Virus in System Information Folder

[Leviathan]

Ive got a virus in my "System information Folder" that i cant get rid of, ive put AVG on there as well as having McAfee and they both report it, and say that they have quarintined it but its still there :furious:
does anyone know of a program or something that will get rid of it, plus im sure its the same one that keeps on changing my home page as well, and making my pc run really slow.
:furious: :furious: :furious: Virus makers should be sent to labs and have real viruses tested on them to further research.

[Abaddon]

If the Anti-Virus has detected it and has given you a name....got to www.symantec.com and go their virus removal tools section.

[Leviathan]

I will have a look at the name next time it pops up, cause ive just done another virus scan and it says its all clear, somehow i dont belive it,
just looked in the quarintened folder of McAfee and it says that its the
"Eploit-ByteVerify" trojan, so off i go looking for info on that now.

[piehound]

its a hijacking virus , nasty iccle buggers go find the cleaner its a free download run it and see

[Leviathan]

I dont suppose you have a link handt do you cause all i can find are removal tools you have to buy, and seeing as i didnt buy the trojan in the first place :(

[Draven]

best way is to disable system restore under system on xp which will dump all that info then run a cleaner/scanner

when its all clean you can enable system restore if you want

[Leviathan]

ive already disable system restore, but i still cant find a free cleaner anywhere, i know i probably looking in the wrong places though :rolleyes:

[Draven]

hmmm looks like its just an update and full scan to remove job

you will probably have to modify your scan settings to catch it tho

recommend change it to scan all files, scan within archives, and repair then delete if repair not possible, run from safe mode

[Leviathan]

Thats the strange thing though, both antivirus progs are updated and when i run a scan sometimes it catches it and sometimes they dont, but every now and again i get AVG normally popping up to say that it has caught it again.
And ive been looking for a removal tool but all i can find so far is ones to remove trojans other than the one that ive got :confused:

[Papa Lazarou]

You need to update Windows to stop it coming back.

It uses a vulnerability in MS's Virtual Machine http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS03-011.mspx

Just go to www.windowsupdate.com and install all the critical updates.

[wolfie]

theres a few suggestions here (http://www.sxoc.com/vbb/showthread.php?t=95648)

[Leviathan]

Thanks for the suggestions, but after i ran a virus check in safe mode, the thing would get the the desktop for about 2 seconds and then the pc would reset all by itself, so i thought sod it, and did a fresh install, and its all dandy now :D :D :D

[piehound]

here ya go it gives ya 30 days free i think http://www.moosoft.com/products/cleaner/download/

[piehound]

i did post about this last week but after some knowit all turned the thread into sh*te so some fool deleted the thread as it was posted as a warning to you all that the nasty git will not let you reboot your pc i was about to name and shame the virus and post the fix but like i said it was deleted but as long your fixed no probs mate

look here http://www.sxoc.com/vbb/showthread.php?p=960243#post960243

[Leviathan]

Yep all ok now, lucky i had all my data backed up and my hard drive is partitioned in such a way that only the os and nothing else is on the first partition.
Just let this be a warning to other people thats all i can say.