Bloodhound virus

From: Mike Fisher (MikeFisher_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 08/24/05 

Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 16:08:02 -0700

Norton reported i was infected with bloodhound.w32.ep
The symptoms:
my computer wouldn't boot up in regular mode; wall paper replaced with black
screen, task manager says explorer and other programs not responding, task
manager is jammed with dozens of <unknown> or Popuper programs. Get messages
that system resources are dangerously low.
system restore will not work
Started in safe mode -- computer would not recognize cd drive to run norton
antivirus by cd. it would not run norton from the hard drive, giving me an
error message that indicated my wininet.dll file was missing or corrupted.
I changed my boot sequence to start with the cd drive. Norton ran from disk
(2004 edition) for six hours before reporting it had not found any virus.
I tried to get on the internet from safe mode but could not.
Restarted in safe mode and deleted a file i found called popuper.
System now boots but will run almost no programs, including norton or
internet connection or spybot, saying wininet.dll file is missing or
corrputed and, often, that the path to the program's exe file cannot be
found.

Any help would be appreciated.

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