Stu wrote:
> On Sun, 2009-04-26 at 10:59 -0700, Renato Patron wrote:
> Not too long ago I fixed up a laptop for a friend who had the same
> problem. I copied his "Documents and Settings" onto a usb HD, scanned it
> from my Linux computer with ClamAV, (AVG also has a free anti virus that
> runs on Linux) and found the "Vundo" trojan. This trojan neuters any new
> anti virus you load onto the machine before you get a chance to use it.
> It also kills Windows automatic updates, pooches all the restore points,
> and even corrupts the restore partition as far as I can tell. There is a
> software solution to rid the computer of the nasty thing, but it's
> expensive, and offers no guarantees that it will work. The brute-force
> solution of cleaning it out by hand takes a computer professional about
> a week (if it can be done at all), and all the experts said it simply
> wasn't worth the trouble. Best solution is to reformat and reinstall.
That is a nasty one. One of my coworkers got it on his XP machine. I was
able to clean it using this free tool:
http://vundofix.atribune.org/ YMMV.
-Charles
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