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273500 2004-09-18 13:03:00 My Windows 2000 Advanced Server SP4 PC has a virus I (or NAV 2001 fully updated) cannot remove.

The file has exclusive permissions from a strange new user, but NO other users have even read access to it!

The file is exactly 16KB, 65536 bytes, and of course I don't have read access so I don't know what it is.

Norton Antivirus finds it as soon as I browse to the folder but can't delete it as it does not have permission.

What can I do?

Cheers George
george12 (7)
273501 2004-09-18 13:20:00 NAV 2001 is getting a bit long in the tooth. If this is a business server George, get a newer product on to it (NOD32 is the best i've come acoss, I've put my money on it recently). If it not critical AVG free may do.

Get over to Tren Micro House Call (http://housecall.trendmicro.com/) and give it a scan with a newer product. You might have to block some ports if it's re-infecting over the network plus go through all the PC's connnected to it (is this your web server?).

Cheers Murray P
Murray P (44)
273502 2004-09-18 13:31:00 it may be memory resident
boot into safe mode, then have another go at deleting it
45South (4769)
273503 2004-09-18 19:05:00 George,

Poor mans interim;

Run up a boot platform knoppix/dos what ever, give yourself rw access to the drive . drag and drop or c/p the offender to a New Folder, move New Folder to Floppy-C/d whatever .

New folder acts like virus vault . if it dosent reboot you can put it back, if it regenerates you can possibly track from where .

This wont remove all the reg and configuration entries Ect, but it should put a stop to is missbehaviour .

D . ,
drb1 (4492)
273504 2004-09-19 02:18:00 New problem: Liveupdate

It had screwed itself, so I followed Symantec's advice and deleted the config file. It runs now but doesn't know NAV is installed!

[Product0]
LANGUAGE=English
MONIKER={DE907F20-A4A0-11d2-A985-00104B70545A}
PRODUCT=LiveUpdate
PRODUCTNAME=LiveUpdate
SEQ.LIVEUPDATESEQ=20000815
VERSION=1.62

I think I need to make/find one of these entries for Norton Antivirus.

Help!
george12 (7)
273505 2004-09-19 02:25:00 George,

Is that 16 kb file still there?

D.
drb1 (4492)
273506 2004-09-19 02:26:00 Success! I copied the config files from my XP Pro machine and unleashed 5.5MB of program updates and virus definitions.

Rebooting now.

Thanks for the help.
george12 (7)
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