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This is a first for me, My PC has been effected severly by a major virus.
1. so far I have not been able to remove it.
Its called, Worm Win32Netsky, If anyone has any suggestions im all ears.

2. I also can not do a system restore to a previous date when my PC was healthy. I get a message that "system restore has been turned off contact Domain Admin".
Again Im sure im not the first to experience this, if you encounter the same and have a solution let me know.

PC information
Window XP pro. 32bit



Although this my first major PC inffection, this is precisely why I use a seperate PC for browsing the web and email ie I dont use my tradign PC's for anything else other than connecting to my data provider and trading.

[TIKITRADER]

I ran this a-squared Free

while the computer was in safe mode and disconnected from internet, and had success cleaning up a problem. Not same virus as you mention but it did work on another.

[Tams]

what anti virus software have you tried?

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Tiki ...thanks wil try it.

Originally Posted by Tams »

what anti virus software have you tried?

Tams, on the PC Im having the issue I been using MS security essentials...testing it out sorta speak.
The problem is that this worm is a bitch....it will not let me go online what-so-ever.

[Tams]

try avast!

it is free

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Originally Posted by Tams »

try avast!

it is free

I have not been able to get the PC to accept its installation yet.

The irony is... thats what I run on all my PC's, it works great...specially with TS.
I had AVAST on the PC that im having issues with...decied to test MS sec.Essntial out.

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I was able to install it through USB and not CD drive. Still not sure if it will solve my problem, currently Im running scan.

I did want to ask this.......
Do any of you guys run more then one anti software program on your PC i.e. do you have multiple anti virus software installed on your PC???
as most Anit Virus software recommend to only use one at anytime.

[Kiwi]

I don't run any in real time antivir any more.

I just use Clam (free, minimum intrusiveness) and am careful about opening mail from people i don't know and test doubtful stuff I download.

The real key to virus protection is to use an imaging program and store an image of your C drive. Then if you do get a problem you boot from CD and restore the uninfected image. Then you run virus scan to make sure that the other partitions are virus free.