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I have norton which keeps picking up W32.spybot.worm. I followed Nortons direction by deleting the files Norton quaranteened and going into regedit to run and runonce and I also remembered to turn or the restore function. (although the virus was on for a couple of days before I turned off restore so I am sure it got backed up.
After I did all this Norton still picks up remnants of the virus and post address such as, C:\Documents and Settings\allusers\Britney_Spears_Game.Exe, also C:\Explorer.exe and D:explorer.exe.
I have tried different virus scans from the web, Spybot search and destroy, MircroTrend and others and they do not pick up any virus. Actually if I click off the worning that Norton gives and do a scan with Norton it will not pick it up either.
Any help would be greatly appreciated
Joe Paradise
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This worm shouldn't cause the explorer.exe files to become infected.
However, the Britney Spears file is definitely something it created. Have you tried to delete it?
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Tekgirl
When norton comes up it gives the file name containing the Britney_Spears and then under that gives the W32.Spybot.worm that I guess is attached to that file.
Yes I have tried to delelte but can't bring the file up by doing a search.
I also just did another scan with norton in safe mode and it found 93 infected files which I had to quanteen before it would let me delete them.
Thanks for the reply
Joe
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I have the same problem as Joe. Britney_Spears virus that can not be found in order to try to delete. Need help from someone. Internet Explorer is reallya pain to use right now. Please Help!
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I've got the same problem as Joe. W32.Spybot.Worm in the same directories with the same name. There must be a port open, which let's the virus come on your pc. the problem lasts at least 2 months and there's still no patch to fix it (the open port). i think it spreads itself a little bit like "blaster". [...]
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i have read all your messages in regards to the britney spears w32.spybot.worm as i have been having the most fustrating time of my life getting rid of it. And I thank everyone here for your imput on this problem. i just wanted to say i just installed Zone Alarm (which can be downloaded from cnet) and find that my puter with windows xp is still trying to comunicate with a unknown or some IP. At least i can stop this action and also I seem to have stopped that nagging message from norton antivirus which tells me of infected files. I think a good firewall on xp is what is needed to prevent this worm from exposing it self to and from your computer. I just wanted to share with you all my results. Should it not work I'll be sure to return. But I think i've found this to be a solution.
Thanks again all.
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