I have a worm on my laptop because of my own stupid fault. I got an email from a girl I know that said “You have an admirer” in the subject line and even thought I suspected a virus I was so interested I opened it. I saw a zip file called attachment.zip and (oh my, I don’t know why) I opened it.
Now I have a worm on the computer. It runs a startup called winit.exe and it seems to considerably slow down my laptop. I did some research and discovered that this is the Mugly.A worm. Not too sure what that means though :-\
I tried running Avast but it does not see “Mugly.A” - Avast says my system is clean.
Might want to try the free program called Ad-Aware S.E. 1.05, and also the free program called Spybot Search and Destroy. Both those programs might be able to take care of removing it or at least allowing you to quaranteen it. Welcome to the forum.
Wow, thank you for the fast reply Neal. I will try both Ad Aware and Spybot in the order you suggested.
I am a big fan of Avast Antivirus and this is the first time it has failed me. I suppose the Avast Chappies will get around to sorting this one out soon.
Most anti virus programs are not designed to detect the majority of “worms” that are floating around on the Internet. They are mainly designed to detect malware infections that are written as viri or as a virus. That is why those programs that I mentioned might do a better job of detecting this particular worm your pc has.
P.S.:
avast should detect
Win32:Mugly [Wrm]
since Dec 2nd → earlier than Trendmicro
→ What VPS-Version do you have ?
→ or, if it’s a new mugly-variant which UPTODATE avast doesn’t detect even in SafeMode/thorough/Archives or Boot-time Scan:
please send it in (see above)
Personally I believe that speaking of worms, trojans, viruses etc nowadays is not covering the things that causes harm to a system. (It never did in fact, but looking at the recent past it does even less). it is more apropiate to call it malware. And there is no single application that can remove/prevent all malware. That is one of the reasons that the malware removal section on the link in my signature is so powerfull.
I have now installed and ran ad aware, spywareblaster and spybot search and destroy. My system is running at a cripplingly slow pace and is no better.
In answer to your question, yes I did have an up to date avast version. It was updated on 12/12/04.
I tried to delete the file which was the root of all my troubles love_04.scr and then ran the other malware removal progs in the order above. They found quite a few critical files and I have quaranteened all of these.
The executable file winit.exe that appeared with my virus has gone but my system still snails along. The mouse curser moves freely for some seconds, then freezes as if performing some memory intensive operation, then moves again. peforming any operation is s l o w.
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