papa_smurf,

Did you try the fix here...
http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...269#post231269
...it's worked for a lot of people.

I think Norbie's been really busy lately, things are a bit hit & miss over there reply-wise.

yes i tried to fix the problem in this way but i cant find no file named alcanchorty.bfu"

Guess you missed this part then? It's the middle part of the link Birdy provided

Alcra PLUS Remover is alcanshorty.bfu

Then,
>Download Alcra PLUS Remover at this link
>Right click link underneith and select "save target as" Save it in the same folder you made earlier "(c:\BFU)".
http://metallica.geekstogo.com/alcanshorty.bfu

you were right i missed that step! sorry for that!

my bug has gone away thank you so much!!!

Geez this is a gigantic thread...just wanted to be a part of it

>Create new folder "My Computer>C:>"BFU"
>Download bfu.zip Extract to "BFU"
>Right click Link Select "save target as" save to "BFU"
>Go to "BFU" Then Drag alcanshorty.bfu over BFU.exe then release.

Maybe, just maybe, you have a rootkit, there's a free rootkit deletion tool called blacklight, from F-Secure, download it and scan, maybe that should do the trick..., and besides, you wiil not lose anything because it's free of charge.

Dl it from here http://www.f-secure.com/blacklight/

I got it too... Been keeping track of the various files found; winupdate, winupdates, MsUpdate, svchost, ms-update, winlogi, msmovies, maplom, wmplayer, and dropper.vb.lu.

I seem to have the svchost variant in my startup. This was not there before I had problems. Startup was empty. I also saw a post where svchost is a valid program, and not a virus.

So, is this a virus or not? Do I delete this or not??

Also, I seem to have no system32 file or folder, but I have 5 svchost.exe programs running. I found taskmgr in a folder called 16b2c96a0c41f4dfdb4d3cc28a4f819 located in C:windows/softwaredistribution/download

Anybody...?

It all depends on wheather it is SCV or SVC host. One is a worm the other is a windows program. SCV is the worm.

http://www.ppedia.com/p4_scvhost-scvhost.exe.htm

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Okay, I realized I needed to make all files and folders visible, and found the files and have them copied to the desktop. I uninstalled LW, and stopped one svchost process. The problem has not reappeared since, but I know it's still there. I do not see any of the common viruses listed in TM. System Idle is near 100%, I assume that's normal. Apparently it's hiding under another - as yet unbeknownst to me - filename.