Re: Task manager closes automatically etc

From: Kaylene aka Taurarian (taurarianREMOVECAPS_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 07/28/04 

Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 20:38:50 +1000

http://www.dougknox.com/xp/utils/xp_emerutils.htm
Creates usable copies of REGEDIT, MSCONFIG and Task Manager

You could be infected with one of these worms:

W32.Spybot.Worm
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.spybot.worm.html
W32.Klez.Worm
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.klez.gen@mm.html
W32.Yaha.Worm
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.yaha.e@mm.html

These viruses terminate Regedit.exe and taskmgr.exe
W32.HLLW.Kefy:
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.hllw.kefy.html
W32.HLLW.Cydog@mm:
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.hllw.cydog@mm.html
Backdoor.IRC.Yoink.A:
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/backdoor.irc.yoink.a.html
Backdoor.Volac.dr:
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/backdoor.volac.dr.html
W32.Kwbot.R.Worm:
http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.kwbot.r.worm.html

These viruses delete the Regedit.exe, Regedt32.exe, Msconfig.exe, Taskmgr.exe
W32.Petch.B:
http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.petch.b.html
W32.HLLW.Maax.B@mm:
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.hllw.maax.b@mm.html

Perhaps an online security/virus check
Symantec
http://security.norton.com/sscv6/default.asp?langid=ie&venid=sym
Trend Micro House Call:
http://housecall.trendmicro.com/
Panda ActiveScan;
http://www.pandasoftware.com/activescan/com/activescan_principal.htm
McAfee FreeScan:
http://us.mcafee.com/root/mfs/default.asp
Kaspersky Labs On-line Virus Checker:
http://www.kaspersky.com/remoteviruschk.html
BitDefender Online Scan:
http://www.bitdefender.com/scan/licence.php

"Mike" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:577501c47473$50e9b0d0$a601280a@phx.gbl...
> This description of my problem is very vague i admit
> mainly due to the problems it causes ..
>
> my computer is currently running xp and for some reason
> restarted itself last night .. now when it starts not only
> does AVG virus killer not load into memory and wont open
> but every time i open task manager to see whats running it
> closes again right away.
>
> I did see two virus warnings about worms before it
> restarted but now since i cant open AVG i cant clean it,
> ive tried using housecall from Trend but it gets so far
> downloading the current virus definitions and then says it
> encountered an error.
>
> anyone help with me with this ? .. i know its going to
> frustrate me already.

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