virus heat

:cry: I am infected with virus heat and AVAST doesnt recognize it. All removal icons direct you to ‘spyware defender’ or some other ‘virus heat’ affiliate. Stopzilla and other mainline AV programs do have ‘virus heat’ removal programs. Why is AVAST so Tardy? Any answers out there before I change AV providers (which up till now I am reluctant to do)?

have u got rid of it? yet cause i know how

and it might just be thats it not a well know virused program or avast just haven’t heard of it that much…
im sure eventually they will have some way of getting rid of it on there program

anyway what is this virus heat…ive been searching google and it seems like its somekind of spyware removal tool or virus removal
kind of like drivecleaner

no, havent got rid of it yet. Stopzilla and AVG both identify it but after a scan they want cash, lol. AVAST has been really good up until now and so has AD-Aware. This thing is popping up past all of the pop up killers, Malware tools and virus scans that AVAST and Ad-Aware have. I really don’t want to load in Stopzilla unless I have to.

Try these specialist rogue removal tools:

http://www.malwarebytes.org/rogueremover.php
http://siri.geekstogo.com/SmitfraudFix.php

And a couple of anti-spyware scans:

Spybot Search & Destroy

SUPERAntiSpyware Free

oh well you could do this…

  1. Click on the Start Menu button, then click on the Control Panel option, and then Double-click on the Add or Remove Programs icon.

  2. Locate Virus Heat and double-click on it to uninstall Virus Heat. Follow the screen step-by-step screen instructions to complete uninstallation of Virus Heat. Do not worry about this if you cannot find it in Add/Remove window. Simply skip to #5.

  3. Restart the computer.

  4. When it has completed uninstalling you can close Add or Remove Programs and your Control Panel.

  5. Close all programs.

  6. Search and delete the following infected entries in registry. If you do not know how to edit registry, click here…http://www.pchubs.com/blogs/how-to-regedit-or-edit-registry-in-windows to read more.
    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Virus Heat

  7. Stop Virus Heat process. If you do not know how to stop a running process, click here…http://www.pchubs.com/blogs/pc-tips/how-to-stop-running-process

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8. Find and delete the following infected files from your system

Virus Heat 3.9.exe
wuuawkz.dll
iinqyl.dll

  1. Rename the files that you found above to “foundbadfile1.dll” and “foundbadfile2.dll” (if you can not rename this file, then try to restart your computer in safe mode then try to rename this file.)

  2. Go to C:\Program Files\ folder and delete the “Virus Heat” folder (if you can’t delete it, reboot your computer to safe mode then delete the folder. Do not worry about it if you can’t find this folder.)

  3. Restart your computer

  4. Go to your computer and delete the “foundbadfile1.dll” and “foundbadfile2.dll” file

  5. You have just removed Virus Heat from your computer manually.

hope that helps you to delete that stupid program…it looks so authentic aswell thats what tricks you :stuck_out_tongue:

New definitions for Virusheat added by Spybot yesterday, so do a rescan if you’re still having problems.

http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html