Yes, as he says it seems that this virus(or trojan more correctly i thing) has many different names. But sometimes it only some common sense to see if there's a name in the taskman that seems suspicious or that you don't remember.

Doing a google search is useful at most times or use tools like Spybot, Microsoft AntiSpyware, WinTasks, Security Task Manager, etc that can help to identify possible virus and adware.

It's not to difficult to get rid of this annoying pest and thankful there's many information about how to do so, so you're not alone.

Ok, this same thing happened to me, but a different name was used for the crappy virus.
it was MsUpdate.exe
whoever made that stupid thing should jump out a window while lit on fire
btw that guy before was right. he should be applauded for all of that effort he took.

When you say that, does it mean like completely deleting it, so ALL of my shared files get deleted?? Because that is a hugge sacrifice for me :-)

There's more descriptions here about how to fix it LimeWire continually Popping up & also Opening at System Startup (click on link) Also, if you're not sure how to go about it yourself, register at Norbie's site & get him to help you. See NorbiesWorld (click on link)

Man, I don't know if it's only me or w/e, but my task manager wouldnt open either, so I C and P like you said, but the only thing that it shows are the tasks....and that's it....nothing else...no processor tab...nothing, just the tasks....wtf, my comp is ****** for sure....

In the post above yours by the lord there is a link to Norbies world go there he will help you fix it.

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OK ive just spent 6 hours trying to fix this and in the end, the solution was so simple!
My pc had the classic symptoms:-
Limewire opening repeatedly, 15 seconds after it was closed.
ctr,alt,delete was not displaying task manager.
I found 2 'strange' folders on my pc, the 1st one was 257Mb and contained 1300 zip files each was 197K and contained one file and most were named after movies. The 2nd folder was very similar, but contained installer files.
Of course i deleted the lot immediately without unzipping or clicking anything.
I ran NAV,Spybot and Adaware.
Adaware found worm win32.p2p-Worm.Alcan.a
I deleted/quarantined it but everything was still the same.
I copied task manager onto desktop, so i could open it.
As it transpires, the offending process was masquerading behind the name svchost.exe (alongside 6 other genuine ones)
I ran msconfig and selected diagnostic startup and low and behold, the offending process showed itself in task manger (whilst in diagnostic startup)
The offending article was a install file called svchost.exe and was located in:
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Startup
I deleted the item and restarted my pc.
Problem fixed, no restarting limewire
I even opened limewire from the start button and closed it again to make sure, but its all good
I hope this helps somebody spending hours and hours like i have done today

TD.

I to found my virus to be svchost.exe. This file is in fact in the startup registry and the way I solved it was to delete all the proccesses of that name (I had a lot) using task manager (copy to desktop if you can't open it normally). Then a message came up saying about an error and the system will shut down in 30 seconds (or something like that). Just ignore it and make sure all the processes are gone. Then goto the actual program under start > all programs > startup or c:/> documents and settings > all users > start menu > startup. Try to do this before the computer shuts down (I found the start method quicker).

I hope this helps . It helped me sort out that problem.

Samrulez91

If you deleted all of the processes named svchost.exe you had better get you copy of windows out and reinstall. I think the proper terminology is you ended the process. If you deleted all of the svchost.exe windows will not operate properly if at all. And telling people to delete all processes named svchost.exe is wrong all it wll do is mess up their system. svchost.exe is a critical part of the windows operating system. The link below will explain what it is.

http://www.justtext.com/processes-ta...chost-exe.html

Now on the other hand scvhost.exe is a virus that masquerades as svchost.exe and should be removed. Your post above was probably a mistake or a tipe-o but you should edit it and correct it so people don't mess up their computers and TURBODIESEL should edit his post also. The link below tells you what scvhost.exe is.

http://www.justtext.com/processes-ta...vhost-exe.html

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well this might help, on my computer it was under maplom.exe