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HELP!! Newbie with 179 viruses!!

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eetrapnoel

Technical User
Oct 23, 2001
20
US
Hi all,
Ive been running the old AVG version 6. I downloaded version 7, ran it and it found over 170 viruses (mostly Java/ByteVerify). It told me......

Virus Encyclopedia
J&M.A
J&M.A
Simple viruses, which attack diskette BOOT sectors and the MBR of hard disks. Virus body is trivially encoded and at its end the visible text J&M.

Contains unpleasant destructive action - formats the beginning of C: drive.

Destructive action is planned for 15th November.

Yikes! The old version used to remove them, but this one wont even give me the option. It says they are infected and an embedded object. I am also running AdAware and Spybot. Can someone point me in the right direction on getting rid of these PLEASE!
Thanks!!!!!
 
I think I would try pandasoftware's online activescan.
Take the fix option allowing it to try to fix anything it finds.

See what kind of improvement that gets you.

If you are running 2K or XP, this would also be an excellent scan:

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It's 10 O'Clock ( somewhere! ).
Are your registry and data backed up?
 
By an infection of that magnitude, I would suggest a total fresh install of Windows!!!



Ben

"If it works don't fix it! If it doesn't use a sledgehammer..."
 
download and run ewido in safe mode and run cleanup, they should get some of it off. You should also download and post a hijack this log!


for javabyteverify do this:




Do you have Sun's java , or Microsoft's javaVM? If you have sun's go to control panel, click on java, click cache and clear. If you have Microsoft's uninstall it and download Sun's java.



this is the download page for Sun's Java





Download hijack this from the link below.Please do this. Click here:


to download HijackThis. Click scan and save a logfile, then post it here so
we can take a look at it for you. Don't click fix on anything in hijack this
as most of the files are legitimate.



* Download the trial version of Ewido Security Suite here



* Install ewido.
* During the installation, under "Additional Options" uncheck "Install background guard" and "Install scan via context menu".
* Launch ewido
* It will prompt you to update click the OK button and it will go to the main screen
* On the left side of the main screen click update
* Click on Start and let it update.
* DO NOT run a scan yet. You will do that later in safe mode.




*Download Cleanup from Here


* A window will open and choose SAVE, then DESKTOP as the destination.
* On your Desktop, click on Cleanup40.exe icon.
* Then, click RUN and place a checkmark beside "I Agree"
* Then click NEXT followed by START and OK.
* A window will appear with many choices, keep all the defaults as set when the Slide Bar to the left is set to Standard Quality.
* Click OK
* DO NOT RUN IT YET






* Click here for info on how to boot to safe mode if you don't already know
how.


How to boot to safe mode



* Now copy these instructions to notepad and save them to your desktop. You
will need them to refer to in safe mode.


* Restart your computer into safe mode now. Perform the following steps in
safe mode:




* Run Ewido:

* Click on scanner
* Click Complete System Scan and the scan will begin.
* During the scan it will prompt you to clean files, click OK
* When the scan is finished, look at the bottom of the screen and click the Save report button.
* Save the report to your desktop


* Run Cleanup:

* Click on the "Cleanup" button and let it run.
* Once its done, close the program.


post the ewdio log and a hiajck this!
 
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