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    ya i visited warez site.. ..ummmmm but not past 2 weeks#

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    Have you tried to repair your install with the XP disc???

    How about a system restore???

    Why not just back up your data ....format the drive and reinstall from scratch...that should fix everything.

    There is lots of great info provided here..in the links and on this site.

    I suggest reading up on your issue...

    If you are unable to do this...

    then take the computer to your local shop...and have them back it up and reinstall....

    as for warez sites..well you get what you pay for

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    Boot into safe mode and re-run your scans.

    Will it let you set the view hidden files option in safe mode?

    Which applications have had their .exe files hidden? Are the part of Windows or something else?

    Do these applications still work?

    What are the names of the .exe files?

    Try submitting some of the files here:

    http://www.virustotal.com/en/indexx.html

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    Or install a second copy of XP (specify a different installation folder), boot that copy, install CA Anti-Virus (free for a year) and Defender, and run them to completion.

    Hope this helps.

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    Adding to Farmikol0t's idea, here is what I would personally do (Im a geek, I have lots of machines)
    Turn off the infected machine, and hook up the drive to a new machine and do a virus scan from the non infected machine, hooking the hard drive up as a secondary drive. This way, nothing should be activly running and any vscan program should remove any malicous files.

    After this is done, hook the hard drive back into the original machine and BOOT INTO SAFE MODE.
    Do another virus scan, and spyware/malware scan, remove anything found.

    This method has worked on every virus I have encountered so far, so good luck, and thank you for reposting.
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    Hmmm,

    I am not entirely convinced that this is a virus, or even malware?

    The reason I say that is it seems to be advertising that there is a problem, which is not typical malware behaviour.

    I would expect a virus to just infect the executables, not hide them. Other malware might create a duplicate named file somewhere else and change the access path so the "fake" file is run.

    I would be curious to know if the same thing happens with a new user account with administrator rights.

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    Okay...lets start at the beginning, how long ago did this start to happen, if you can determine that, then try a system restore to just before the problem started, also are you sure it's a virus and not a Trojan (warez is usually Trojans), if it's a virus you got it by opening an attachment likely from an email or zip file, if it's a trojan you got it from visiting malicious websites.


    This site has very good info on doing a restore.. http://bertk.mvps.org/ after you do this I would go into safe mode and run your anti-spyware and AV's or go online and get the housecall from Trend Micro, http://housecall.trendmicro.com/ sometimes a restore point will have the infected files, so unfortunately if this is the case, a restore is no good and you may have to flush the restore points and try to clean up as much as possible and set a manual restore point.
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    Question

    now all from the begining?.. okay#>>

    ..ya it started exactly 5 dayZ agao.. when i found sum programs like NERO, OPERA, WINDVD, morpheus are not working..

    so i tried to reinstall them but the setup files were also not there..

    ..again when i tried with recovery softwares like PC INSPECTOR FILE RECOVERY and FILE*RECOVERY*ANGEL all the files were shown as not deleted**

    ..BUT again wen i tried recovering same files 2 dayz b4.. da files are shown as deleted nd restoring them gave me all the files of same size<67.3 KB>.. looks like DOS based .exe nd executing them just give a DOS screen and den suddenly disappears from ma eyes..

    ..i think i lost them ..i mean i lost all my program files and back ups for them#..

    ..BUT,TUT stil ven i lOOk in explorer the property windows of folders still shows that files does exist!.. i mean i cant see nd access the files.. but they exist#..

    yup.. i tried with restortation*points which was my first step..
    ..i even tried with with AV like AVG - TREND MICRO - PANDA ONLINE SCAN - and almost all anti-MALWARES*SPYWARES nd all those things.. that too in SAFE MODE..

    ..but nOthing worked#.. nd nothing helped me!..

    ..haahhh#..
    ..i think i should forget my data nd now FORMAT ALL#..... ..........
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    Hmmmm,

    The malware behaviour that you are describing is that of a Vandal. These programs are not subtle, they get on your machine and cause as much damage as possible, usually targetting particular files and applications.

    In this case it looks like music, films and filesharing are the targets? You will have been infected either from a file sharing/warez site or through P2P.

    Can you rename one of these 67.3K files as a .txt extension and attach it to a post............. I am curious to know what it is.

    I think your safest approach is to reformat and reinstall, as you don't know if it is still there, or how it works.

    This time I would suggest that you download your installations and burn a copy to CD/DVD as a backup.


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    Quote Originally Posted by nihil
    In this case it looks like music, films and filesharing are the targets? You will have been infected either from a file sharing/warez site or through P2P.
    Yeah, Morpheus top of the list for infection vector.

    I quite liked panda platinum package. Bit bulkier than some, but spyware, adware, av and firewall all in one place was handy.

    I'm guessing at some point either your on-access scanning was disabled or like me you were unlucky enough to download a virus with no definition. I often disable the on-access scan for performance reasons, but whenever I'm downloading binaries I turn it back on. If its a really dodgy source I will even wait a few days before opening it now, to prevent the same "waiting 3 days for a fix" as last time.
    If the world doesn't stop annoying me I will name my kids ";DROP DATABASE;" and get revenge.

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