Can Swen Be Removed?

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I just discovered this news group, so forgive me if my question has been
answered before. How can I remove the Swen virus from my machine?

Chuck
 
Chuck Hill said:
I just discovered this news group, so forgive me if my question has been
answered before. How can I remove the Swen virus from my machine?

Chuck
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From a previous Post by George:
"Opening attachments lately. MS DOES NOT send attachments.
This is probably caused by the Swen.A virus.

F-Secure
http://www.f-secure.com/v-descs/swen.shtml

Network Associates:
http://vil.nai.com/vil/content/v_100662.htm

Trend Micro:
http://www.trendmicro.com/vinfo/virusencyclo/default5.asp?VName=WORM_SWEN.A

Symantec
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/[email protected]

Computer Associates:
http://www3.ca.com/virusinfo/virus.aspx?ID=36939

Registry Repair Tool
http://a64.g.akamai.net/7/64/2015/2003-09-18-15-/download.nai.com/products/mcafee-avert/undo.reg

Removal tools
http://www3.ca.com/Files/VirusInformationAndPrevention/ClnSwen.zip
Warning: Before running ClnSwen.com, please ensure that you carefully review
the
ReadMe.txt instruction file that accompanies this utility.

And from Michael Jennings we have:

The BitDefender repair tool, available at the bottom of this page:
http://www.bitdefender.com/bd/site/virusinfo.php?menu_id=1&v_id=158#
will fix being blocked from regedit.

McAfee's stinger gets a variety, including Swen:
http://vil.nai.com/vil/stinger/

This site has tools, but there may be a long download delay:
https://www.europe.f-secure.com/v-descs/swen.shtml


--
George (Bindar Dundat ©) MS-MVP
This information is provided "AS IS"
It may even be wrong!
For Windows Troubleshooting Tips see
9x/ME
http://aumha.org/win4/a/tshoot.htm
2000/XP
http://aumha.org/win5/a/tshoot.htm "

Buffalo
 
Chuck Hill said:
I just discovered this news group, so forgive me if my question has been
answered before. How can I remove the Swen virus from my machine?
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How do you know that you have it?

Others have provided good clues as to how to remove it.
 
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