The satisfaction of killing this trojan will be mine.. I will.. Kill it..
The satisfaction of killing this trojan will be mine.. I will.. Kill it..
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.
The absolute best anti-virus out there is nod32. It will find and kill it for you. I pirated it for many years, then bought it because I was so happy with its server (so to speak).
One thing to think of, is mabye you just can't delete the file. It could have injected itself into another file that is vital for windows to function properly.
I looked in the host file for my computer (C:>Windows>System32>Etc>host) and everything was fine there.. Ran HijackThis and didn't see anything..
For the time, I'll just keep the annoying popup window in the corner of my screen and hope it doesn't bother me.. And I've stopped IE from receiving any cookies whatsoever.. So I hope my computer holds until a solution is found, or until I can get an external harddrive.
Gah I hate malware.. So much..
If Kaspersky doesn't solve this, I'll try nod32. I saw them the other day.. I liked their boxart.
Last edited by Jeimuzu; 11-17-2009 at 12:28 PM.
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.
NOD32 is what I use but to really get rid of it you need to determine the name of the Trojan.
problem came from a trojan called scvhsot.exe (note that the spelling is not the same as svchost that is more common in the system, I think?). That person said that the trojan named scvhsot.exe was stored in the system folder, and was identified by scanning using kaspersky antivirus software. (I guess you could just search for it without using that software. But maybe they were pointing out that the software identified it as a virus.) So, if you find that file, then that person said: Delete the exe file, restart the computer, then open the autorun.inf files of each drive you have and empty it. In the file you can see it opens sss.exe, which is the program that (they presume) is causing all the exceptions. When you delete scvhsot, this sss.exe also gets deleted. Once you empty the autorun.inf files of all your drives and save them, restart again. It should work (they say). They went on to say: If you want to search for the autorun.inf files, you can use "Ava find Professional" searcher. Make sure you change the file's read/write permissions to let you delete its contents and save.
Only real way to do that is get the log from my friend or redownload the trojan and hope to hell Kaspersky catches it this time..
Edit: YES, fixed the popups!
One down.. One to go..
Last edited by Jeimuzu; 11-17-2009 at 02:47 PM.
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.
Get malwarebytes ... it will solve all your problems.. and nod32 will not save you from malware.. just saying..
and if your computer is going to shit.. you can always use regrun platinum.. use regrun platinum as a last resort.. because that program is known to literally wreck your registry.. but it clears the spyware O.o
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Format... Virus scans are good for catching virus's before they infect your system but once there on the best bet is always to clear the system. Most virus scans cannot fully remove a virus and the virus probably went and did some evil things with your windows registry anyway. Format and have a faster install after you delete all the junk that built up any way. Also if you want a good virus scan go download Microsoft security essentials.