OK I think I need some help with a virus.
Story is, I have a WinXP sp3 machine which I use for normal web browsing & more work type stuff. This morning, I was on Face book and a music forum I am normally on and I got a Virus warning from Avast. It was a Trojan in some file in Windows system folder. Well, every time I told it to delete it it popped back up again. Eventually, I opened AVAST, which ran its memory check and told me that there was something running in memory and needed a restart to do a boottime check. I did this, but on restart my DVD drive had vanished.
At this point , I had to go to work so shut down, but tonight I have tried again, the DVD is still missing and theres a SVChost constantly running at like 99% and the PC is running sluggish. So I figure that whatever I got is now resident. So, I shut down, and connected the boot drive up to the PC I am now using, a Win7 PC. This PC was not powered up at any time that the other PC was. I did a virus scan and it found win32:Malware-gen in the Windows\temp folder in a file called ~tm33.tmp. I had it delete that but when I booted the XP machine up it still has the 99% svchost running. I rebooted the XP machine in diagnostic mode using msconfig, the SVChost is not there now so, with the machine unplugged from the router, I started an avast scan running and rebooted my Win7 machine which I'm using now.
So can anyone else recommend any other tools I can use to try to diagnose and hopefully clear my XP machine? And where has my DVD drive gone? Any advice would be helpful!!!
Lee.
Story is, I have a WinXP sp3 machine which I use for normal web browsing & more work type stuff. This morning, I was on Face book and a music forum I am normally on and I got a Virus warning from Avast. It was a Trojan in some file in Windows system folder. Well, every time I told it to delete it it popped back up again. Eventually, I opened AVAST, which ran its memory check and told me that there was something running in memory and needed a restart to do a boottime check. I did this, but on restart my DVD drive had vanished.
At this point , I had to go to work so shut down, but tonight I have tried again, the DVD is still missing and theres a SVChost constantly running at like 99% and the PC is running sluggish. So I figure that whatever I got is now resident. So, I shut down, and connected the boot drive up to the PC I am now using, a Win7 PC. This PC was not powered up at any time that the other PC was. I did a virus scan and it found win32:Malware-gen in the Windows\temp folder in a file called ~tm33.tmp. I had it delete that but when I booted the XP machine up it still has the 99% svchost running. I rebooted the XP machine in diagnostic mode using msconfig, the SVChost is not there now so, with the machine unplugged from the router, I started an avast scan running and rebooted my Win7 machine which I'm using now.
So can anyone else recommend any other tools I can use to try to diagnose and hopefully clear my XP machine? And where has my DVD drive gone? Any advice would be helpful!!!
Lee.
