Re: Virus?
From: Moose (gdewit79_at_rogers.com)
Date: 10/30/05
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Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2005 21:55:32 -0400
I tried running that program and, it will allow me to download a couple of
the programs (Sophos and Kaspersky). I went through the steps in the help
file and, when the program attempted to scan my hard drive, it just shut the
program itself down. As for rebooting into safe mode, I cannot seem to be
able to do it.
"David H. Lipman" <DLipman~nospam~@Verizon.Net> wrote in message
news:O%2394jBP3FHA.2432@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> From: "Moose" <gdewit79@rogers.com>
>
> | The other night, while I was chatting on MSN Messenger, I had a
> conversation
> | window pop up from a friend. The conversation states something along
> the
> | lines of:
> |
> | Wow, is this really you?
> |
> | There was a link and, in my stupidity, I clicked on the link. A program
> | loaded to my computer and now, I am unable to log into MSN Messenger, or
> | retrieve my Hotmail account via the Hotmail website. It also appears
> that
> | this program shut off my virus scanner (I have Norton), and will not
> allow
> | me to conduct a system scan. I tried to download AVG from their website
> (it
> | was recommended by a guy from work), and I cannot get onto the website.
> All
> | I receive when I do try is something about the page being unavailable.
> |
> | A friend told me to check the processes my computer is running and, to
> look
> | for SVCHOST.EXE, which I have 5 occurences of this particular file
> running
> | on my computer. I tried to shut down one of these processes, and my
> | computer gave me 55 seconds to save all unsaved work and proceeded to
> shut
> | my computer down.
> |
> | Any suggestions on how I can get this virus off my computer?
> |
>
>
> Download MULTI_AV.EXE from the URL --
> http://www.ik-cs.com/programs/virtools/Multi_AV.exe
>
> It is a self-extracting ZIP file that contains the Kixtart Script
> Interpreter {
> http://kixtart.org Kixtart is CareWare } 4 batch files, 6 Kixtart scripts,
> one Link
> (.LNK) file, a PDF instruction file and two utilities; UNZIP.EXE and
> WGET.EXE. It will
> simplify the process of using; Sophos, Trend, Kaspersky and McAfee Anti
> Virus Command
> Line Scanners to remove viruses, Trojans and various other malware.
>
> C:\AV-CLS\StartMenu.BAT -- { or Double-click on 'Start Menu' in C:\AV-CLS}
> This will bring up the initial menu of choices and should be executed in
> Normal Mode.
> This way all the components can be downloaded from each AV vendor's web
> site.
> The choices are; Sophos, Trend, McAfee, Kaspersky, Exit this menu and
> Reboot the PC.
>
> You can choose to go to each menu item and just download the needed files
> or you can
> download the files and perform a scan in Normal Mode. Once you have
> downloaded the files
> needed for each scanner you want to use, you should reboot the PC into
> Safe Mode [F8 key
> during boot] and re-run the menu again and choose which scanner you want
> to run in Safe
> Mode. It is suggested to run the scanners in both Safe Mode and Normal
> Mode.
>
> When the menu is displayed hitting 'H' or 'h' will bring up a more
> comprehensive PDF help
> file.
>
> To use this utility, perform the following...
> Execute; Multi_AV.exe { Note: You must use the default folder C:\AV-CLS }
> Choose; Unzip
> Choose; Close
>
> Execute; C:\AV-CLS\StartMenu.BAT
> { or Double-click on 'Start Menu' in C:\AV-CLS }
>
> NOTE: You may have to disable your software FireWall or allow WGET.EXE to
> go through your
> FireWall to allow it to download the needed AV vendor related files.
>
> * * * Please report back your results * * *
>
>
> --
> Dave
> http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
> http://www.ik-cs.com/got-a-virus.htm
>
>
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