Error mesege while Opening" Orkut"

[sneha]

Hi,
   When i  am Opening orkut I am gettng following Error Mesege

"Orkut is banned you fool, The Administrator didn't write this program guess who did?"
      Muhahaha
(alo attached screen shot)
OS-Windows Xp Proffessiopnal , IE-6.0 ,

Regards,
Sneha

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[naren_arsenal]

i suggest u run AVG after u start ur computer and allow it to scan the entire harddisc...
delete the viruses u get after u scan... and then open orkut(this procedure may or may not work,but give it a try)....

[patio]

Who else has access to your machine ? ?

Where did this Orkut program come from ? ?

What programs do you have for protection ? ?

[sneha]

hi ,
i got the solution as follows.

1.   Press CTRL+ALT+DEL and go to the processes tab
2.   Look for svchost.exe under the image name. There will be many but look for the ones which have your username under the username
3.   Press DEL to kill these files. It will give you a warning, Press Yes
4.   Repeat for more svchost.exe files with your username and repeat. Do not kill svchost.exe with system, local service or network service!
5.   Now open My Computer
6.   In the address bar, type C:\heap41a and press enter. It is a hidden folder, and is not visible by default.
7.   Delete all the files here
8.   Now go to Start --> Run and type Regedit
9.   Go to the menu Edit --> Find
10.   Type "heap41a" here and press enter. You will get something like this "[winlogon] C:\heap41a\svchost.exe C:\heap(some number)\std.txt"
11.   Select that and Press DEL. It will ask "Are you sure you wanna delete this value", click Yes
12.   Now close the registry editor.
Now the virus is gone. But be sure to delete the autorun.inf file and any folder whose name ends with .exe in the pen drive.

UPDATE
It seems that they have named this malware as w32.USBWorm and according my friend, Avast is able to detect and remove it. I hope the other antivirus software will also be able to remove it soon.

Regards,
Sneha..