hello i recently downloaded what was meant to be a dreamcast emulator (dreamcast emulator.exe) off KaZaA, which, when i ran it, placed a virus onto my system, i ran norton anti virus, which managed to quaruntine 9 files, these are: bcptdw.exe crcyym.exe (in 2 different places) cwcprddd.exe dx.exe hpkvihv.exe (2 copies of this as well) all of these files were placed in C:/windows/System, apart from dx.exe. which was placed in c:/windows/start menu/programs/startup as i say norton anti virus has quaruntined all of these files, but unfortunatly my virus is not gone this is what happens, every time i boot up my computer, it runs the MS-dos prompt, which dosnt seem to do anythiong, and when i try to close it (wither clicking on the X or ctrl-alt-delete)the name on the windows top bar simple changes to "closing - ms-dos prompt", then about 10 seconds later it goes away, a few seconds after this another window that looks like a DOS window pops up and goes away again very quickly, then a message appears teeling me about a file named moo.reg that cannot be added to the registry because of some reason or another, then everything goes back to normal, unfortunatly it puts about 150 exe files into my KaZaA shared folder, all of which are different versions (i think) of the file i orgionally downloaded (they are all the same size) but all with different names, i delete them all, but then next time my computer starts up it happens again. i deleted any information about my origional file i downloaded from the registry, but unfortunatly it still goes on please can someone help me, its getting quite annoying now i am running: pentium III 800 128 Mb Ram NVidia geforce 2 mx 200 32 mb sound blaster audigy 5.1 30 Gb hard drive 56X CD-Rom cable modem windows ME thankyou Scott p.s i also have another problem, sometimes my computer seems to restart itself for no reason, although its strange, because it will do it about 5 times in a row, then not do it again for a month or so, then start doing it again, can anyone help me with this aswell? thanx Scott

My computer also used to restart itself when the mood arised. It's stopped now. I think it was due to cooling fans or fans of some sort, so I'd check them out if I were you...

http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.kwbot.worm.html Hope this helps question # 1

thanx 4 that larry, ill get myself a new heatsink and fan and see if that solves my problem thanx again Scott

thanx norm, but unfortunatly this isnt the virus i got, sorry i forgot to mention before, but the virus was called backdoor.subseven22 and subseven.22.plugin, im going to have a look on symantics website now to see wether i can get it reapired, but id still appreciate anyone who has an idea of how to get rid of this thanx Scott

http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/backdoor.subseven.22.a.html

k thanx 2 everyone who helped me managed to get it sorted out, sum little bits r left over but ill clear them up over time still would like to hear from anyone who has a better solution as to why my computer likes to randomly restart itself thanx again to all those who helped Scott