Re: virus removal difficulty

From: Jurren Bouman (jubo_at_euronet.nl)
Date: 06/12/04 

Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2004 21:36:03 +0200

peid wrote:

> Ran my usual virus check on friday night and it came up
> with being infected with the w32.blaster virus.
>
> Got the most current fixit tool and ran it. When it had
> finished it said that that there was no blaster virus on
> my system. Ran virus check again and it comes up with
> having the virus still.
>
> I'm completely up to date with the current windows
> security patches as well so I really do not understand
> what is going on.
>
> anyone have any help/ suggestion in regards to this?
> Much apprectiated on any feedback on this.
>
> Peid.

Exactly which anti-virus software do you have installewd and is it
up-to-date?

You might want to do an onlne scan at RAV:
http://www.ravantivirus.com/scan/
or Panda:
http://www.pandasoftware.com/activescan/com/activescan_principal.htm

Tried "Stinger?"
http://vil.nai.com/vil/stinger/

See also:
"What You Should Know About the Blaster Worm"
http://www.microsoft.com/security/incident/blast.mspx 

-- 
Jurren Bouman
MVP Security - Windows
http://www.microsoft.com/security/default.mspx

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