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I think I may have found another file name for the infected firus file. In the instrunctions it says delete anything with winupdates in it. I have a file called aupdate.exe that was created the same day as i obtained the virus. Could this be the file? |
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Hi all, I've had the same problem for a couple of weeks and it has been driving me crazy. I followed everyones directions but nothing would work, tried numerous anti virus programs and still nothing. It wasnt until I noticed some strange folders that appeared on a couple of scans which i didnt reckonise, i couldnt find them even with hidden folders and files shown. I found 2 folders that contained 1000's of .zip folders that all contained virus's and where named after films and games. I found these in the below directories; C:\Documents and Settings\James\Complete C:\Uploads I believe LW is picking these folders up and displaying them on searches. They all had a file called MOVIE, which is this stupid virus/worm Both the above folders contained these .zip virus folders. I had to manually type the above in either DOS or in the address bar in Windows. Once I deleted these folders I repeated the steps everyone suggested and found that I had a few virus/worms on my comp, there are winupdate. winupdates. MsUpdate. ms-update. Once these where removed the problem stopped (well so far, fingers crossed) Hope this helps any other fustrated users. James |
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I found that folder with all those zipped folders with a file called movie in each of them. It was like 1.3GB the folder!!! Most of it was like in some latin or something language to....so its long gone now. I found MSupdate too, its deleted..... STILL GOT VIRUS! |
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the weirdest thing jst happened, Norton just came on out of nowhere, and said that it found 2 virus' on my computer 'Winupdates' and "svchost' or something, repaired them, and now i can use the Ctrl+Alt+Del again, i have no idea how it found them or why it took this long but it seemed to fic everything! have faith everyone, u never know when something might happen! thanks for all the help on this forum too guys! |
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thanks!! yeah!! it totally worked.. my worms were called the following: msupdate.exe ms-update.exe it creeps up on you though because when you open up the task manager, it DOES NOT take up any processes % at all!! so please be aware of that!! thanks so much you guys!! |
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