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Posted by meneedit on Feb-25-2004 04:09:

nasty virus

At the moment im trying to remove a nasty-ass virus off this chicks computer.

now, this particular virus closes folders and other windows not long after you open them.

I thought I was just going to be able to go around to her house and do the old "ad-aware routine" and then it would be good as new

no such luck

the virus can't close ad-aware, which is a good thing. but at the same time ad-aware cant seem to remove the gators that it finds. every time we reboot the gators are back as if ad-aware hasn't touched them.

So anyway, I went to work the other day and my mate suggested a virus checker that runs in dos called f-prot (www.f-prot.com)

got it, updated it, ran it, nothing. It didnt find a single thing. I suppose that is because of the fact that it doesnt scan the registry and that is where the gators are hiding.

I can't open the registry and delete the gator-keys because of the fact that it closes the registry as well.

This pain-in-the-ass virus just seems to close all the important stuff.

so the last resort was to goto MSconfig and check out whats happening at startup. Well.... the mother-focker closes MSconfig as well. However, I did manage to keep it open long enough to notice 2 unlabeled checkboxes that were ticked.

sounds like really bad spyware to me.

long story short she is moving out on friday but I need to go around to her house tonight and fix it.

maybe someone has come across something similar?

help would be sooooo appreciated

thanx

Posted by Turbonium on Feb-25-2004 04:32:

Can you not open Task Manager and REALLY REALLY FAST locate the thing(s) and End Task it?

Posted by 3jaz on Feb-25-2004 04:45:

Format

if only i could do the same for my life ...HA!

Posted by Matt Jay on Feb-25-2004 04:45:

Ad-aware removes spyware, not viruses.

try this -

www.housecall.antivirus.com

Posted by meneedit on Feb-25-2004 05:03:

quote:
Originally posted by Turbonium
Can you not open Task Manager and REALLY REALLY FAST locate the thing(s) and End Task it?

oh yeah I forgot to mention that.

It would be so easy to do that in 98 but with XP the stupid wankers have divided it into applications and processes. the problem with this is that the ones in processes go by the filenames (sooo fucking stupid) so because they go by filenames I have no idea what is what.

there was a process called soap.exe but I dont even know if that is a virus or not. Either way it doesn't leave you with much time to end a process

Posted by caddyshack on Feb-25-2004 05:14:

i had that same little bitch of a virus too, until last sunday when i reformatted my HD. twas overkill but it did the trick..

Posted by montie on Feb-25-2004 05:19:

Re: nasty virus

flipper died a natural death, he caught a nasty virus

Posted by Matt Jay on Feb-25-2004 05:28:

quote:
Originally posted by meneedit
there was a process called soap.exe but I dont even know if that is a virus or not

http://www.liutilities.com/products...sslibrary/soap/

Posted by Dj Dovla on Feb-25-2004 08:49:

get a norton antivirus .... after your format ,, and then you wont be bugged by any viruses

Posted by KilldaDJ on Feb-25-2004 18:35:

edit ur win.ini file (i think) as it contains the startup infomation, boot info etc

just remove the lines of where the exe is, then quarintine the little shit with mcafee or norton.

Posted by NeoBizzaro on Feb-25-2004 19:02:

You could try booting it into safe mode. If it does load on startup then you should be able to open stuff up in safe mode and remove the program from startup using msconfig.

Posted by Turbonium on Feb-25-2004 21:36:

quote:
Originally posted by meneedit
oh yeah I forgot to mention that.

It would be so easy to do that in 98 but with XP the stupid wankers have divided it into applications and processes. the problem with this is that the ones in processes go by the filenames (sooo fucking stupid) so because they go by filenames I have no idea what is what.

there was a process called soap.exe but I dont even know if that is a virus or not. Either way it doesn't leave you with much time to end a process

End Task everything (really fast, once again). Windows should still run (sort of). Then go on Panda Scan or something

Posted by meneedit on Feb-25-2004 22:23:

thanks to all of you for your help

unfortunately formatting was the only choice in the end

but thanks for helping guys i'll keep note of what you said for next time.

I wasnt able to format the HD myself but she is taking it down to my friends shop.

Shit, I really thought that I actually knew how to format a hard drive until last night

thanks again