Re: w32.hllw.gaobot.gen

From: Sarah (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 03/01/04


Date: Sun, 29 Feb 2004 22:02:26 -0800

tommy lee writes:
>-----Original Message-----
>Formerly I was having a problem where my computer would
>start rebooting by itself. I did an online virus
scanning
>from the symantec website and the virus gaobot.gen was
>found. I downloaded the removal tool and ran it and it
>showed that it cleaned the virus. I then bought a
>Symantec Antivirus 2004 but when I open the program, it
>just never "appears" on the screen. I redid an online
>scanning and it says that the virus is still there. I
ran
>the removal tool again but it says that there is no
>virus. Following the instructions on the symantec
website
>to manually remove the virus, I rebooted into safe mode,
>disable the system restore, managed to open the symantec
>antivirus and ran a scanning. It found no virus. Any
idea
>anyone?
>
>Thanks.

     Try another vendor - Trend has a free online scan
named Housecall:
http://housecall.trendmicro.com/housecall/start_corp.asp
     Choose to remove any infection found.

-Sarah
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