Tech Question

[RawAlex]

I would also say that your anti-virus company should have specific details about the virus, if not when you first spotted it, then shortly thereafter.

Most of the ways to remove the most stubborn of infections is to boot from CD or memory key rather than hard drive, using boot software provided by the AV companies. At that point, the programs and "re-inject" methods are not running, and the hard drive can be much more easily cleared.

[housekeeper]

[quot=helix]You could roll back to a previous restore point.[/quote]
Tried that early on and got the popular 'Access is denied. (0x80070005)', searched that one to death and couldn't find an appropriate fix

Originally Posted by RawAlex

Most of the ways to remove the most stubborn of infections is to boot from CD or memory key rather than hard drive, using boot software provided by the AV companies. At that point, the programs and "re-inject" methods are not running, and the hard drive can be much more easily cleared.

Not certain how to do that, I ran several antivirus tools but none detected it. Iminent seems to be a popular one based on the search results and the amount of people that have been infected by it. But if you antivirus companies had all the cures they wouldn't have anything extra to charge ya for.

At any rate, I went in and found a folder by way of 'AllUsersProfiles', deleted the DAT file, I at least have a sense that it's gone. I can't find anything resembling it in any of the places that I've dug up, and I've dug up them all. I'm also not getting any pop ups or other inconsistency from my overall system, there wasn't a lot to begin with and that could be attributed to the fact that Seamonkey is my primary browser. I'll certainly be willing to try more tests or dig a little deeper for a greater piece of mind. But again I'd like to say, "fuck Cnet!" That's where I got this shit, and they could give a rats ass about who gets infected and with what, fuck 'em.