And yet Leolo says that his servers were running 2000. Does this mean that his server admins removed a layer of security by giving everyone admin-level access (that wasn't there by default)? I am not sure if I undertood your question correctly, so I wiil try to answer it in two ways. If we are …

Wasn't referring to the Debugger/Attachment portion of the thread, but rather the security levels within the OS. XP, by default, treats everyone as an Administrator. You are absolutely right. This means there are a lot of potencial security threats on XP that would not impact a regular user on NT …

Thanks a lot for all this info! It's true that their tool is able to identify and terminate the virus (it worked for me perfectly). But I wonder how did they do it? I believe this virus uses the security flaw to attach to some process that is running with a security context from Administrator or …

Odd. I thought this security issue was only on XP, due to Microsoft not wanting a support nightmare due to all the older programs that presume they will have admin-level access. Kind of figured NT/2000 would still be secure due to them not being aimed at the "general consumer". Actually, the …

Since all our computers were running Windows 2000, I wondered how in the world can a virus infect all active processes?? Weren't NT-based systems supposed to protect running processes from meddling with each other? How can I remove the virus from memory without killing all running processes?? I …