I used AVAST and it detected that my fservice.exe at system32 folder had a virus, so I choose to deleate it permantly , now whenever I restart my computer , there will be a error , I use XP when I click on the welcome screen on a user It just hangs there until I press clt + Alt + Del , then there is a pop up error that says , fservice.exe is not found , oh man wtf ANYONE GOT THIS exe FILE CAN SEND TO ME PLEASE? my mail
a) I don’t have it
b) it’s not a legitimate Windows-files
c) it’s dangerous malware
d) I don’t distribute malware, especially to inexperienced users
e) follow above instructions (make a Hijackthis-Log in SafeMode) & read links and we’ll sort this
and all red or yellow entries in O1, O2, O8 & O16 lines
THEN: click “FixChecked”, then reboot and the message should be gone
your PC will of course be still loaded with Malware, but who cares …
(you obviously didn’t → no adequate protection, but visiting porn/suspicious sites: not a wise move)
This is the result that my HJT log analyzer gives:
CHECKING HIJACKTHIS, INTERNET EXPLORER, WINDOWS AND SOFTWARE FIREWALL:
You are using the latest version of HijackThis.
You are using the latest version of Internet Explorer.
No software firewall detected. If you are not using a
hardware firewall, it is highly recommended to install one.
THESE ITEMS ARE HARMFULL AND SHOULD BE FIXED/REMOVED :
Yesterday, I had a related problem.
After running a newly downloaded program, all my PC protections were turned off (including the Avast resident ones!) and I got a warning from XP firewall about it.
So I scheduled my Avast antivirus for boot-time scan after setting it to ignore all infected files since I usually prefer to see them in the avast log file (aswBoot.txt) first. It found me the following ones:
File C:\WINDOWS\services.exe is infected by Win32:Prorat-M [Trj]
File C:\WINDOWS\system\sservice.exe is infected by Win32:Prorat-M [Trj]
File C:\WINDOWS\system32\fservice.exe is infected by Win32:Prorat-M [Trj]
File C:\WINDOWS\system32\reginv.dll is infected by Win32:Trojan-gen. {Other}
File C:\WINDOWS\system32\winkey.dll is infected by Win32:Trojan-gen. {Other}
I had to work on my PC for 4-5 hours to clean up completely their infection since I had no clue of the steps that have to be followed.
The last step I faced was the pop-up saying that ‘fservice.exe’ cannot be found since I myself deleted it. To cure it, I went back to the XP registry (by running the command ‘regedit’) and searched for ‘fservice.exe’. Though I am not expert in internal functions of XP, I found out that the warning pop-up was due to the following infected entry in the registry: