My laptop OS-Vista has infected with gphone.exe. Which creates folder exe with the same name in each folder. I am using latest update of Avast home edition but the virus is not getting removed. Though i have deleted gphone.exe but a lot of other folders are infected. Can somebody suggest the solution?
Google is your friend:
http://www.prevx.com/filenames/1577685622400586961-X1/GPHONE2EEXE.html
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/w32sohanabi.html
You can try these:
If you haven’t already got this software (freeware), download, install, update and run it, preferably in safe mode and report the findings (it should product a log file).
- SUPERantispyware On-Demand only in free version.
- MalwareBytes Anti-Malware, On-Demand only in free version http://download.bleepingcomputer.com/malwarebytes/mbam-setup.exe, right click on the link and select Save As or Save File (As depending on your browser), save it to a location where you can find it easily later.
Hi singh999a,
Gphone.exe is nowadays one of the most dangerous virus spreading very fastly.
It’s a trojan and changes your IE homepage and sends tries to open gtalk and yahoo messenger.
It even sends messages to gtalk contacts.
Its icon is just like that of folder icon and people thinking of folder click on it get infected by the virus.
Gphone virus basically is a 260 kb .exe file which looks like a folder and it can take any name of any other folder if you have clicked on the virus folder which looks like a folder but it isnt.
If you have a folder name “comptalks” in your D drive it will make a exe file in the folder named comptalks.exe and if you click on that exe file it too work as a virus.
It makes .exe files in all the folders you have with the name of the folder.
I have attached the txt file with the manual removal instructions and a tool to delete all the GPhone infected files,
polonus