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Urgent: How to remove W32.Weird virus?
Reply #20 on: May 11, 2003, 05:08:39 pm
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Thats not how it showed up - a trust friend sent me a file which was supposed to make adjustments to MSN Messanger but instead carried the virus.

That'll teach my not to check files before loading them, heh...

Anyhow - I was able to delete the offending files using the recovery console - but they were right back where they were before when I restarted the computer after that. I've no idea what else is running to cause them to load since as far as I'm concerned once it's deleted thats it, and of course I deleted the program my friend sent me the second I found out about it - so it must be elsewhere....


Ok, there are a number of locations where windows loads programs: Starup programs group, the Registry, and possibly via the scheduler. I'd check the registry first and foremost: local machine / software / microsoft / windows / current version / run or runonce or the like
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Reply #21 on: May 11, 2003, 05:23:41 pm
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Thats not how it showed up - a trust friend sent me a file which was supposed to make adjustments to MSN Messanger but instead carried the virus.


Uhh... What exactly was the file?

*Hopes his brother didn't **** up his computer*
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Reply #22 on: May 11, 2003, 05:39:56 pm
thats one helluwa virus. my friends pc got infected by that sam virus. it infected all of the exe files. my only option at that time was to reinstall the windows. good luck dude
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Reply #23 on: May 12, 2003, 12:29:56 am
do a search of all new files from befor to after the time of infection, see if you can't find anything that should not be there or something that you do not know what it does, try removeing it and see if that fixes it, also do a search of you're registry for the name of the virus or any files you know to be assosiated with it
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Reply #24 on: May 12, 2003, 01:01:13 am
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Reply #25 on: May 12, 2003, 01:06:06 am
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http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.weird.html

Hmm, better idea:
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Good god, are people so lazy they can't even click one hyperlink FFS?

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Reply #26 on: May 12, 2003, 01:34:09 am
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Good god, are people so lazy they can't even click one hyperlink FFS?

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Reply #27 on: May 12, 2003, 03:27:25 am
That'd be great but I tried that already... Managed to delete the offending file that was created too as well as the .INI and .BAK files - but when I restarted Windows they were right there again.

This is looking more and more like a format job :doubt:
 

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Reply #28 on: May 12, 2003, 03:34:43 am
did you get the bad copy of explorer as well
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Reply #29 on: May 12, 2003, 03:46:09 am
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...and using FAT32 has the same potential to destroy your data.


ah? fat32 eats your files? :doubt:
NTFS is ****, it leads only to pb, there's no benefits with using it. NONE. don't talk to me about that security piece of ****.
problem is, you have to use it for large disks. thanx, I would rather have an upgraded fat32 than that crappy format protocol :/
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Reply #30 on: May 12, 2003, 03:59:43 am
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I would rather have an upgraded fat32


It's called "NTFS" :D
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Reply #31 on: May 12, 2003, 04:08:00 am
someone spell out the diferences between them, other than saying fat32 is **** and NTFS is god made protocall
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Reply #32 on: May 12, 2003, 04:31:38 am
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Reply #33 on: May 12, 2003, 04:33:05 am
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That'd be great but I tried that already... Managed to delete the offending file that was created too as well as the .INI and .BAK files - but when I restarted Windows they were right there again.

This is looking more and more like a format job :doubt:


Sorry to hear that you've been infected with taht virus. I was once infected with Love Letter and I had to format most of my drives and lost over 200 MP3s of my favorite music plus FS screenshots and who knows what other files. Now..see I told you that taking FAT32 wasn't a bad idea. Anyway, I hope you'll be able to fix this problem. Good luck.
  

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Reply #34 on: May 12, 2003, 11:14:40 am
Cheers, one format later and the problems solved - I'm actually impressed with Windows XP in that I've had an incredibly low turn around time from when I formatted to when I got everything up and running, with 98 I was looking at a good day lost to installing everything, it's almost complete now after 3 hours and some gaming....heh...

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Reply #35 on: May 12, 2003, 02:11:59 pm
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Cheers, one format later...


Sorry, those words don't go well together... :p
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Reply #36 on: May 13, 2003, 06:54:21 am
Some Advice: Upgrade to Norton AV 2003... the Program has been revised greatly and thus has an updated engine and better virus detection.. but as usual still scan your drive every week - that is something I recommend but don't do myself?:nod:
 

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Reply #37 on: May 13, 2003, 09:45:04 am
Fair enough, my copy was a trial pack anyway - where can I find NA2003?
 

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Reply #38 on: May 13, 2003, 04:12:34 pm
you should know how to find this information by now :p

c'mon, you're supposed to have experience in this :Dq
 

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Reply #39 on: May 13, 2003, 04:22:59 pm
I want a legal copy thankyou ;)
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