picture.jpg.vbs

[aaaagh]

!!! PLEASE HELP !!!

Resenty more and more (now all) of my pictures(.jpg) have dissapeard. Windows just renames them & puts a .vbs in front of them (ex: aa.jpg -> aa.jpg.vbs) & they become 11.8kB large & renaming them dose NOT help.

Are they lost FOREVER ???
Can i recover them ???
How can i prevent this ???
Is it win2000 or the harddisc ???

(my *.mp3 files get that way too but the original dont get delited. I just get a copy *.mp3.vbs in the same catalog)

!!! PLEASE HELP !!!

 

[btvillarin]

DO A VIRUS CHECK! Those are visual basic script files. I'm not sure what you did, perhaps download and execute some file, but scan for viruses first. There's a free web-based one at the Norton/Symmantec website:

<A HREF="http://at http://security.norton.com/default.asp" target="_new">at http://security.norton.com/default.asp</A>

If it detects nothing, post back.

Problem solved. Please check out <A HREF="http://www.geocities.com/btvillarin/" target="_new">My Website</A>.

 

[Smilin]

Sounds like the badtrans.B virus.

You are a tard for getting it. You are suffering enough having to deal with it so I won't go on...

 

[btvillarin]

From reading the details on the W32.Badtrans.B@mm virus, it doesn't seem like it's that one, because it's adding .pif and .scr extensions, not .vbs.

<A HREF="http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.badtrans.b@mm.html" target="_new">http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.badtrans.b@mm.html</A>

Problem solved. Please check out <A HREF="http://www.geocities.com/btvillarin/" target="_new">My Website</A>.