Is my system infected by VIRUS?

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Dear all,

I am pretty much confused about my system. When I installed windows in my system and connected to internet, lot of malwares were detected by the antivirus. Same happens even after repeated format(complete format) of my hard drive. I have BSNL EVDO connection.In order to get rid of this problem, I decided to migrate to openSUSE. OS installation was smooth and the system was working absolutely fine. But when I connected EVDO, all the nightmare stuffs started happening.

Mouse cursor moves rapidly and randomly on the screen without anyone touching the mouse and random apps get clicked and opened. I am not able to open google and its other sites like gmail, orkut etc. Is it because of any error in my system or of course, there are only countable viruses for Linux systems and is it for virus or any other malicious programs in my system?

Please help me regarding this matter as it is annoying without google.

Thank you

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To me this reads to be a wireless mouse with the battery almost gone.

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I’ve run into a virus in windows where the virus created it’s own ‘sliver’ of a partition, thus reformatting the OS partition had no effect…it was caught in Gparted while reviewing partitions. This on my brother pc, not mine, I don’t get viruses…haha :sarcastic:

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Hi,

@oldcpu : I have a wired mouse. Still the problem not solved.

@ joutlan : Please can you tell me how to identify the partition created by virus. I deleted all logical drives and cleaned up the hard drive completely. Still the same problem in my comp. Also please let me know how to get rid of that virus.

Thank you

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When I had this problem under Linux is was a hardware issue. I can’t remember what I did to fix it though. Sorry I can’t remember.
Its hardware.

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A Windows virus couldn’t be executed in Linux, except maybe through WINE. Are you connecting through a router? Are you encrypted? If this only happens when you are connected, it might be better addressed in the Network/Internet forum.

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On Fri, 26 Mar 2010 02:46:01 GMT, pramodbhat <pramodbhat@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> wrote:

>
>Hi,
>
>@oldcpu : I have a wired mouse. Still the problem not solved.
>
>@ joutlan : Please can you tell me how to identify the partition
>created by virus. I deleted all logical drives and cleaned up the hard
>drive completely. Still the same problem in my comp. Also please let me
>know how to get rid of that virus.
>
>Thank you

Well i suppose that you could use dd /dev/zero /dev/<your_disk> with
appropriate command parameters so that it stops. Note that you want
to address the whole drive e.g. /dev/sda. Of course all partitions
and the MBR get destroyed by this, but the disk should be clean.

Study up on dd BEFORE using.

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A few things spring to mind:
Have you configured the huawei modem correctly?
Are you using a legitimate copy of windows and not a pirate version. (Some pirate versions are dodgy)
If you eject the card, does everything work correctly?

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I’ve also seen this problem with a poor quality KVM switch … ie once again, hardware.

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Dear All,

I have BSNL EVDO card to connect to internet and have a legal version of windows XP professional version . I do not use any other hardware than a EVDO data card to connect to internet. May be I need to check with my mouse. But is there a possibility of getting viruses, malwares or spywares in Linux(openSUSE 11.1). If so is there any antivirus program specially for openSUSE? Please clarify my doubt.

Thank you

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But is there a possibility of getting viruses, malwares or spywares in Linux(openSUSE 11.1). If so is there any antivirus program specially for openSUSE? Please clarify my doubt.

I never used Windows, so I am anything but an expert in viruses and likewise issues - could you explain what gives you the idea your system is infected? Basically there are no working viruses for Linux.

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… except the infamous “keyboard virus” (aka PEBKAC), which is very wide spread amongst all OSes.

(scnr)

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When you remove the card does everything work? If so, then there is a conflict somewhere with the card.
Most linux scanners are for windows software that is probably stored on the file or mail server.
Linux doesn’t really suffer from viruses. It could be that you have some strange javascript from a website that is messing it up.
Have you updated the opensuse install since installation?

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I only have google to go on but a quick google shows how to do this for windows.

exploit BSNL EVDO - Google Search

Now my limited understanding is your joining a local network in the 10.* range, now whether this could be used as you say you’re seeing on linux I wouldn’t like to guess. Though in my limited understanding it would require bad passwords or a mis-configured firewall.

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Viruses from windows not run in linux I believe that you have a hardware issue

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Looks to me like a dodgy BSNL EVDO card or hardware conflict or missaligned card set-up.

As for a Virus in Linux this is only theoretically possible if you run as root (never do this) and assign all things to root (again never do this). For a Virus to run in Linux, someone would have to write it to reference a specific Linux architecture, call Linux specific modules, have the ability to run as root, have the ability to change it’s ownership to root with execute rights. There are so many different things it would need to do that it’s not worth anyones while since a simple security stops it completely.

Where you may have concern, if you go to a site and download something you want for windose and move the file to your windose partition, then if it’s infected and you then try to use it in Windose you guessed it! There is a Virus cleaner for Linux that checks files destined for windose so that infected ones can be cleaned or avoided but the name eludes me.