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I am also having difficulty with a gaobot variant, specifically W32.HLLW.Gaobot.ao.
Avast anti-virus doesn’t detect this. I did an online virus scan with Symantec and it did pick it up. It told me to end the process ‘scvhost.exe’ (note the different spelling, not svchost.exe) using the Task Manager.
However, Task Manager won’t let me end the process. Symantec also recommends removing certain parts of the registry, but my regeditor won’t stay open for more than a few seconds (probably due to the worm). The worm is also keeping my firewall from working.
A long look around various anti-virus sites doesn’t give much help or they don’t have any info on this variant. One virus chat forum I came across recommended nothing less than a full disk reformat and reinstall! Surely this can’t be the case - I hope not.
I think this is pretty similar to the problem first mentioned on this thread. Any help or advice would be appreciated.