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W32.Spybot.Worm (HELP I'm lost!)
Name: jhunt Date: September 4, 2007 at 22:12:54 Pacific OS: XP Professional CPU/Ram: AMD Product: Homebuilt
Comment:
Symantec is telling me that I have the W32.Spybot.Worm. I poked around in the forums, but they were no help. I need help cleaning up my system!
Name: cnf Date: September 5, 2007 at 06:38:58 Pacific
Reply:
1. disable winsystems16 with task manager 2. remove winsystems16 from startup processes 3. disable system restore 4. delete winsystems16.exe 5. delete winsystems16.exe from system registry entries 6. delete any startup files of size 0 bytes 7. reenable system restore
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Response Number 5
Name: XpUser4Real Date: September 5, 2007 at 06:51:36 Pacific
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Summary: I do not get the message from Norton that it is blocking w32.spybot.worm now. I am able to get into regedit from normal mode now. I could run smitfruadfix from normal mode this time. For all of that m...
Summary: 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 c...
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