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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.
Eddy
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He runs XP Pro with SP 1
He 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.
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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.