Hi Folks,
My 1st post on the Forum. Any advice on the Helkern Worm and its removal would be much appreciated. Not me, but a friend was attacked and to set his mind at rest, I said I would try and find out.
He runs XP Pro with SP 1, Zone Alarm (free), Avast 4.6 Home Edtn, Spybot, Ad-Aware and Microsoft AntiSpyware (Beta). He thinks he is infected, but run full and thorough scans using all above and found nothing but a few (5) cookies. Have found various info on other forums ,But can’t seem to allay his fears.
Both of us fairly new to Computing (1yr - 18mths) I would be very grateful for any advice. Thank you very much.
Yours, Bob.
He runs XP Pro with SP 1He should start with making his system up-to-date and close a lot of security holes.
He runs XP Pro with SP 1, Zone Alarm (free), Avast 4.6 Home Edtn, Spybot, Ad-Aware and Microsoft AntiSpyware (Beta)I'm missing HijackThis in the list.
I susggest he gets HijackThis and check with that also.
If it still shows nothing, it is safe to asume the system is clean.
Hi Guys,
My thanks for advice and definitely agree with you both. Have advised my friend and he ran HijackThis and found nothing. He is a bit wary of SP 2 but I’ve tried to assure him that the good outweighs the bad stories he has heard about SP2. Anyway thanks a lot for advice.