Website woes
 

Okay, I use FP 2002 for my website, it's not optimal, but it's what I use. I encrypt the site using webcryptpro. I use firefox as my browser. I used to use McAfee as my antivirus/firewall/etc. and just installed the full version of AVG. Other than that, no changes to my PC from before my vacation. No troubles, up until last night.

I made some updates to the site and was preparing to encrypt the pages before uploading. Webcrypt started to encrypt and I get an error message about permissions. I close it down, go back to FP and try to open the page that had a problem. FP will now not open the page as it is now a firefox document and I need to adjust the permissions. Two pages are now not editable or openable in FP due to this malarky. The weird thing is, neither of those pages was edited or changed in any way.

I'm not sure where to start, well, I did start by posting to a FP board at the microsoft site. But, jeez, what could cause this to happen? All was good before I was on vacation, I did updates a few days before I left. I have no idea how to fix this and will be very annoyed if I have to go back and now recreate the whole damn thing in some new WYSIWYG software.

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr:mad:

What is the error message?

I'll have to get that when I get home. I'll do a print screen later today.

Well, well, well, it appears that 2 of the files have a virus (where that came from, don't ask me!)

Hijacker.Small.jf

So, what AVG does is lock the file so I can't open it, it moves it to the "virus vault" where I tell it to heal it. I instruct AVG to retore the file, it does, still locked with the virus apparently.

Any suggestions what to do next? How can I clean the file and restore it if AVG won't?

Interesting that nothing like this ever turned up with free AVG and McAfee and all the other scans I've run. So, I guess that person I thought was a nutball who said her virus puppy screamed when she visited my site, was right. Sue me!

naplam.

ok, no useful ideas yet. But I'll try to think of something useful.

Would leaving the file in the vault and restoring it from a backup be an option?

I tried that, here's the info on it

Attachment 263

and the original message from Front Page when I try to open the files in there (which I now know are locked)

Attachment 262

Wow, you're screwed.

But then again, I don't know what I am talking about.

Well, for jollies (not really) I tried to encrypt a dummy file, that was one that would open in FP. The moment the encrypting software started, up pops the threat message, so I guess I'm just not encrypting anything now. It must be something either buggy between avg and the encryption software, or the encrypting software has a virus in it.

So yeah Kevy, I'm screwed

I'm currently compiling Quanta+ ... it's an open source web editor that's supposed to be great. I don't think it'll work on windows, though - just linux and unix (and mac, because it's unix-based). I've heard really good things about KompoZer, though, which I believe will work on the windows platform. If you're brave, you might want to dump FP and give it a shot...