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Windows98
Avast 4.6
database 0517-2
I ran Avast but there is still a virus on my computer. I can’t run msconfig or system information.
Doing a “find” on today’s date give me 2 files related to virii: norat and fo(o with squiggly on top). They can’t be deleted so I booted into DOS and deleted them but they’re back after a re-boot. From googling, I’m coming up with a Troj/Norat-A or TrojanProxy.Win32.Mitglieder.bz or TROJ_MTGLDR.F but I’m not coming up with any manual removal info.
Any help would be appreciated. Thank you

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If you download and run avast! Virus Cleaner (http://www.avast.com/files/eng/aswclnr.exe), will it help?
It will be good run a SpyBot and Ad-aware scannings too.
What is the path of the infected files?

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norat and fo(o) are in c:\windows\system folder. According to Zonealarm

To infect a machine, the trojan copies itself to %System%\Winerdir.exe before dropping two DLL files. These file have been identified as:

%System%\foõ.exe (26,112 bytes) and %System%\norat.exe (1,536 bytes).


I can’t find the “winerdir.exe” file
I’ve run adaware and it also did not detect the virus

edit:
After running avast! Virus Cleaner
"avast! Virus Cleaner Tool - version 1.0.207 Ansi

Creating log file: C:\MY DOWNLOADS\aswclnr.log

4/28/05, 9:22:56 AM
Memory scanning started…
No virus body found in memory.
Memory scanning finished (82.8s).

Files scanning started…
No virus body found.
Files scanning finished (73223 files, 0 infected, 891.4s).
Drives scanned: C:"

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I got rid of the virus by continually hitting “control/alt/delete” during startup and closing all programs except systray and explorer. I went thru the process 3 times and on the third try, I stopped 2 processes from running. I was then able to get into msconfig and unchecked all the programs I knew were not needed by windows. I re-booted and everything worked fine. From here, I think keydr.exe in msconfig was the virus. I then went back to msconfig and re-checked various programs and so far everything is normal.

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That sounds too hard to do. I too have some odd virus that will not let me into windows. Some message about not being able to flush or load the system registrary. Then it reboots automattically. I end up with at some point my login screen where you click on user, then it asks for a password! I don’t have a password setup!!. I then run in safe mode and launch Avast. After about 4 hours it tells me it found nothing! ;-( I’m thinking I’ve lost and I don’t have any choice but to do a complete reformat of the hard disk. :frowning: :-X :-\ :-* :cry: >:(