<div><br>Daniel you might want to try PC Tools Alternate Operating system Scanner<br><br><a href="http://www.pctools.com/aoss/">http://www.pctools.com/aoss/</a><br><br><br>Then after this has removed anything it finds try scanning it with the free version of superantispyware<br>
<br><a href="http://www.superantispyware.com/">http://www.superantispyware.com/</a><br><br><br>also a tool you can try that will let you see what's being loaded on startup which might help you track down what keeps reinstalling it is hijackthis<br>
<br><a href="http://www.download.com/Trend-Micro-HijackThis/3000-8022_4-10227353.html">http://www.download.com/Trend-Micro-HijackThis/3000-8022_4-10227353.html</a><br><br><br>Hopefully this will help you out. I had a particularly nasty trojan that kept reinfecting one of my windows workstations at work and using a combination of these tools and using some of the antivirus and spyware removal tools found on the ultimate bootdisk for windows CD to remove it for good.<br>
<br>The ultimate bood cd for windows can be made using tools from this website.<br><br><a href="http://www.ubcd4win.com/">http://www.ubcd4win.com/</a><br><br>hopefully these will help you get that nasty bit of code off of your system.<br>
<br>good luck, let us know if you're successful with cleaning it off.<br><br>Van<br><br><br><br> </div><blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote">
Message: 7<br>Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2008 00:35:51 -0400<br>From: Daniel Howard <<a href="mailto:dhhoward@comcast.net">dhhoward@comcast.net</a>><br>Subject: [ale] XP Malware - XP Security Center<br>To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <<a href="mailto:ale@ale.org">ale@ale.org</a>>, "James P. Kinney III"<br>
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<br>Short question: do you have a win XP malware removal tool you recommend?<br><br>Long version:<br><br>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><br>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><br>Thanks, Daniel</blockquote><div><br> <br></div>