Trojan Vundo removal guide?

[Guest anthony]

I posted a message re an 'auto update turned off' warning from

Microsoft which persists .... and was told it was possibly a Trojan

Vundo infection.

I'm going to follow the tips provided for removal -- but if all else

fails, will my problem be solved by a clean wipe of my hard-drive? I

do have all XP discs, and all software applications safely filed away

for re-use.

[Guest Mick Murphy]

RE: Trojan Vundo removal guide?

 

If you do a clean reinstall, deleting the existing XP partitiion, and

formatting: Yes

--

Mad Mike

 

 

"anthony" wrote:

> I posted a message re an 'auto update turned off' warning from

> Microsoft which persists .... and was told it was possibly a Trojan

> Vundo infection.

> I'm going to follow the tips provided for removal -- but if all else

> fails, will my problem be solved by a clean wipe of my hard-drive? I

> do have all XP discs, and all software applications safely filed away

> for re-use.

>

[Guest nass]

RE: Trojan Vundo removal guide?

 

 

 

"anthony" wrote:

> I posted a message re an 'auto update turned off' warning from

> Microsoft which persists .... and was told it was possibly a Trojan

> Vundo infection.

> I'm going to follow the tips provided for removal -- but if all else

> fails, will my problem be solved by a clean wipe of my hard-drive? I

> do have all XP discs, and all software applications safely filed away

> for re-use.

 

T answer your Question, Yes a clean install will wipe out the infection. But

if you got a backup storage which may be infected you couldharbor the

infection back if you restored data from these backups, so if you do San the

backup before restoring Data!

 

 

Go through these cleaning steps:

 

1... First, try to clean up your caches, Internet files and delete cookies

by doing this:

Click Start >> Control Panel >> Double click Network and Internet

Connections >> Double click Internet Options.

On the IE properties windows you will see these Tabs:

General | Security | Privacy | Content | Connections | Programs |

Advanced

Under General Tab clear your History, Internet Files and Cookies.

Then click on Advanced tab and scroll down to under the Browsing Option:

[&] Browsing

[ ] Enable Third-Party browser extensions (Req Rest) uncheck this box.

Then click on Programs Tab and click Manage Add-Ons and Disable all non

Verified Add-Ons (You should Renable them later one-by-one and see the

culprit and update it or remove it.

How to manage Add-Ons:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/883256

Scan for malware from here:

SuperAntispyware - Free

http://www.superantispyware.com/superantispywarefreevspro.html

http://www.malwarebytes.org/rr-update/rr-free-setup.exe

http://onecare.live.com/site/en-gb/default.htm?s_cid=sah

http://onecare.live.com/standard/en-gb/default.htm

 

Run a scan from here on-line:

http://security.symantec.com/sscv6/default.asp?langid=ie&venid=sym

http://www3.ca.com/securityadvisor/virusinfo/scan.aspx

Download Avast Cleaner (offline scanner) from here:

http://www.avast.com/eng/avast-virus-cleaner.html

 

Run disk clean up on your Drive.

You can download this tool o run clean up:

http://www.ccleaner.com/download/builds/downloading-slim

 

 

Download Hijackthis and send me the log.

(http://www.trendsecure.com/portal/en-US/threat_analytics/hijackthis.php)

my address is : to_you_ross(at remove this and repalce with the

obvious)yahoo.co.uk

( _ is underscore)

 

Step-By-Step Windows XP: Installation

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/setup/winxp/install.mspx

Step-By-Step Windows Vista: Installation

http://www.w-tweaks.com/html/windows_vista_setup__step_by_s.html

 

HTH,

nass

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http://www.nasstec.co.uk

[Guest ju.c]

Re: Trojan Vundo removal guide?

 

F-Secure's Virtumonde Repair Tool (F-Vmonde)

 

F-Vmonde tool detects and deactivates Virtumonde from

Windows XP/2003 systems. Virtumonde is adware that

serves pop-up advertisements. It uses special techniques

to avoid removal, which are circumvented with this tool.

 

F-Vmonde:

Main page: http://www.f-secure.com/security_center/malware_removal_tools.html

Download: http://www.f-secure.com/tools/f-vmonde.zip

Download: http://www.f-secure.com/tools/f-vmonde.exe

Readme: http://www.f-secure.com/tools/f-vmonde.txt

 

 

ju.c

 

> I posted a message re an 'auto update turned off' warning from

> Microsoft which persists .... and was told it was possibly a Trojan

> Vundo infection.

> I'm going to follow the tips provided for removal -- but if all else

> fails, will my problem be solved by a clean wipe of my hard-drive? I

> do have all XP discs, and all software applications safely filed away

> for re-use.

>

[Guest PA Bear [MS MVP]]

Re: Trojan Vundo removal guide?

 

Always reply to your original thread, please.

 

Yes, a format & clean install will address the infections. A Repair Install

will *not*.

--

~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)

MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Desktop Experience - since 2002

AumHa VSOP & Admin http://aumha.net

DTS-L http://dts-l.net/

 

 

anthony wrote:

> I posted a message re an 'auto update turned off' warning from

> Microsoft which persists .... and was told it was possibly a Trojan

> Vundo infection.

> I'm going to follow the tips provided for removal -- but if all else

> fails, will my problem be solved by a clean wipe of my hard-drive? I

> do have all XP discs, and all software applications safely filed away

> for re-use.

[Guest anthony]

Re: Trojan Vundo removal guide?

 

On Sep 25, 12:30 am, "PA Bear [MS MVP]" <PABear...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Always reply to your original thread, please.

>

> Yes, a format & clean install will address the infections.  A Repair Install

> will *not*.

> --

> ~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)

> MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Desktop Experience - since 2002

> AumHa VSOP & Adminhttp://aumha.net

> DTS-Lhttp://dts-l.net/

>

> anthony wrote:

> > I posted a message re an 'auto update turned off' warning from

> > Microsoft which persists .... and was told it was possibly a Trojan

> > Vundo infection.

> > I'm going to follow the tips provided for removal -- but if all else

> > fails, will my problem be solved by a clean wipe of my hard-drive? I

> > do have all XP discs, and all software applications safely filed away

> > for re-use.

 

Thanks to all for the fantastic assistance -- with your help I now

have a fully-functional system again, which seems fast and clean-as-a-

whistle. The 'superantispyware.com' site seemed of most assistance and

I'll keep using it often!

So good to be able to use Firefox again -- whatever bug I had in the

system was preventing me from using Google Search, and some other

common functions. All seems great once more.