Help needed with possibel Cascade virus

rob_100 · 10-13-2009, 05:57 AM

Hello, I really hope you can help I have a computer network which has 2 of the desktops on it which may be infected with a version of the cascade virus. I'm not sure how it got onto the pc's as I don't know what users are up to when I'm not around, although it could have been something I unwittingly did as well.

Someone was using the main server pc and Adobe Illustrator which wouldnt save a file on the server pc (I use one pc as a server containing files) giving a "Runtime error! ..." and then the program just kept shutting itself down.

I tried to open the same file from the server pc on another desktop on the network and when I opened the same file in illustrator the whole screen started to flash aliong with the save dialogue box and then to my horror some of the illustrator text began to drop to the bottom of the screen. In terror I instantly shut down both pc's at the psu's and then disconnected them from the network. From a search it seems I have a version of the Cascade virus Cascade.1701.A which supposedly lives in the "wild", which sounds almost AI ish and fun if it wasn't going about destroying my files and network.

I've turned on the desktop which showed the text dropping down the page, I'm not sure if it stayed at the bottom of the screen as I turned it off so quickly. I'm hoping since I was using a file from the main pc then this desktop wont actaully be infected and only the main pc with the files on it will be in trouble, is that a fair assumption? Also how can I get rid of the virus if it is indeed a version of the cascade virus? Just wipe the main pc and build it back up again? Its a new pc so I could do this in a day or two and it may beat trying to solve the virus directly, although I suppose I then should reinstall the other desktop too just in case. Any help will be extremely welcome.

Rob

Also the second desktop isn't showing any other signs of a virus, only in illustrator from that one server pc file ...so far.
Rob

rob_100 · 10-14-2009, 03:43 AM

Hey guys, no one has any ideas what this virus can be then? Now some of the office files aren't opening. I'm running more scans today other than the avg one I already run hopefilly it will tell me more, I just hope its not some dodgy bios virus. The desktop without the files on it has had avg, S&D and adaware and spyware terminator scans run on it all to no avail although even so it seems to be running fine now even in illustrator so I think it must be just a file virus, does anyone have any ideas at all??

rob_100 · 10-16-2009, 07:56 AM

Right ran an absolute load of virus scans on the server pc and nothing was found - Im going to wipe it and start again. Strange how the virus seems to have gone, ominous really, perhaps its hiding to reactivate at a later date, well with a HDD wipe it should nip it in the booty unless I have a bios virus...

10-13-2009, 05:57 AM	#1 (permalink)
rob_100 Registered User Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 5 OS: XP SP3	Help needed with possibel Cascade virus Hello, I really hope you can help I have a computer network which has 2 of the desktops on it which may be infected with a version of the cascade virus. I'm not sure how it got onto the pc's as I don't know what users are up to when I'm not around, although it could have been something I unwittingly did as well. Someone was using the main server pc and Adobe Illustrator which wouldnt save a file on the server pc (I use one pc as a server containing files) giving a "Runtime error! ..." and then the program just kept shutting itself down. I tried to open the same file from the server pc on another desktop on the network and when I opened the same file in illustrator the whole screen started to flash aliong with the save dialogue box and then to my horror some of the illustrator text began to drop to the bottom of the screen. In terror I instantly shut down both pc's at the psu's and then disconnected them from the network. From a search it seems I have a version of the Cascade virus Cascade.1701.A which supposedly lives in the "wild", which sounds almost AI ish and fun if it wasn't going about destroying my files and network. I've turned on the desktop which showed the text dropping down the page, I'm not sure if it stayed at the bottom of the screen as I turned it off so quickly. I'm hoping since I was using a file from the main pc then this desktop wont actaully be infected and only the main pc with the files on it will be in trouble, is that a fair assumption? Also how can I get rid of the virus if it is indeed a version of the cascade virus? Just wipe the main pc and build it back up again? Its a new pc so I could do this in a day or two and it may beat trying to solve the virus directly, although I suppose I then should reinstall the other desktop too just in case. Any help will be extremely welcome. Rob Also the second desktop isn't showing any other signs of a virus, only in illustrator from that one server pc file ...so far. Rob

10-14-2009, 03:43 AM	#2 (permalink)
rob_100 Registered User Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 5 OS: XP SP3	Re: Help needed with possibel Cascade virus Hey guys, no one has any ideas what this virus can be then? Now some of the office files aren't opening. I'm running more scans today other than the avg one I already run hopefilly it will tell me more, I just hope its not some dodgy bios virus. The desktop without the files on it has had avg, S&D and adaware and spyware terminator scans run on it all to no avail although even so it seems to be running fine now even in illustrator so I think it must be just a file virus, does anyone have any ideas at all??

10-16-2009, 07:56 AM	#3 (permalink)
rob_100 Registered User Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 5 OS: XP SP3	Re: Help needed with possibel Cascade virus Right ran an absolute load of virus scans on the server pc and nothing was found - Im going to wipe it and start again. Strange how the virus seems to have gone, ominous really, perhaps its hiding to reactivate at a later date, well with a HDD wipe it should nip it in the booty unless I have a bios virus...