Comments | pogtanius: Damn! Damn! Damn!

pogtanius

Damn! Damn! Damn!

May 17, 2004 02:27

My newly reformated machine is now infected with an agobot virus. The fucker seems impossible to remove. It fucks with every anti-virus program causing them not to work and even when they do detect it they cant repair, move or delete it. I have found a small little application that gets rid of one file but I understand that it copies itself ( Read more... )

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bluekieran May 17 2004, 02:32:24 UTC

Get yourself an AV program you can boot from a CD.

pogtanius May 17 2004, 02:36:45 UTC

I'm still not convinced it will remove the worm..like I said when they are able to function the recognise it but cant do zip about it.

aeia May 17 2004, 02:36:26 UTC

I think AVG got rid of it on my work machine.

But if you do reformat make sure you have a copy of anti virus software and Zone Alarm on a CD to install so you NEVER have to connect to the internet unprotected. A new install of any Windows is never up to date with the latest patches and a worm will be in there in a few minutes. I've found this by bad experience :(

pogtanius May 17 2004, 02:53:15 UTC

Yeah I tried AVG last night..no luck there...and yeah that is the first thing I will do if I do reformat.

orkney_rob May 17 2004, 02:49:03 UTC

Pog, give this one a try

http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.gaobot.removal.tool.html

Should do the trick! Had a bit of this in the office a while back.

Rob