PC Problem

[southend4ever]

Moderators,

could you please leave this in here for a while because this is where i will get the most responses if any,

thank you.

My PC has a nasty virus, Trojan horse downloader.small.9.ad

I have adware and spyware as well as avg for windows virus'. none of them completely get rid of this virus. it is located to a file which is recommended i do not delete because windows uses it.

does anyone have any ideas as to what I can do about this, or what virus removers i can download for free. Or will I need to get a specialist in to remove this.

Advice would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

Hammo

 

[McScriven]

I can't find any reference to that virus on the net are you sure you have the right name?

Dave

 

[Beaver]

I've just looked also - no Downlowder Virus with that extension.

 

[The Artful Shrimper]

Sounds like its in the sytem restore cache then. Turn off system restore~Control Panel~system ~Performance~File System~Troubleshooting~ then click on the disable restore.
Reboot computer, run AVg (the file should be deleted), then turn on System Restore and make a backup.
Avg won't delete from system restore, like a "Hantaneer" virus I believe?
After you've rebooted from the system restore being backed up, just for piece of mind i'd run AVG again but it should have gone?

 

[southend4ever]

It reads

Virus
Trojan horse Downloader.Small.9.AD

is found in file
C:\WINDOWS\NETDX.DLL

To remove this virus, please run AVG for Windows

I may try that Artful, thanks for the advice, so I go to control panel to do it...?

 

[southend4ever]

Quote[/b] (The Artful Shrimper @ July 30 2004,21:01)]Sounds like its in the sytem restore cache then. Turn off system restore~Control Panel~system ~Performance~File System~Troubleshooting~ then click on the disable restore.
Reboot computer, run AVg (the file should be deleted), then turn on System Restore and make a backup.
Avg won't delete from system restore, like a "Hantaneer" virus I believe?
After you've rebooted from the system restore being backed up, just for piece of mind i'd run AVG again but it should have gone?

It has been off!!

 

[The Artful Shrimper]

Quote[/b] (southend4ever @ July 30 2004,21:16)]

Quote[/b] (The Artful Shrimper @ July 30 2004,21:01)]Sounds like its in the sytem restore cache then. Turn off system restore~Control Panel~system ~Performance~File System~Troubleshooting~ then click on the disable restore.
Reboot computer, run AVg (the file should be deleted), then turn on System Restore and make a backup.
Avg won't delete from system restore, like a "Hantaneer" virus I believe?
After you've rebooted from the system restore being backed up, just for piece of mind i'd run AVG again but it should have gone?

It has been off!!  

...oh!
soz, new one on me then.. what dodgy site d'you get that virusfrom then?

 

[Guest]

Quote[/b] (The Artful Shrimper @ July 30 2004,21:21)]

Quote[/b] (southend4ever @ July 30 2004,21:16)]

Quote[/b] (The Artful Shrimper @ July 30 2004,21:01)]Sounds like its in the sytem restore cache then. Turn off system restore~Control Panel~system ~Performance~File System~Troubleshooting~ then click on the disable restore.
Reboot computer, run AVg (the file should be deleted), then turn on System Restore and make a backup.
Avg won't delete from system restore, like a "Hantaneer" virus I believe?
After you've rebooted from the system restore being backed up, just for piece of mind i'd run AVG again but it should have gone?

It has been off!!  

...oh!
soz, new one on me then.. what dodgy site d'you get that virusfrom then?  

an over 18 one i think, can anyone help

 

[The Artful Shrimper]

Read this

Think you might have the netdex Trojan, you've probably got a file that will download the big boy whilst you're online,,,but i'd research the netdex as that's what you might have?

 

[Guest]

how do i find this, wont find it from going to run..

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

 

[Javea Shrimper]

Take this to the pub now please?

WS

 

[Shrimp in a Kilt]

Get yourself a copy of Zone Alarm (Freebie):

Zone Labs

Once running it will block any attempt by a virus to access the net (unless you give it permission, of course).

Also don't be too worried about deleating the .dll file. If you have your operating system disc, just reinstall (refresh) the OS once you have chopped the file. If in doubt, rename it first and copy it to another directory. Then if you have trouble getting Windoze to run again, re-boot to DOS using your emergency startup disk and copy the file back again. If all OK, delete the copy.

HTH!

 

[Technician]

Have you resolved this problem yet S4E?

If not, PM me...

 

[The Artful Shrimper]

Quote[/b] (Shrimp in a Kilt @ July 31 2004,10:46)]Get yourself a copy of Zone Alarm (Freebie):

Zone Labs

Once running it will block any attempt by a virus to access the net (unless you give it permission, of course).

Also don't be too worried about deleating the .dll file. If you have your operating system disc, just reinstall (refresh) the OS once you have chopped the file. If in doubt, rename it first and copy it to another directory. Then if you have trouble getting Windoze to run again, re-boot to DOS using your emergency startup disk and copy the file back again. If all OK, delete the copy.

HTH!

...and turn on your system restore facilitie in case you need to go back when things were ok.


I wonder if Southend can do something along these lines?

Not that we'llneed it this year!

 

[Technician]

Quote[/b] (Guest @ July 30 2004,22:12)]how do i find this, wont find it from going to run..

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

S4E... This file is in your registry. It is generally recommended that you don't touch the registry unless you know what you are doing or are prepared to accept the consequences of any mistakes!

Have you sorted your PC out yet?