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echo: nthelp
to: Mike N.
from: Geo
date: 2005-01-14 22:00:20
subject: Re: Best freeware tools for removing viruses, adware, and other junk?

From: "Geo" 

"Mike N."  wrote in message
news:mscfu0t70m9cbdtlbifprl5opace69i89l{at}4ax.com...

>    I've not run into this one yet...does it resist detection/removal, or
> just come back by itself?

Nothing I've found can detect or remove it. It disables AV software from
seeing it and it's a persistent little bugger that has managed to avoid my
removal attempts (my kids machine got infected and we ended up formatting
it). Lots of customers seem to be getting hit by it too.

What I noticed was a sasser like scan for port 445 to random IP addresses
going out from my network, tracked it back to an IP address did a netstat
-n and saw the machine was infected, then ran avg, spybot, adaware, some
web av check, nothing showed the machine as infected but it sure as heck
was. I did see usb2.exe (or maybe it was winusb2.exe) running in the task
list and that turned out to be the virus. Once I knew that I had infected
customers who were having trouble cleaning check for the task and they too
had it running.

Geo.

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