Re: Unremovable viruses-help!!

From: Bill Stevenson (falsename_at_supanet.com)
Date: 11/07/05 

Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2005 10:46:01 -0800

David
Apologies for the delay in replying, however I have now had a chance to
install and run the various suggestions received and am very pleased to
report that all the troublesome problems seem to have been overcome - many
thanks for your help
regards 

-- 
Bill Stevenson
"David H. Lipman" wrote:
> From: "Bill Stevenson" <falsename@supanet.com>
> 
> | On running Norton SystemWorks the following are detected but cannot be fixed,
> | quarantined or deleted
> | MediaGateway.exe - Adware.MediaPass
> | Update-sp2.html - Adware.CDT
> | Update-sp3.html - Adware.CDT
> | Update-sp5.html Adware.Istbar
> | Vidctrl.exe - Trojan.LowZones
> | Ra.req - Trojan.LowZones!req
> | y.exe - Trojan.LowZones
> | And on Microsoft AntiSpyware
> | WindUpdates (Browser Plug-in) and WindUpdates Media.Access (Adware)
> | My computer clock is often turned back by 13 hours - related??
> | Many thanks in anticipation!!
> | -- 
> | Bill Stevenson
> 
> For non-viral malware...
> 
> Please download, install and update the following software...
> 
> Ad-aware SE v1.06
> http://www.lavasoft.de/
> http://www.lavasoftusa.com/
> 
> SpyBot Search and Destroy v1.4
> http://security.kolla.de/
> 
> After the software is updated, I suggest scanning the system in Safe Mode.
> 
> I also suggest downloading, installing and updating BHODemon for any Browser Helper Objects
> that may be on the PC.
> 
> BHODemon
> http://www.definitivesolutions.com/bhodemon.htm
> 
> For viral malware...
> 
> 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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