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cannot remove worm/lovgate.ad
Name: roscoe Date: April 26, 2006 at 03:24:43 Pacific OS: windowsxp CPU/Ram: intel 256k Product: compaq presario
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I have antivir installed and every time I do a scan with another program I get a message that worm/lovgate.ad is installed in one of my temp files. I looked it up and it scares me to death. I tried to get it off my computer with stinger and symantecs lovgate remover as well as about 5 other antivirus programs. Nothing has worked.
Name: XpUser4Real Date: April 26, 2006 at 09:30:14 Pacific
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download ATF cleaner and Crap Cleaner, go to safe mode and undo system restore and scan with the above progs. Make sure to turn system restore back on when you reboot.
Hopefully my advice will help you...Please post back with your results....thanks
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Response Number 2
Name: XpUser4Real Date: April 26, 2006 at 09:33:36 Pacific
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You may also do an online scan with Kaspersky or ewido, the other progs I mentioned in my last post get rid of excess junk on your PC, cookies, temp files, etc
Hopefully my advice will help you...Please post back with your results....thanks
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Response Number 3
Name: roscoe Date: April 26, 2006 at 14:59:22 Pacific
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Thank you for ur advice. I ran those programs in safe mode and searched for the changes the worm might have put in the registry as suggested by mcafee and sophos. I found none. Also a search for altered file extentions turned up nothing. Antivir continues to send a popup that says worm detected but I assume its just the shell and the virus has been removed. So do I just click ignore next time I get the pop-up?
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Response Number 4
Name: roscoe Date: April 26, 2006 at 15:33:54 Pacific
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Ok I ran crap cleaner again this time not on safe mode but on normal and it deleted every folder and file in my temp directory so it seems the infected file is gone. Thank you XpUser for recomending it to me. I think it will save me a lot of headaches from now on.
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Response Number 5
Name: XpUser4Real Date: April 26, 2006 at 15:47:15 Pacific
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Thanks for posting back! I always run ATF-cleaner and then Crap Cleaner before I do any spyware scanning (saves alot of time), they work well together
Hopefully my advice will help you...Please post back with your results....thanks
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