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Have got the W32.spybot.worm virus on my PC, which keeps popping up every minute or so in Norton Antivirus.

I`ve been through the ran Norton thoroughly, I`ve ran Adaware, I`ve scoured the registry, I`ve ran a search for tftp*.*, and I`ve done everything else I can possibly think of, but it won`t go away! Norton can`t even find it on a full system scan!

At the minute it keeps sticking itself in System32/spool/printers/ and the other day it was sticking itself in my shared folder. I`m at a complete loss, and short of formatting my PC, which I don`t want to do - I`ve ran out of ideas!!!

Help??!!! :(

Hi Ben

turn off system restore

right click my computer>properties>system restore tab>
then put a tick in the system restore box.

use google and search for "Stinger", this is a stand alone tool
from Mcafee which may help.

once you have found and removed the virus, reinstate the system restore option.

hth

Ste.

...is that gasoline I smell?

i personally would not use norton
its not that reliable even though it is one of the most popular around

try using a different antivirus next time
would recommend panda or bitdefender
i used norton before
uninstall it because it uses too much memory
changed to panda .. and guess what panda detects 4 extra virus that norton didnt find!
a friend of mine changed to bitdefender and found 5 virus (and this was done last week)

come and challenge my Chokie Monsta`

cokie enjoy

This item was edited on Thursday, 9th December 2004, 13:49

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changed to panda .. and guess what panda detects 4 extra virus that norton didnt find!
This happened to me also on my old PC when I did a panda antivirus online scan, except panda found a lot more than 4 viruses that norton failed to detect.
I bought panda platinum internet security (includes firewall) for my new PC for only
£7.04 at ebuyer and it`s been great. It comes with a very big virus definitions database and on average about 50 new virus definitions are added to it every day, so it`s money well spent.

EDIT: Forgot to add that the link is for the OEM version "to be sold with any "non-peripheral hardware component" and is bundled as such". The boxed retail version is £23.49.

This item was edited on Thursday, 9th December 2004, 14:52

Ben you need to get rid of Norton and go with AVG, Norton are crap IMO. AVG is free, do a search on here for it the link to d/l it should be in one of the posts.

Thanks everyone, now trying BitDefender first. Then I might try Panda too, depending on how well it does.

Then I`ll try Ste`s method if none of those work, though oddly since resetting my PC the virus hasn`t come up? Pretty sure its still around though...

AVG here.

You might want to consider doing what Ogster recommends doing in this thread : install AVG and do a free online scan once a week from both Trendmicro & Panda. Whatever you decide make sure you get rid of Norton. ;)

for a worm stingers your best bet i would reckon

stinger here

Ste.

...do you like my new hat?

This item was edited on Thursday, 9th December 2004, 20:57