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Happy Birthday Virus Hit windows

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manish646
manish646 Original post #1
Nov 21, 2008 at 2:30 PM
This time again a virus hit windows.I would like it to call the happy birthday virus.This virus is called Happy birthday virus because it displays a message happy birthday again and again before crashing your system.
This is a pretty strong virus with the feature that this virus is a strong boot sector Virus. Once this virus activates it will surely going to change the boot sector of your windows operating system. It deletes the boot loader NTLDR file of the windows and rest you all knows what is going to happen.
Windows it will not be able to start.
SO all you windows geeks try to avoid this virus.
Above all the need of formatting the disks will arise so make sure that you save your data in advance in any secure drive.
This virus is coming via pen drives and may also come through network as I am not able to see all its capabilities.
All the computer geeks are required to submit their posts and expierience with this new virus and also please notify any technique to avoid this virus.
Happy Birthday is going to chnage the windows computing for sometime so make sure that you not insert pen drives without proper scaning and knowledge.
NucleusKore
Nov 21, 2008 at 7:17 PM
Any technical references?
red_devil
Nov 21, 2008 at 8:56 PM
didn't find a lot of information for this virus on google...
Kl@w-24
Kl@w-24 #5
Nov 21, 2008 at 9:05 PM
Fake news, methinks. Just for spreading FUD.
comp@ddict
Nov 21, 2008 at 9:27 PM
SOme guy is creating many many users and bumping old(I mean it) threads

Maybe this is another one doing the same KIND of thing
krishnandu.sarkar
Nov 21, 2008 at 10:55 PM
One of my frieinds computer is already got affectd with this.........

a HAPPY BIRTHDAY msg is always thr in d screen.........

how to get rid of this virus..........he use AVG8....n updates regularly...........
avg8 is unable 2 detect d virus...........

so.....plz help........
NucleusKore
Nov 21, 2008 at 11:02 PM
One of my frieinds computer is already got affectd with this.........

a HAPPY BIRTHDAY msg is always thr in d screen.........

how to get rid of this virus..........he use AVG8....n updates regularly...........
avg8 is unable 2 detect d virus...........

so.....plz help........


*www.f-secure.com/v-descs/birthday.shtml
NIGHTMARE
Nov 22, 2008 at 12:34 AM
happy birth day to happy birthday virus
manish646
manish646 #10
Nov 26, 2008 at 12:51 PM
the most impaortant thing about that virus is that it does not affect windows vista
only xp
M
mrintech #11
Nov 27, 2008 at 1:33 PM
*www.spacepimping.com/graphics/myspace-happy-birthday-graphics/HappyBirthday62.jpg
virus_killer
Nov 27, 2008 at 2:02 PM
the most impaortant thing about that virus is that it does not affect windows vista
only xp

and may i ask you HOW ? How can you say that it wont affect vista? am using vista though, and i trust its security.
M
mrintech #14
Nov 27, 2008 at 2:55 PM
+1 :D
manish646
manish646 #15
Nov 27, 2008 at 3:41 PM
hi guys i am working at the netwrok where i have to deal with lopts of computers and i came to know that this happy birthday virus only attacks the ntldr file that is only present in the windows xp not in vista so surely vista remains unaffected
I have seen a vista running happy birthday but that remain unaffected after the restart. Thus the VISTA IS MUCH MORE SECURE THAN XP.
keith_j_snyder2
Nov 28, 2008 at 12:51 AM
almost 5 years back i 've seen the same kind of the virus displaying on screen where u click anything, it just popped on the screen. I hope u aren't talking about that!