Help I Have A Virus

[lieb39]

Sorry about the title but it's very important...

I have a virus, I downloaded it off kazaa. I have no idea what the virus is called, or how I can fix it but I need to get rid of it! What happend was I restarted my computer and nothing except the essential windows stuff loaded, so I tried clicking on a shortcut and it said the program didn't exist. It said this for every shortcut, and program that I tried to open from the run or explorer. I tried to open a .txt file with CMD and I was in the prompt, from there I could open everything fine. Now I'm stuck here and I can't think of what the problem is. It's not the Marijuana virus because I don't have anything beside my system tray. By the way, when I start windows it gives me a message saying "c:\windows\system32\system32.exe could not be found."

HELP ME!

 

[lechtard]

You will probably have to do a reformat - don't restore, it will not get rid of it. Delete the partition recreate the partition and reinstal the os ...

 

[GoNz0]

http://housecall.antivirus.com/housecall/start_corp.asp

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get an anti virus

 

[Enyo]

You won't need to format at all.

It sounds like the virus has been removed (hence the error at boot and the problems running applications)

Step 1: Run the reg patch from http://www.ntfs.org/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=30279&highlight=reg

Step 2: Search the registry for "system32.exe" you will find it referenced in the run keys. Remove the values.

Step 3: Reboot

Prior to any of that use Housecall or Panda Active scan to ensure your system is clean.

 

[Enyo]

I see the patch has been removed. I will do a new one now.

Click for EXE Handler Patch

 

[lieb39]

Fixed. It was easy, just the .exe file thing was trying to open with winamp... weird.... anyways, i got norton so I will always keep that running now. Thanks mate.

 

[Enyo]

Probably not really winamp Viruses add themselves as the EXE handler so they run when you run a application.

Anyway, as long as your clean and running a updated NAV