Re: Question about CTX and a virus on our server

L C wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Not an Oracle person so I apologize if this is the wrong group or my
> question doesn't make sense, but we have an Oracle server that got a couple
> of viruses on it - Backdoor Trojan, IRC. This caused our CTX not to start.
> We cleaned the viruses and it still will not start.
>
> We start CTX by using the following batch file:
>
> cd C:\Oracle\Ora92\bin
> ctxsrv.exe -user ctxsys/ctxsys_at_Database1
>
> We get a quick message that flashes something about authentication and
> listener
>
> We have Oracle 9i on a 2003 Advanced server
>
> Any thoughts as to what I could try.
>
> Thanks Larry C

Many. And the first is to get Windows off of any Oracle server. For that matter to get it off any server, Oracle or otherwise, used for a critical business process. All the expensive firewalls and virus checkers in the world have not even protected Microsoft itself. How do you expect to do better than they have?

That said ... you didn't provide an error message so no help is possible. You need to read the alert log (in the bdump directory) and all of the full error message (including text) and then provide them here.

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