<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 12:35 AM, Daniel Howard <<a href="mailto:dhhoward@comcast.net">dhhoward@comcast.net</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Short question: do you have a win XP malware removal tool you recommend?</blockquote><div><br>dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda using toms root boot disk <a href="http://www.toms.net/rb/">http://www.toms.net/rb/</a><br><br>I have used this malware removel with 100% success for the past 10 years. Removes ALL virii included boot sector nasties that call ntloader and others.Run! Don't walk to <a href="http://www.toms.net/rb/">http://www.toms.net/rb/</a> and download your copy today! <br>
<br>dban is another tool that will also thoughly cleanse the drive of virii and spyware: <a href="http://dban.sourceforge.net/">http://dban.sourceforge.net/</a><br><br>I was able to manually pound someof those off by killing of many running bugs and deleting them manulally. But I did finally use the BartsPE disk I carry. Live windows CD. <br>
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Long version:<br>
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I've googled myself to death on this one. I've tried everything so far<br>
except purchasing a new Windows antimalware program (currently use<br>
ClamAV and Spybot SD). I've somehow picked up a malware program that<br>
puts a red circle with a white X in it in the task tray that keeps<br>
trying to get me to buy some rogue antispyware program called XP<br>
Security Center. I researched it, sure enough it's malware (rogue<br>
antispyware), found the names of the files used (winivstr.exe and<br>
braviax.exe) and couldn't delete them due to being in use, so I booted<br>
my XP install disk in recovery mode, and deleted the files from all<br>
locations found from searching (in the WINDOWS and SYSTEM32<br>
directories), and dang if they still don't get replaced on reboot.<br>
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So, I probably need to purchase a better tool for removal, but there's<br>
so much crap out there that poses as malware removal that is likely yet<br>
another malware package. Is there a good malware removal package that<br>
would work on beasties like this one?<br>
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Thanks, Daniel<br>
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</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>-- <br>James P. Kinney III <br>