Re: How to kill of Win32Trojan once and for all?

From: relic (reply.to_at_newsgroup.com)
Date: 08/10/03


Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2003 15:13:33 GMT


©N„ikuli, Willićm© wrote:
> This was what happened, then I had to reinstall windows:
> http://tinyurl.com/jkgu
>
> However, even right now, stuff is still happening:
>
> Every 48 hours or so, my computer gives me a message that it has to
> shut-down, and then it counts down and restarts automatically. This
> is after formatting my hard-drive and reinstalling windows. This was
> the "infant" stage of the virus before, until the computer started
> freezing as soon as I started it.
>
> Avast Anti-Virus didn't detect anything, even during booting.
>
> What is this thing, where is it, and how do I kill it off once and
> for all?
>
> Interstingly, when I do ctrl-alt-delete, the tasks/processes log
> doesn't come up.

1. Get rid of KaZaA.
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.spybot.worm.html
2. Try removing as above, or Clean Install.
3. Get a /good/ AV.
http://www.virusbtn.com/vb100/archives/tests.xml?200306
4. Get a good Firewall.
http://www.firewallguide.com/index.htm

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