Why can't i get rid of this WORM?!

[Soldier1]

I recently got a worm called I.Netsky. It really messed up my latency. I cleaned out thousands of infected files with AVG and it (and the latency problem) went away. But not it's back! I ran scans with AVG and NAV2004, but they can't find it. Yet every couple of days, AVG will find an infected file all by itself somehow. And it's really annoying me because my latency is horrible because of it. How do i destroy it once and for all?!

 

[arcenite]

format c:

 

[LeStEr]

Originally posted by: aRCeNiTe
format c:

 

[Fiveohhh]

I just formatted a friends computer was so full of otherjunk anyway was easier to reinstall the os than get rid of all the spy/virus junk on there

 

[XZeroII]

Although I've never personally had worms, I hear it's not pleasent. See a doctor and he'll get you fixed up in no time.

 

[minendo]

Run msconfig and remove anything that should not be there.

 

[Kev]

avg is garbage, rid yourself of it.

 

[fredtam]

removal?

 

[MAME]

http://housecall.trendmicro.com/housecall/start_corp.asp

 

[SagaLore]

Use the cleaning tool provided on Symantec's website.

 

[SilverThief]

Originally posted by: Kev
avg is garbage, rid yourself of it.

What would you recommend? I dont care too much for Norton

 

[vi edit]

I've had 200 instances of netsky get nabbed by my Exchange box virus scanner in the last 2 hours.

 

[minendo]

Originally posted by: SilverThief

Originally posted by: Kev
avg is garbage, rid yourself of it.

What would you recommend? I dont care too much for Norton

Trendmicro

 

[Soldier1]

Originally posted by: fredtam
removal?

Nice, it removed 4 infected files that AVG/NAV didn't find. Problem's still here though!

 

[apac]

Check the Norton/McAfee sites for removal instructions, there might be some. Otherwise, you'll need to fdisk /mbr to clear the boot sector and then format all your partitions. I recently had to get rid of the gaobot virus and even a format alone didn't get rid of it.

 

[minendo]

Originally posted by: Soldier1

Originally posted by: fredtam
removal?

Nice, it removed 4 infected files that AVG/NAV didn't find. Problem's still here though!

Did you run msconfig and double check all items which are being opened at startup?

 

[fredtam]

Did you make sure you disabled system restore?

 

[Soldier1]

Originally posted by: minendo

Originally posted by: Soldier1

Originally posted by: fredtam
removal?

Nice, it removed 4 infected files that AVG/NAV didn't find. Problem's still here though!

Did you run msconfig and double check all items which are being opened at startup?

ALL the items? What about the ones i need?

p.s. yea restore is off

 

[GoingUp]

the other thing is are you running windows XP? turn off system restore..... the virus could be in your system restore and thats why you cant get rid of it

 

[fredtam]

Check out PChell. The top five viruses. There seems to be different versions C,D,B,P) and removal tools.

 

[Soldier1]

Originally posted by: fredtam
Check out PChell. The top five viruses. There seems to be different versions C,D,B,P) and removal tools.

From what i remember, i have Netsky.I. I ran HouseCall, but it found nothing. Downloding pc-cilin now, as their Netsky.I page says it can be removed.

 

[fredtam]

Originally posted by: Soldier1

Originally posted by: fredtam
Check out PChell. The top five viruses. There seems to be different versions C,D,B,P) and removal tools.

From what i remember, i have Netsky.I. I ran HouseCall, but it found nothing. Downloding pc-cilin now, as their Netsky.I page says it can be removed.

Hope it works out. Otherwise -format C:

 

[Soldier1]

I give up. Goodbye C!

 

[RobCur]

formatting won't help you if you don't update xp with all the patches, about 45meg which takes about 30min to an hour and have firewall enabled.
you'll just get it all over again.