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Thread ID: 107590 2010-02-23 01:18:00 Removing Rostov trojan sarel (2490) PC World Chat
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860732 2010-02-23 01:18:00 A friend of mine got the Rostov.gen IB trojan, and he can't get rid of it. Thought A squared removed it - no dice. Any suggestions. Win 7.

sarel
sarel (2490)
860733 2010-02-23 01:20:00 trojan remover, malwarebytes, superantispyware,MSE or Nod32, HJT GameJunkie (72)
860734 2010-02-23 01:29:00 He used everything except Nod32 - it just returns. he thought it attached to a Win file

sarel
sarel (2490)
860735 2010-02-23 01:34:00 Disable system restore then scan the whole hdd

Is that what A squared picked it up as?? Rostov?
Speedy Gonzales (78)
860736 2010-02-23 01:37:00 Scan the drive 'offline' - in another computer, or with a bootable scanner CD of some kind Agent_24 (57)
860737 2010-02-23 01:39:00 Is rostov.bin on c somewhere? If it is delete it Speedy Gonzales (78)
860738 2010-02-23 02:06:00 Yes, he tried to delete it but it just returns. This guy is no newbie, so he tried all removal options, used online scanners, and thought a2 removed it but it just returned (when he is online it MSE pops up a warning so he has to unplug the phone line physically to prevent it from accessing the net). Looks like a backdoor trojan to me. Apparently it is picked up as Rostov.gen /B (with a straight line in front of the B) by all AV's.

I told him to slave the drive, if he can, scan it and perhaps see whether Combofix can't remove it. There is not a lot on Google about this one.

sarel
sarel (2490)
860739 2010-02-23 02:11:00 So, did you see if that bin file was on c?? Post a HJT log from it in safe mode / networking Speedy Gonzales (78)
860740 2010-02-23 02:21:00 Speedy, I did not see anything - he asked me if I knew how to get rid of it. I'll advise him to do a HJT and post it here but I think he will rather reformat the HD and reinstall Win7.

sarel
sarel (2490)
860741 2010-02-23 02:30:00 His choice. Just dont chuck any P2P programs on it. Thats if he did in this case Speedy Gonzales (78)
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