Virus help needed
#1
Hi, I have a virus that is driving me mad!!!
The virus is W95/CIH.1003 and attaches itself to any .exe files that are run whilst it is resident in memory.
I have downloaded a small program to kill the virus in memory and then re-installed my virus program. The virus program then managed to clean all but 6 of the exe files infected by the virus. The 6 files it wasn't able to clean are
Mprexe.exe
MStask.exe
Stimon.exe
Wmiexe.exe
Devldr16.exe
Ssdpsrv.exe
These are all in the windows/system directory and are running in the background so this stops the virus program from cleaning them.
I thought I could get around this by booting from a virus detection floppy disk but again this gives an error saying unable to edit file [img]images/smilies/mad.gif[/img]
So everytime I boot my PC these files are obviously loaded automatically which activates the virus so any exe files that are loaded after those are also infected (again!) with the virus. I have to ensure I run the program to remove the virus from memory to stop it infecting any other programs I run.
How do I clean or restore those 6 files as they seem quite essential to the running of Windows?
I am running Windows ME and using Mcafee Virus scan with the latest DAT.
Please help.
Cheers,
Gareth
[Edited by Da Booga - 9/29/2002 10:40:18 PM]
The virus is W95/CIH.1003 and attaches itself to any .exe files that are run whilst it is resident in memory.
I have downloaded a small program to kill the virus in memory and then re-installed my virus program. The virus program then managed to clean all but 6 of the exe files infected by the virus. The 6 files it wasn't able to clean are
Mprexe.exe
MStask.exe
Stimon.exe
Wmiexe.exe
Devldr16.exe
Ssdpsrv.exe
These are all in the windows/system directory and are running in the background so this stops the virus program from cleaning them.
I thought I could get around this by booting from a virus detection floppy disk but again this gives an error saying unable to edit file [img]images/smilies/mad.gif[/img]
So everytime I boot my PC these files are obviously loaded automatically which activates the virus so any exe files that are loaded after those are also infected (again!) with the virus. I have to ensure I run the program to remove the virus from memory to stop it infecting any other programs I run.
How do I clean or restore those 6 files as they seem quite essential to the running of Windows?
I am running Windows ME and using Mcafee Virus scan with the latest DAT.
Please help.
Cheers,
Gareth
[Edited by Da Booga - 9/29/2002 10:40:18 PM]
#4
Finally managed to get rid of it!!!
Luckily, because I'm a lazy ******, I still had the operating system on my removable HDD so I booted from that and scanned the original disk with the virus software, because non of the files were being used it could clean them all.
Easy in the end. He he
Thanks for the tips,
Gareth
Luckily, because I'm a lazy ******, I still had the operating system on my removable HDD so I booted from that and scanned the original disk with the virus software, because non of the files were being used it could clean them all.
Easy in the end. He he
Thanks for the tips,
Gareth
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