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How do you get rid of that win32 virus?I've tried everything last night and my last hope is my flatmate having a look of it.It's so damn annoying!

tell me more porkie, there are a few types of Win32 virus, have you anymore info on it?

Everytime i switch on my computer this dill error thing comes up and i've scanned and deleted the infected files already but it appears that the virus is still there and can't be repaired either.My internet connection at home has turned slow considering that we have broadband.Thanks fishy!

I am generally useless with computers, but when that happened to me, I reinstalled my OS.

Oh pardon me Truncy........................WHAT IS AN OS?I'M USELESS AT ABBREVIATIONS UNLESS WE TALK OF STDS.

os = operating system, i.e XP

can you get onto your desktop easy enough?
would you be able to run something from your desktop? what i mean is.. is your PC completely freezing and shutting down? or can work on your desktop knowing that the virus is still there?

Yep,i can work fine on the desktop and all that.Do you think that i should reinstall windows xp?

scan here for the exact type
http://www.symantec.com/home_homeoff...nse/index.jsp#

or if you already know that, find how to get rid of it here
http://www.symantec.com/home_homeoff...ing.jsp?azid=W

hold on first, reinstalling XP is a bit drastic. i'm going on me lunch now, when i come back i'll have a little skooch around the net and see can i get some software for you to try get rid of it, if we've no joy at that we'll go down the reinstalling road.

Thanks!

in the meantime have a look at these porkeherrie posted.

porkeherrie... classic!

that would be some bizarre crossbreed between porkie and my good self?

haha.Good link pokkherrie!Thanks a lot!

porky, whats your e-mail addy, i've got some ideas that i'll email to you.

this is all very weird. my computers have never got a virus, though i have personally had to deal with plenty. in any case, what virus is it?

try downloading AVAST! and give the whole thing a good scan. and no, an antivirus that hasn't been upadted is no good. have you ever heard of a firewall anyway? it's nothing to do with kinky sex practices, but it's good protection for your machine.

It's porkmarras@yahoo.co.uk. Thanks a lot Fish!!!!

Win32/Simile (also known as Etap) is a metamorphic computer virus written in assembly language for Microsoft Windows. The virus was released in the most recent version in early March 2002. It was written by the virus writer Mental Driller. Some of his previous viruses, such as Win95/Drill (which used the Tuareg polymorphic engine), have proved very challenging to detect.
When the virus is first executed, it checks the current date. If the host file (the file that is infected with the virus) imports the file User32.dll, then on the 17th of March, June, September, or December, a message is displayed. Depending on the version of the virus the case of each letter in the text is altered randomly. On May 14th, a message saying "Free Palestine!" will be displayed if the system locale is set to Hebrew.
The virus then rebuilds itself. This metamorphic process is very complex and accounts for around 90% of the virus' code. After the rebuild, the virus searches for executable files in folders on all fixed and remote drives. Files will not be infected if they are located in a subfolder more than three levels deep, or if the folder name begins with the letter W. For each file that is found, there is a 50 percent chance that it will be ignored. Files will not be infected if they begin with F, PA, SC, DR, NO, or if the letter V appears anywhere in the file name. Due to the way in which the name matching is done, file names that contain certain other characters are also not infected, although this part is not deliberate. The virus contains checks to avoid infecting "goat" or "bait" files (files that are created by anti-virus programs). The infection process uses the structure of the host, as well as random factors, to control the placement of the virus body and the decryptor.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W32/Simile

That's quite a nasty little bugger!

i'll get an email to you sometime after 6 porkie, i'm up the fuckin walls in work at the moment.

No problem and thanks again guys.