A little help please

.Kencs

.Kencs

.Kencs

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I am currently looking at my mates PC as she has been getting some virus issue.
Everytime she gets this:

W32/SelfStarterInternetTrojan!Maximus

I have been unable to shift the damn thing. Anyone have ANY ideas as it is driving me crazy. I dont want to be paying for some BIG program to remove. there must be a way. Any ideas would be really appreciated.

Thanks
 
What antivirus is she currently using?
Is it not able to repair, quarantine or delete the infected file?
 
Zildjian said:
What antivirus is she currently using?
Is it not able to repair, quarantine or delete the infected file?
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Using AVG. I'm just running Lavasoft Adaware as it's quite snow too.
It keeps coming up with can not find swflash.ocx so i have go onto the net, downloaded 'swflash.ocx' and saved it in the System32 folder.
I have then opened up cmd prompt to register the file and put:

regsvr "C:\Windows\System32\SWFLASH.OCX"

and it comes up with:

DllRegisterServer in C:\Windows\System32\SWFLASH.OCX failed.
Return code was: 0x8002801c

Im totally confused
 
Turn off System restore.
Update then run Ad Aware SE.
Reboot.
Update & run a Decent AV. Avast or Antivir are Free & will do the job.
Reboot.
Turn on System restore.
Reboot.
Post a Thank You post :p
 
.Kencs said:
I am currently looking at my mates PC as she has been getting some virus issue.
Everytime she gets this:

W32/SelfStarterInternetTrojan!Maximus

I have been unable to shift the damn thing. Anyone have ANY ideas as it is driving me crazy. I dont want to be paying for some BIG program to remove. there must be a way. Any ideas would be really appreciated.

Thanks
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Make required backups.
Scan backups with a good AV and Anti-spyware progam.
Nuke hard drive
Re-install Windows
Restore only clean files.

Be a lot more blinking careful next time.
 
Do a windows update, it may find out something there, if no joy then put your windows xp disk into the drive and do a repair as opposed to a fresh installation/reformat.

Make sure u put the disk into the drive when windows is fully booted, then the menu will come up as you should know.. and then do the repair.

Should work, always found this to be a very helpful thing when ive had issues with deleted files.

Hope this helps dude.
 
disable system restore, remove avg

install nod32 trial (for now), spybot s&d, adaware, avg antispyware (uninstall this after as it hogs the pc a bit)

update them all and do full scans in each of them

chuck Avast! on after removing the nod32 trial
 
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