Thanks Mike! This was driving me crazy. It looked to me like some kind of Trojan or virus, but nothing I tried could locate it. I searched with Norton Anti-virus and Ad-Aware with no success. I ran CWShredder and the problem is solved. That was definitely the cause.

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Hey thanks Mike! I had the same problem with a msinfo.exe not found and found this site with a google search. I ran the CWShredder and it fixed my problem. Any way of blocking the CWS Trojan?

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Ok, now I am getting this darn message, and I have tried to no avail to go to the CWShredder thingy, and it uploads and all, but I don't know where to go from there, and now I feel like I have a ghost writer here, I type and then POOF it appears....can anyone explain what is going on? I just recently added a Lexmark printer to this computer and I am really getting frutrated. Thanks! Barbi

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barbi! just download the cwshredder zip and store it onto your computer. then open the zip-file by doubleclicking and also doubleclick on the cwshredder.exe-file in the winzip-programm window. then everything happens itself and cwshredder cleans up your computer. good luck! mike

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Mike, you are a god damn star mate! It's been driving me crazy for a few days this thing. Every time I opened the computer, the msinfo.exe thing popped up, and I thought, Doh, must have deleted a wrong file or something, but havent got round to looking into it. Past few days, running the internet has been a right hassell because allthough my connection speed has been maximum, the loading of the images seemed to take normal time, but to scroll through a page of posts on a bulletin board would literally take forever, and I thought my memory might be packing up or something Anyway, searching to replace msinfo.exe on the computer through google, I stumbled across this, and had no IDEA it would have been a trojan virus. Downloaded and ran CWShredder, and Bam, problem solved! Thanks Mike, you're a legend! Neil

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Mike, I am just like most of the above. Got the error, searched google, got here, read your response, got shredder, problem solved. Thank you. I do wish I could get one minute with the person who sends these viruses out. Just one minute.

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This is to Mike: Thanks for posting your CWS solution to msinfo.exe not found. I had this problem and could not find solution. Finally ran across this message board, took your advice and, tadaa!, problem solved. I always appreciate people sharing their hard-won solutions to these odd problems! Thanks, drowelfdrizzt

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When I 2-click cwshredder.exe in the zip-program, I get "ERROR STARTING PROGRAM - A Required .dll file, MSVBVM60.dll, was not found." Plz help.

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Sounds good, but I downloaded the file and when I try to run it I receive the following error message A required .DLL, msvbvm60.dll, was not found. I have searched my Win98 system and there is no such file. Sugestions?

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I too have got the message "msvbvm60.dll not found". What do I do now???

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If you get an error about a missing DLL, MSVBVM60.DLL, it's because you need to download the VB runtime libraries from Microsoft I found a complete list of registry and win.ini entries and files that these leagalised trojans leave on our computers here: http://www.spywareinfo.com

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Still getting the error message every reboot even though shredder has cured the internet slow down problem. Any cure please?

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I have tried shredder twice but message still appears on boot

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CWShredder has cured slow running and other problems but on booting, msg. window "msinfo.exe not found" appears.msinfo.exe is not in WIN.INI. What do I do next?

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Further to above msg., I went into WIN.INI and totally deleted line saying "run=C:\WINDOWS\..PROGRA~1\COMMON~1\MICROS~1\msinfo\". Problem solved and system appears OK.

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Finally!!!! I have been searching & hoping to try & find a "cure" for this slow-poke computer. I got rid of the Trojan Virus & am now getting the same "msinfo.exe" prompt. I tried to download the shredder & when I do, Realplayer pops up. I have tried to open zip files before & cannot do so because Realplayer opens up & then says that I cannot access the file. Do I need to install a program to open zip files? And if so, then what should I use? Thank you! Bonnie

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How do you find the WIN.INI file? I have been searching for it to no avail. I do know that when I click on Start, Run & type in msconfig, in the start up menu there is "run=C:\WINDOWS\..PROGRA~1\COMMON~1\MICROS~1\msinfo\". Should I uncheck it & where do I go to find it to delete it? Thanks, again! Bonnie

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Bonnie:Click on start,find,files or folder.Enter win.ini at named.click find now.when found, click on win. win notepad comes up. hilite and delete the line "run+ etc.It appears after load=ptsnoop.exe Worked for me!

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Thanks, Jayrae! I found that when I clicked the WIN & the notepad popped up, it had msinfo.exe in it. When I downloaded & ran the CW Shredder & checked again, those words were gone. My computer runs faster, typing is so fast now. Before, I could type apage before the letters even started showing. I did notice that now when I click start & click on Documents, there are files that I did not put there. Should I delete them? They are: Advertising.com95, Avenue Alnc43, Browser toolbar 19, Save Now, Save Now 3, Sex Tracker 1, Sex Tracker 14, Wild Tangent 77, Xupiter 33. When I click on Properties, it says Target Type: Winzip Files, Target Location: Recovery, Target:"C:\Program Files\Spybot - Search & Destroy 1.1\Recovery\SexTracker14.zip" Click on start in & it says "C:\Program Files\Spybot - Search & Destroy 1.1\Recovery", Shortcut Key: None, Run:Normal Windows. They all have the same properties. There is also a Win file & when clicked on this comes up,[windows] load= run= NullPort=None device=Canon Bubble-Jet BJC-4000,CANON800,LPT1: [Desktop] Wallpaper=C:\WINDOWS\APPLIC~1\MICROS~1\INTERN~1\INTERN~1.BMP TileWallpaper=0 WallpaperStyle=2 Pattern=(None) [intl] iCountry=1 ICurrDigits=2 iCurrency=0 iDate=0 iDigits=2 iLZero=1 iMeasure=1 iNegCurr=0 iTime=0 iTLZero=0 s1159=AM s2359=PM sCountry=United States sCurrency=$ sDate=/ sDecimal=. sLanguage=enu sList=, sLongDate=dddd, MMMM dd, yyyy sShortDate=M/d/yy sThousand=, sTime=: And the properties say C:\WINDOWS\win.ini Should they all be deleted? I ran a Virus check with Norton Virus & it was all clear. I would like to delete them if possible, since I didn't put them there. Thanks, Bonnie

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PLEASE HELP ME!!!!!!!! I tried to download, it said I couldn't. So I opened the win.ini file, and couldn't find the run+ etc thing to delete! I've done everything you've said and am still completely and utterly lost! Can anyone help me?! How do I get rid of this thing?!!! Please help!!!!!!!

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keebz Goto spywareinfo.com and download the unzipped version of CWshredder. I had big problems and this worked for me. In about 15 seconds I was back to normal.

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I agree -- Mike rules -- thank you, Mike! Now did anyone else notice damage to their computer? I don't know if this was related to the virus (the Dell guy says it was, but I think it's just because he can't fix it). Ever since, everything on the computer -- files, windows, desktop, is projected REALLY LARGE on the screen. So you can't even see whole documents, just a portion of them! He took me through an hour of steps then finally said I might need to re-format the hard drive and reinstall the operating system. An image driver problem or something. Luckily, this is an old computer and I've got all my data on a new one, but does this make sense to anyone? Has anyone else had this problem? By the way, to fix the original problem (the virus/work), I was on the phone with Dell technical support (for which I pay many hundreds of dollars), and the guy helping me wasn't getting anywhere. After about 10 minutes on hold, I googled the error message, found this board, and followed the link. When the Dell guy came back on the line, I asked, "Is this a virus?" And he said that's just what he figured out. Then he proceeded to direct me to the spyware site. So that's what Dell support is reduced to -- some guy with a phone and access to google.

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I found it! not at that website, but yeah! I found it! It's at http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/junk/CWShredder.exe which is a lot easier than the roundabout ways, I think. lol. So if there's any out there as dumb as me who's having problems just use that address. It should start downloading amediately. Thanx for all your help everyone!

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Mike: Thanks so much for helping me get rid of that damn message! Norton advised me a Trojan horse had been detected on my computer and stated they were unable to fix it and recommended I put it in "Quarantine", which I did. Then the message popped up twice every time I started the computer. My guru recommended the computing net message board and there you were with the solution! cwshredder worked like a charm and cleaned it up in 25 seconds!

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HI everyone, Downloaded CWS & tried to run it, GOt a message that said MSVBVM60.dll not found. Went to a .dll site downloaded that file, re-started my computer & again tried to run shredder. My computer is still saying it can't find the .dll file. Help, this is driving me crazy.

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I'm not a regular member of these forums. I found this site while searching for a solution to the msinfo.exe problem. I just wanted to say "Thanks a million" to Mike for posting that solution. Within 10 seconds, my computer was back to normal. Thanks again man:).

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W A R N I N G: The cure is NOT guaranteed. This virus has become stronger, and is making itself impervious to getting the fix from www.spywareinfo.com/articles/cws/. In fact everytime I try to go to that web site to get the CWShredder.zip file, the virus though latent and invisible even afer turning off the msinfo.exe in windows system configuration win.ini, and having healed all files using my antivirus (which is AVG6.0 and very good), that somehow I am instead rerouted not to www.spywareinfo.com/articles/cws/ but instead to other sites, either non-adult web indexes, or adult website indexes which in turn repopulate more trojan related viruses into my system. As soon as I am rerouted from spywareinfo.com, AVG6.0 pops up a danger alert that the new virus is asking to be given access, and even though I disallowit, the virus then propagates itself onto various files within the harddrive (usually windows/temp or program files/etc..). The virus names all begin with DOWNLOADER and then have a secondary node, and third node. So Far these have been named: Downloader.Dyfica.B and Downloader.Toolber.G (correct spellings), and are both trojan horses. I have a feeling that although these strains seem to be single host infections that a spread is possible from those that are not anti-virus protected using the web.

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"Downloaded CWS & tried to run it, GOt a message that said MSVBVM60.dll not found. Went to a .dll site downloaded that file, re-started my computer & again tried to run shredder. My computer is still saying it can't find the .dll file. Help, this is driving me crazy." I'm having the exact same problem... if anyone knows the solution to this, please help! thanks!

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As I log on to my PC, there is something that says that "msinfo.exe" is not found. Not, my internet access is extremely slow and I cannot burn CDs. I need help on alleviating the problem.

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Hi, I to have this nasty virus. I have updated my Nortons 2003 to the latest definitions, scanned pc to no avail! Then looked at the Symantec website with no mention of it there either! Thanks to MIKE (you legend) have found how to get rid of the horrible thing! I had trouble however with the zip file so found this page much more helpful: www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/cwschronicles.html Good luck everybody! Pinky.x

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Hallo Mike, I had the "msinfo.exe not found" problem. I did a Google search and found this site. Your advice was super. The cws-shredder you recommend cleared the system in seconds. Regards and many thanks John H.

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hey, i also had the msinfo.exe not found problem. Without this site i'd have reformatted my OS and lost much valuable data. Many thanks to mike for the solution, it is really appreciated. S Leahy

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Thanks again to Mike who saved yet another person from insanity. Use of CWShredder seemed to clear almost everything up, no more messages re msinfo.exe or missing .dll file, but I am having trouble opening Word. Any ideas from anyone as to whether this could be related? I double click and it just gets hung up, you see the opening screen showing ownership and then everything freezes up. An earlier uninstall and re-install didn't work. In advance, thanks for any help. Shelley

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I have the same msinfo.exe pop up everytime I start my computer. Excited to find your site and then to read about the CWShredder which I downloaded OK.That was the easy part.The hard stuff is that I am totally computer illiterate!I also get the message that MSVBM60.dll not found. Well I am certainly getting better as I went into Start-Find-files and folders and typed in the above file and found it....now what ? I am stuck. Any help (in great detail) is much appreciated. Lately all kinds of things are happening to my computer and I am scared to even go on it.....

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When I try to download the CWShredder a messgae pops up saying Windows cannot find America. America is neccessary for opening ZIP files, I suppose. How do I get America? OR even better, where do I find a non-ZIP version of CWShredder? Thanks!

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Hey, In responce to the post from Shelley Korch, i had the same problem. It can be fixed by start -> find -> files(or folders) and searching for a word template called normal. Renaming this file should fix the problem (if u haven't already). ;-)

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Thank you mike (5) for pointing me/us in the direction of a solution to this problem. A very special thanks to Merijn who wrote cwshredder Steve

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