Tigerlily, You can not find your system32 because it is a hidden folder. In the first thread by kc0rkx_finch is mentioned the following:

3)Open My Computer. Select Tools from the menu, followed by Folder Options. Click on the View tab. Make sure that there is a check mark next to the following items:

Display the Contents of System Folders
Show Hidden Files and Folder

4)Now, make sure there are no checkmarks beside the following:
Hide protected Operating System Files.

Did you do those steps also?

The missing regedit.exe i can not explain but try and search your pc for the file (If you allready didn't do that, that is).

For TrendMicro: I don't understand. I have an ADSL connection and installing the files for TrendMicro didn't take all to long. And i completely don't understand the WORM story. Where did you go to to download TrendMicro??? And how did you find out a WORM was attached?

grtz

I recieved some pop ups from MangnetMix.com and from Bitzi.com then after that Limewire opened up 10 times with 10 Limewire icons displayed in my task bar I thought these were safe sites I am doing virus scans and spyware scans couldn't find Winupdate at all any help would be appreciated thank you

Man I dont know. I followed the instructions on here and still have the popup and VERY SLOW computer problem, so I uninstalled limewire and that java program, I think that java program is the worst thing ever invented. Jeez. Im tired now, but I will take a look at this again over the weekend and let you know what happens. But man, what a hassle, WinMX never did this to me and I used it for a couple years. They should find the *** that attached the worm to this. I guess its a trojan? horse, whatever its still BS. Is there a diff?

BeerBottleBill, Did you follow the instructions by kc0rckx_finch? That should get rid of the annoying limewire popping up every 10 secs. And by the way, i had something called MsUpdate.exe not WinUpdates.exe so it can have a different name.

TigerLily, Try to copy the taskmgr to your desktop if you can't open it normally ( CTRL-ALT-DEL ).
Then kill the process that's taking up all the resources (90+%). (That should give you a better performance and thus a faster PC. Then you can continue with the other steps mentioned in this thread.) When the process keeps starting itself up, find the process on your pc and replace/remove it. I had the luck i didn't have such a process but i did have the popupvirus. After replacing the inected files i didn't have the problem anymore.

Hope to be of some help.

grtz

Thanks darlin. I followed your instructions and there were no processes taking up that much resources. I already uninstalled limewire and java and all their files and everything seems fine now; except for the missing files I already mentioned. Havent had time to play with that yet though. I am afaid to re-install LW and of having the same problem again. Its really trying my patience, lol.

Ok I'm a bit confused here, I followed what kc0rckx_finch wrote but:

1. there are no winupdates files in c:\windows\prefetch

2. I still can't open taskmgr with ctrl+alt+del, I opened taskmgr the way kc0rckx_finch said, it worked, the only process taking up the most CPU was System Idle Process so does that mean I have to end it? For some reason I can open regedit normally but not taskmgr

3. limewire still tries to open every few seconds...

I can't beleive I paid for this virus!!! What the F*** was the creater thinking? Sheesh, I tried everything to fix it on this post, but it still keeps popping up.

dannysummers, if you don't have the winupdate files you may have other files. I had something like msupdate.exe. It may vary so it seems. Use the free virusscan (homecall) from trendmicro.com. It's good and it's free. Then:

1. Uninstall LimeWire and remoev every file containing limewire in it (Search your entire pc for it and remove it without doubt)

2. Locate the virus-files (with trendmicro) and
a. Kill them if they are running
b. Remove them

3. Reboot
4. Reinstall LimeWire

If everything went ok the popping up should be over. If not, post a msg here. . hope to be of some help... :S

grtz

I have problems. I can't find anything with Winupdates or MSUpdate in it. Nothing besides System Idle Process takes up any memory. And my Internet Explorer is corrupt. Any help

Cheathie

Your problem from what you described does not sound like the virus they are talking about in this thread.You might want to go to norbies world they can probably help you there. You will have to register there it is a really good site for figuring out computer and virus problems.


http://www.norbiesworld.co.uk/

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