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benj

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unidentified virus???
« on: April 10, 2004, 11:46:58 AM »
hi! there's this virus that modifies a process so that the process eats up 100% of your CPU usage, thus, you can no longer run any programs. does any of you know what kind of virus this is? and how do i remove it? please please help... :-/

thanks!

dl65

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    Re: unidentified virus???
    « Reply #1 on: April 11, 2004, 12:52:55 PM »
    Benj....What O/S are you using ? Have you tried opening
    your task manager to see whats eating up your resources? You might try reading more here
    http://www.liutilities.com/products/wintaskspro/whitepapers/paper3/

    If possible give more info

    dl65   ???
           
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    wrathchild_67

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    Re: unidentified virus???
    « Reply #2 on: April 12, 2004, 10:56:04 AM »
    http://download.nai.com/products/mcafee-avert/stinger.exe

    http://download.com.com/3000-2144-10045910.html?part=69274&subj=dlpage&tag=button

    http://www.lavasoft.de/update/refs/reflist.zip

    Download Stinger from the link above. Then get the latest Ad-aware and reference file (unzip the file to the c:\Program Files\Lavasoft\Ad-aware 6 directory). Now boot into Safe Mode and run both Ad-aware and Stinger. This should do the trick.