Host File Virus or Worm? 2

[intuity]

I am helping a friend to clean a possible virus or worm off of her home pc which is running windows XP. She has had this issue once before in that the pc was infected with some sort of worm or virus whic prevented her from accessing Norton Anti virus on the Symantec web page. It kept pointing back to her pc for the home page. I discovered some manipulated and additional ip addresses in her host file so deleted them and ran norton in safe mode. That fixed the problem last time.
This time, she has the same problem in that she ca nnot access the Symantec Norton Anti Virus web page at all but I checked her host file and it was not even there. No 127.0.0 local host. So, I added the host file and she still can't access te Norton web page. Any thoughts as to waht else might be going on here? thanks, Intuity

 

[joemck2004]

Have you tried running Spybot or AdAware on it?

 

[2ffat]

Also look at the FAQ in forum760.

James P. Cottingham
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[intuity]

I want to thank joemck2004 and 2ffat for their useful suggestions. I will share this information with my associate and advise her to install the programs on her pc for clean up activities. Thanks, Intuity

 

[bcastner]

faq608-4650

My favorite of the month quick clean is Giant Antispyware:

http://www.giantcompany.com

There is a two week trial that is fully featured. If horribly infested let it do the heavy hauling work first.

Then use the tools in faq108-4650

 

[bcastner]

sorry, "Then use the tools in faq608-4650"