Winavxxx Virus fix?

system · 2007-11-03T02:18:54.000Z

I have avast installed on a pc that is always kept up to date. Yet somehow it got infected with a virus called “winavxxx.exe” “printer.exe” and who knows what else. This virus locks everyone including the administrator from seeing or accessing the control panel and other critical system management features. I have tried every solution suggested on this site and others. Please! When will Avast be able to recognize and remove this very annoying virus? ??? :-\

Lisandro · 2007-11-03T02:35:47.000Z

Can you send the samples to virus@avast.com ?
You can zip and password the files… Inform a link to this thread and the password used.
You can send the files to Chest and, from there, resend to Alwil for analysis.
Thanks.

Meanwhile, maybe you should run on-line scanning:
BitDefender (free removal of the malware)

essexboy · 2007-11-03T12:09:02.000Z

As this is malware rather than a virus (very grey area) try this

Download and then run SuperAntispyware

[*]On the first page select Check for Updates
[*]On completion select SCAN YOUR COMPUTER
[*]On the next page select COMPLETE SCAN and tick ALL your drives
[*]The next stage will take a while as your entire drive(s), memory and registry are scanned
[*]When it has completed click NEXT
[*]The next screen shows the problems found click OK
[*]On the next screen place a tick against all items and select NEXT
[*]Now to get the log Go to the PREFERENCES button on the right bottom
[*]Select the STATISTICS/LOG tab
[*]Highlight the scan just completed and click VIEW LOG
[*]This will open a notepad text file copy and paste this to your next reply

Maxx_original · 2007-11-03T12:47:07.000Z

can you tell us how is this virus called by other AV products? send some samples of it to www.virustotal.com and post the results here

essexboy · 2007-11-03T13:27:59.000Z

Part of the winantivirus/smitfraud family installs (generally ) the following additional files

winavxxx.exe
printer.exe
autorun.exe
system.exe

I believe Trend call it TROJ_SMALL.ZY

system · 2007-11-07T03:31:51.000Z

Tech post:2:

Can you send the samples to virus@avast.com ?
You can zip and password the files… Inform a link to this thread and the password used.
You can send the files to Chest and, from there, resend to Alwil for analysis.
Thanks.

Meanwhile, maybe you should run on-line scanning:
BitDefender (free removal of the malware)

Sorry for the delay. I’m sending a copy of the files now…

Lisandro · 2007-11-07T11:46:53.000Z

fqnmad post:6:

Sorry for the delay. I’m sending a copy of the files now.

Thanks for helping to improve avast.

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