Help Yall,I got a worm i cant get rid of (Cpu Assistance Vanity)

Semi Vanity ^ | January 28th 2004 | Dan

[MetalHeadConservative35]

i just scanned my computer for viruses and i came across the WORM SPYBOT.X with trendmircro's house call and it told me its non cleanable and after going to a few sites to see whether or not i can get rid of it,i came up short (i checked a few virus sites and norton's site as well)

any help is appreciated thanks,

Regards from a very ice cold michigan

Dan

[MetalHeadConservative35]

and if it can be helped please no flaming,just askin for some help is all thanks

[BigSkyFreeper]

Try this

[Consort]

Or this.

[MetalHeadConservative35]

yes,this was one of the sites i looked at,i dunno the worm resides in my winmgt.exe file

im thinking i may have to re install windows,but im using that as a last resort

[BigSkyFreeper]

And this

[MetalHeadConservative35]

ok what if i delete winmgt.exe?

[BigSkyFreeper]

winmgt.exe is in use by windows, windows won't allow access to it, which is why the virus can't be removed from that file.

[MetalHeadConservative35]

ok im going to reboot,brb,

admin,if this gets outta control in anyway you have full go to delete this thread thanks,

[BigSkyFreeper]

go to start then run then type msconfig, if it's there can you turn it off in msconfig? if you uncheck it, click ok, then you'll have to reboot. if its there and you can disable it, then you can remove the file. I did a search and I don't see that file on my drive.

[BigSkyFreeper]

In msconfig, you'll want to look under the startup tab.

[MetalHeadConservative35]

its a file on XP it seems,and spyhunter cant get to it before my computer crashes (just had 2 crashes since the start of this thread

i think..im going to have to wipe this computer out

[Alberta's Child]

I can't help you, but I just wanted to post a message here to thank the moderator for leaving threads like this up for a while -- I've gotten some helpful advice from knowlegable Freepers on things like this in the past.

[BigSkyFreeper]

OK, good luck. Backup anything you've created (pictures, bookmarks, etc).

[BigSkyFreeper]

Heh! I do it for a living! Helping computer users that is. :)

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

http://www.enigmasoftwaregroup.com

$30. one time fee. Sorry that it costs, but 3 weeks ago I was being attacked by so many spybots and parasites and home-page hijackers that my computer was practically useless. I literally could not fill in any field of any length on any net page without a pop-up or pop-under showing up. I would have a dozen Orbitz or MSN or Netflix ads opened up to the point where my memory was disappearing. It was screwing with my stock trades as well. This was behind a Zonealarm firewall on a cable modem.

I tried about 3 different types of pop-up killers, NONE of which worked because the parasites had already installed themselves. The thing removed over 75 pieces of adware and spybots from memory, windows registry and programs. I am not particulary confident removing stuff from my windows registry; I knew if I mucked about I could really get myself into serious trouble, well beyond $30 of time/labor worth. This piece of software has worked very well for me. I run it every few days and it inevitably finds 2-5 new things that have installed themselves. It gets my reco.

[Alberta's Child]

LOL. Thanks for all your help, BSF!

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Think I will check that out!

[MetalHeadConservative35]

thanks,im gonna take this thing to my tech tomorrow afternoon probably gonna do a shakedown on it thanks for yall help really appreciate it

Regards

Dan

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

Just for grins I ran it again just now while going out to get a snarfburger. I had run it and hosed out my computer 2 days ago. It found 12 parasites.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

He found 34 in my registry.

One was a package called "Kontiki" that I got from CNET when I downloaded from their site.

Wonder what they (CNET), what the hell are trying to do!

I may send them a note!