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From: "worriedsickaboutcom" <worriedsickaboutcom@discussions.microsoft.com>
| i am almost positive i have a serious virus. i have already downloaded
| microsoft antispware and ad-aware SE personal, but nothing is working. PLEASE
| HELP!
| here is an entire list of problems:
|
| my homepage is changed to about: blank, a search engine.
| adult links / search sites have been added to my favorites
| random words on all-text websites turn into links
| i have several "spyware remover" popups
| i cannot use AOL instant messenger, it freezes whever i send/ receive an IM
|
| my mozilla firefox is not affected, but this is also slowing down my system.
| i am still able to use internet explorer.
|
| please help.
This could be a Browser Helper Object (BHO).
Use BHODemon --
http://www.definitivesolutions.com/bhodemon.htm
I aslo suggest SpyBot Search and Destroy v1.4 -- http://security.kolla.de/
In case it is a virus then perform the following...
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 } three batch files, five 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 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, Exit the 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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