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Name: Grey_Wolf
Date: May 16, 2004 at 06:55:51 Pacific
OS: Windows xp home sp1
CPU/Ram: 128mb
Comment:

I just ran avg and it says i have Trojan horse downloader.Keenval.j but i cant find any info on it or any thing

and its on the file c:\program files\common files\updater\wupdater.exe



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Response Number 1
Name: Raynor
Date: May 16, 2004 at 22:34:58 Pacific
Reply:

Go to Dietk.com and install and run the program. It uninstalls the wupdater.exe which is responsible for Trojan horse downloader.Keenval.j


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Response Number 2
Name: Grey_Wolf
Date: May 17, 2004 at 15:45:17 Pacific
Reply:

Thank u so much i got rid of it


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Response Number 3
Name: Raynor
Date: May 17, 2004 at 22:52:38 Pacific
Reply:

Np, It drove me nuts as well.


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Response Number 4
Name: gaelicchef
Date: May 18, 2004 at 02:45:54 Pacific
Reply:

Thankyou so much Raynor.
You deserve to be Sainted for this fix, it had me completely stymied all morning.
Message to anybody else with this problem ..use Raynors solution, it works blindingly well. Now how do we attack these buggers that insist on infecting our pc`s by stealth?
Thanks again dude!


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Response Number 5
Name: billiesuenanna
Date: May 18, 2004 at 16:58:00 Pacific
Reply:

c:\program files\common files\updater\wupdater.exe


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Response Number 6
Name: Robert Mantovani
Date: May 21, 2004 at 07:52:47 Pacific
Reply:

My AVG just found the Downloader.keenval.j in:
C:\System Volume Information\_Restore . . .
When I tried to delete it, AVG apparently failed, but whe I ran AVG a second time, it couldn't find the Trojan Horse.

Is my system secured?


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Response Number 7
Name: jokertekkno
Date: May 22, 2004 at 02:14:16 Pacific
Reply:

that's avg for ya... same problem with me....used avg and it moved it to system vol info... now dietk can't find it and my avg after running says it's not there...!!! HELP!!


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Response Number 8
Name: jokertekkno
Date: May 22, 2004 at 02:28:45 Pacific
Reply:

just found this and it works....

If its in system vol info...

Turn system control off
reboot
Turn system control on
reboot.

Gone....

Superb.!!!


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Response Number 9
Name: tania7424
Date: May 22, 2004 at 16:14:28 Pacific
Reply:

Where is system control? I looked in My Computer and the Control Panel and couldn't find it. Am I missing something? I tried DietK and SpyBot and neither of them got rid of it. So now to try this.


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Response Number 10
Name: kegill
Date: May 25, 2004 at 13:20:15 Pacific
Reply:

i got the trojan in the wupdater file and used dietk. it sed it has been removed and when i go 2 where it eas in the c drive it aint there. does this mean it has definatly gone?


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Response Number 11
Name: J03808
Date: May 25, 2004 at 15:32:40 Pacific
Reply:

I did what you said, and the little bugger looks to be gone. Unfortunately, I cannot access anything on my desktop (when I click on an icon it doesn't even get that blue box around it to show it's selected) and windows Media Player doesn't work. These may not be related to Keenval.J, but there aren't any readily apparent other causes. Please help me. I don't like using winamp, and i liked my desktop when it worked.


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Response Number 12
Name: ewtang
Date: May 26, 2004 at 00:51:10 Pacific
Reply:

The same virus is found in my computer in C:\_restore\temp. Raynor's method doesn't work...what should I do?


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Response Number 13
Name: Jan Stroud
Date: May 26, 2004 at 10:14:44 Pacific
Reply:

Go to "My Computer, right click and go to properties. Then go to system restore. Check the box that says "turn off system restore". Reboot. Make sure you go back and re-enable system restore. That should get rid of it. Good luck.


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Response Number 14
Name: ewtang
Date: May 27, 2004 at 00:54:41 Pacific
Reply:

I'm very sorry - I went to "properties" but can't find the box to turn off system restore. Under what tab / page is it? I'm running windows ME. Thank you!


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Response Number 15
Name: ewtang
Date: May 28, 2004 at 08:18:40 Pacific
Reply:

Oh yea I just found out how. The virus is gone! Many thanks Jan!


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Response Number 16
Name: Tracey
Date: May 30, 2004 at 23:09:05 Pacific
Reply:

Thanks guys just found that I had the virus and did a google search and luckly got this page. Just wondering do I know delete DietK or is it ok to keep it and run it again if I get the virus again.


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Response Number 17
Name: screamwithme
Date: June 2, 2004 at 16:16:08 Pacific
Reply:

hi, i have the virus, too, at c:\program files\common files\updater\wupdater.exe but i don't have kazaa... so i can't use diet k. how do i get rid of keeval.j? should i install kazaa or what?


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Response Number 18
Name: Tracey
Date: June 3, 2004 at 23:51:22 Pacific
Reply:

Hey Adam,

I dont have Kazaa either and DietK still worked for me, so I cant see why it wont for you as well - when it told me it could not find kazaa and did I want it downloaded I said no but it still cleared the virus

Give it a go


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Response Number 19
Name: Michelle67
Date: June 4, 2004 at 07:44:25 Pacific
Reply:

I too got this d**n thing. But I didn't get mine from Kazaa instead I got mine from a File that I downloaded and SAVED to my drive. Only to see that it was an install program. So I scanned it with AVG and it said that it was clean and then when I went to install it, some point into the install AVG then pops up and tells me it has detected this trojan and run the AVG program. AVG has been good to me but I don't understand why it didn't catch this before I ran the install file.

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Response Number 20
Name: RuJo
Date: June 8, 2004 at 01:32:47 Pacific
Reply:

This isn't actually a virus; it's a program that is installed by AltNet products for purposes of downloading and displaying ads on your computer.
However, because it constitutes as 'SpyWare' the anti-virus agents pick it up and remove it. Try doing a search for keenvalue.exe.
The best method of removing it is to remove all AltNet products from your PC.

Your choice; SpyWare on your computer, or MP3/Free Software Downloaders.


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Response Number 21
Name: Thresher
Date: June 15, 2004 at 19:30:42 Pacific
Reply:

Disable system restore in Win Me:

Win Me Sys Rest:

http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/tsgeninfo.nsf/docid/2001012513122239?Open&src=sec_doc_nam&docid=2001111912274039&nsf=tsgeninfo.nsf&view=docid&dtype=&prod=&ver=&osv=&osv_lvl

It's hiding in your system-restore files which cannot be vaulted or cleansed except by dumping them. Do not re-enable system restore until you are 100% sure you are clean. You should also dump %TEMP% files > double click My Computer, put %TEMP% in address bar, enter, highlight and delete all. To dump TIF click tools >

In Xp:

Disabling system restore in Win Xp
http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/tsgeninfo.nsf/docid/2001012513122239?Open&src=sec_doc_nam&docid=2001111912274039&nsf=tsgeninfo.nsf&view=docid&dtype=&prod=&ver=&osv=&osv_lvl


Only in me and Xp.

Thresher


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