Digital Subscriber Line Heads Up - SBC Yahoo! DSL Installer CD file wiped out my drive

> I have just spent a week cleaning, reformating, reloading & tuning
> Win2KPro/SP4 on one of my laptops. Finally got the desktops like I
> wanted them, DSL was working great (without any SBC Yahoo software on
> the drive), VNC was working great, etc., and then I made the error of
> poking around on the SBC/Y DSL installation CD that I received on April
> 15th.
>
> In that I had been working with VNC and RealVNC, I noticed the following
> on the CD:
>
> E:SetupSSTDataVNCMotVNC.exe
>
> I recall seeing something about MotVNC and that it used tightVNC, so I
> thought cool, I'll fire up the file and see what is in it. Clicked on
> the file and allowed it to install into its directory. In that directory
> it installed WinVNC, Putty & several other files. So far so good.
> Fired up WinVNC, and that seemed to work just fine. Then I noticed in
> the installation directory a file named VNCClean.exe. Like a fool I
> clicked on the file... and the rest is history.
>
> VNCClean.exe started up, and the next thing I know the drive is going
> crazy, the icons start disappearing off of the desktop, running programs
> stop and the laptop acts as if it's going into shutdown mode. I powered
> off, and what I had left was about 10% of my WINNT directory, some left
> over remnents of a few other directories, and nearly 4Gb free space of a
> 4Gb+ drive. Win2KP recovery tried to work, but couldn't find enough
> left over to recover.
>
> To make a long story short; I low level partitioned & formated the disk
> and am now in the process of reloading Win2KP and rebuilding the system.
>
> The ONLY good thing about all of this is that I was using the laptop
> to test and learn the basics of Win2KP. So I didn't actually have any
> really valuable data on it, yet -- just the time & effort of loading
> normal working programs, AV's, firewall, etc., and getting it tuned to
> the way I wanted it.
>
> So Heads Up: whatever you do, DON'T run the VNCClean.exe file that gets
> extracted from the MotVNC.exe file, and yes, I should have known better
> than to run an untrusted file. Better yet, take the SBC/Yahoo Installer
> CD and mix it in with all of the AOL CD coasters, or use it as frisbee...
>
>
>

> Thanks for the heads-up. I only found one link for VNCClean.exe and none for
> MotVNC.exe.
>
> http://www.advantig.com/software.html
> Scroll down to VNCClean.exe
>
> Wonder IF it is the same file...............
>