Hi all,

I've been strugglin with a virus that creates about 100 files, each with the file size of 728 KB. The files are each named differently and they resemble names of files that I can find on Limewire . I believe that these files are created at startup, but I am not positive. This bug is not detected by my Norton Antivirus and the files can be deleted, but it is a just annoying to have to do that over and over. If anyone has experienced this, please feel free to add something or if you know how I can solve this bug, please email me and/or post an answer here. Hope to here something soon, thanks.

I am not familiar with XP Media Center. Is there a "system restore" feature? If there is, try turning it off and then restart the computer to delete anything that might be hiding in the system restore files that will reappear on each restart. If you are downloading video files other than mpg or mpeg files using Limewire, they can be full of trojans when you approve the license requests popups that appear. After the restart and the files are gone, you can turn system restore back on.

Download startup control panel from www.freeware.com. It will install to the control panel and is named "startup". Open this, and click on each tab, it will show you all the programs that load at startup, just disable everything you dont recognize, then reboot.

that isnt a vius, it is spyware/malware. try using adaware or spybot s&d.

Kazza,Limewire,Bareshare and all the p2p programs install crapware and mess windows reegistry up big time and make system slow.There are ways to remove the spyware from the install.exe before its installed but its hard to explain. So if you don't know how its best to leave those programs alone.

Keyboard not detected. Hit F1 to Continue. BREAKFAST.SYS HALTED Cerial port not Responding!!

I have that virus too. It is called new_malware.b. It does the same thing for me. Someone said that it might not be a virus at all too. I got it from Limewire and have the same syptoms. I am going to try Adaware

Yep..LimeWire has this 851.7 KB file which takes on the name of the seach query...i tried fooling around with it...and got myself infected by a W32.Trojan...The ramifications:

Missing "System32" folder (it does exist but doesnt appear....if you type the path name in Windows RUN...you get access to it...)

None of the MS-DOS 16-bit progs work...ex:ping.exe or cmd.exe

Limewire starts automatically and creates hell...(..by taking more than 150MB of mem space...)

Zone Alarm detects a file called "update.exe" which emanates from a randomly generated folder name which i cant access...so it is using the net.

Avast!, Microsoft AntiSpyware (BETA *ahem)...doesnt detect any malicious activity although MS does advice me to quarantine Kazaa :p

I disregarded SpyBot or Hijack...logs...theyr just too lengthy...i am contemplating on sys Restore...but then i would have to backup lotsa stuff....AND I JUST DONT HAVE TIME TO DO ALL THAT NOW!!!!! especially after a rather "un-hygenic" attempt at installing/compiling Gentoo on my UMAX actionbook....it took 2days to compile KDE!

Would appreciate further lit. on this matter

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ghostrider273, assuming you are on xp, you could goto:

start button-->all programs-->accessories-->system tools-->Files and Settings Transfer Wizard

From there you can easily make a backup of all of a type of file. Then burn it onto a cd, format and reinstall your OS and then go back to that wizard to reinstall your files.

The wizard lets you save all of the documents you created, not the programs that you made them with. So, if you have Microsoft Word, then when you format/reinstall you will have to reinstall Microsoft Word. However, all of the files you typed and saved in Word would be saved.

You will see this in the Wizard
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*.jpg
Means save any jpg's
* = any

here are limewire removal instructions. i hope these does the job, coz reinstalling os is one pain in the neck :)