::Simple Linux Program::

XxAndyxX · 06-06-2003, 11:18 PM

I just need to make a simple program that goes through your whole hard drive and deletes any files with .eml and .nws extensions... Can anyone give me any pointers?
-Thanks
Andy

rch · 06-07-2003, 12:32 AM

Of course I can
first do
cd /
then
find . -name "*.[en][mw][ls]" -type f -exec rm -f {} \; 2>/dev/null

Incidentally check the spaces!You may end up deleting everything.

Robert0380 · 06-07-2003, 03:08 AM

.eml....reminds me of the nimda virus.

rch · 06-07-2003, 04:51 AM

Nimda?
Now what is that?

thebear · 06-07-2003, 08:38 AM

Nimda was one of those worms that caused worldwide havoc (right up there with I Luv U, and Code Red)

XxAndyxX · 06-07-2003, 10:30 AM

Yeah, you're right I have the Nimda virus and I've had it for a while and can't seem to get ride of it. I can only isolate it... Any tips on getting rid of it? Like do you think this program would get rid of it?
Thanks
-Andy

Edward78 · 06-07-2003, 01:54 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by XxAndyxX
Yeah, you're right I have the Nimda virus and I've had it for a while and can't seem to get ride of it. I can only isolate it... Any tips on getting rid of it? Like do you think this program would get rid of it?
Thanks
-Andy

Do you have a virus scenner? Try www.sarc.com

XxAndyxX · 06-07-2003, 02:38 PM

Yeah, I have a virus scanner on all my client computer (which are all clean) the virus lies in my RedHat 8.0 server... Which the fix given to me from Norton
"http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.nimda.e@mm.removal.tool.html" does not support linux.... It doesn't even support novel.

BryanMC · 06-07-2003, 10:33 PM

wasn't nimbda = code red??

i may be wrong....

rch · 06-07-2003, 11:05 PM

Did you tried
cd /
then
find . -name "*.[en][mw][ls]" -type f -exec rm -f {} \; 2>/dev/null
(mount your windows partition before using the command, and hope that it is fat32)

XxAndyxX · 06-09-2003, 09:42 AM

Yes, that worked. It got rid of files with .eml and .nws extensions thanks a lot for the help guys.

Edward78 · 06-09-2003, 11:48 AM

I thought there was no linux viruses. Why don't they make a linux virus scanner to scan linux for viruses?

Robert0380 · 06-09-2003, 03:37 PM

they have them avaiable (id post a name or a link but i dont know what they are called, i forgot).

Robert0380 · 06-09-2003, 03:39 PM

WHOA WHOA WHOA....

NIMDA AND CODE RED ONLY AFFECT WINDOWS MACHINES!!!

this thread is misleading.

XxAndyxX · 06-09-2003, 03:46 PM

To clear things up....

I had one of my machines on my network infected with the Nimda virus. That computer was mapped to my server's root and everything... So it got into my server through the Window's client. Then when another client connected to the server it spread... But now I have all my clients cleaned out. I wanted to delete the virus out of my server too.