TSGL: virus

Tue Jun 17 06:00:26 EDT 2008

perhaps a startup scan with Avast! Anti-virus?

2008/6/16 gene <genoe at charter.net>:

> I bit the big one and reinstalled windows xp. i could not figure out
> anything else to do. So you know i'll be busy for awhile re
> installing all my programs. Oh well, sometimes it's good to do
> everything all over again..........
> Thanks for all your help
> gene
>
>
>
> At 07:51 PM 6/14/2008, you wrote:
> >1.    Have you tried System Restore?  (Was it enabled?  If so, has the
> >virus/Trojan rendered it useless?)
> >
> >2.    A Google search for     "win32.virtob.3.gen"     produced twenty-six
> >(26) results at
> >
> http://www.google.com/search?num=30&hl=en&rls=IRFA,IRFA:2007-49,IRFA:en&q=+w
> >in32.virtob.3.gen.  These include various non-English ones, only some of
> >which had the Google "Translate this page" link.  (If you have had
> occasion
> >to use Google's translation tool, you will appreciate the old expression,
> >"It loses something in the translation.")  The English ones appeared to be
> >mainly statistical ones.
> >
> >3.    Googling for simply      "virtob"        produced 7,370 results at
> >
> http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=IRFA,IRFA:2007-
> >49,IRFA:en&q=%22virtob%22
> >
> >Checking some of the thirty results on my page, I found others who were
> >advised to allow Bitdefender and/or Avast to take action but where such
> >action could not go beyond identification and removal was not
> accomplished.
> >However, from the results I checked, perhaps one or more of the following
> >might assist you:
> >
> >http://www.bitdefender.com/VIRUS-1000070-en--Win32.Virtob.Gen.html
> >(discovered 2006.04.30)
> >http://www.bitdefender.com/VIRUS-1000163-en--Win32.Virtob.  (discovered
> >2007.03.29)
> >
> >http://www.hm2k.com/posts/win32-virtob-virut-removal
> >
> >http://aumha.net/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=28979
> >where the problem included installation HijackThis (version 2.0.2 from
> >TrendMicro) and the service that H. Davis referred to below
> >(His link is to an older version -- Googling     "HijackThis" + "download"
> >produces a number of sites which have the latest version, including
> >TrendMicro.)
> >
> >http://www.antiviruses123.com/antivirus/antivirus_736.html
> >and forums at    http://help.antiviruses123.com/
> >
> >Good luck.
> >
> >Merna
> >
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "H Davis" <hdavis1 at gmail.com>
> >To: "Tech Support Guy Mailing List" <list at tsgserver.com>
> >Sent: Sunday, June 15, 2008 4:51 AM
> >Subject: Re: TSGL: virus
> >
> >
> >Gene,
> >
> >Take a look at HijackThis <http://majorgeeks.com/download3155.html>. I'm
> >not sure what its current state is but a couple of years ago you could
> >run HijackThis and it would produce a log file that you would post on
> >one of several forums and knowledge folks would help you decipher it and
> >instruct you how to resolve your problem.
> >
> >I've never taken advantage of the service myself but have read lots of
> >forums where users were being lead through the process. My impression is
> >that most of the helpful folks know what they are doing. You're mileage
> >may vary of course.
> >
> >There is also the possibility that it's a false positive. Is the thing
> >you've detected a real virus? Have you looked it up on the Symantec or
> >McAfee sites? Also, check the sites of the AV programs that detect it
> >and see if there's any discussion on their forums of how to get rid of
> >it or false positives.
> >
> >Good luck,
> >
> >H Davis
> >
> >gene wrote:
> > > Hello everyone,
> > > I have got a big problem that i hope someone can possibly help me with.
> > > I scanned my computer with bit defender anti virus that isn't so much
> > > anti.It found a virus called, win32.virtob.3.gen, and said it
> > > couldn't get rid of it.
> > > I have since tried avg, nod32, trend micro and dr. web, two never
> > > heard of it, one seen it but couldn't get rid of it and the last one
> > > found it and said to check around to see if i could find something
> > > else to delete it.
> > > I don't know what to do next to reformatting windows xp. and I'd
> > > rather not do that.
> > > Appreciate any help you can give me,
> > > Gene
> > >
> > >
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> >No virus found in this incoming message.
> >Checked by AVG.
> >Version: 7.5.524 / Virus Database: 270.3.0/1502 - Release Date: 2008-06-13
> >7:25 PM
> >
> >
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