I've used AVG Antivirus (from grisoft.com)for over a year now, and it's been great. Last Saturday morning, howeever, I woke up to it detecting the "HIDRAG" virus on my machine. I let it run, and it found 564 instances of the virus. It seems to have infected most, if not all, of my executables. AVG was unable to heal/clean them, and asked if I'd like to move them to the "virus vault". Although not thrilled about this, I said yes out of desperation, to which it said that it was uanble to move the selected files to the virus vault. I'm going NUTS here. I looked up HIDRAG, and it looks as if it's supposed to be relatively harmless, yet AVG keeps finding it and my computer is in a shambles as I can't run my .exe files! When I attempt to run them I get a message about being unable to run this file and possibly not having permissions...(sorry guys..I hate being vague, but I'm on my work computer now..since the home comp is wrecked) I tried evals or Norton's and MCafee.. Norton's found nothing (??) and MCafee found 2 instances of a totally different virus (which I didn't write down..who knew?)..and then stopped running , as the executable got hit (as did AVG finally). Please HELP!!! Ignoring the virus momentarilly, I found the program "exefix08" to possibly repair the executables..but it doesn't run in XP. Sigh. Once again..Please HELP.

try a online scan at www.housecall.antivirus.com

Hope you have luck with this; http://www.simplysup.com/tremover/download.html

I'm basicly having the same problem but cannot also run programs that need the use of a DLL

You can totally remove this virus from XP using AVG but you must first disable the system restore feature. Then reboot your system and run AVG Full Scan, it should heal everything (NOTE: Exe prob is the same as I have, I have about 1007 Exe's that no longer work so if you find a solution let me know X_x)