How to discover a virus?

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Hi.
How do you remove a virus if your and other antivirus programs does't find
it? Please write as much info as you can! Can a virus be discoverd with
strange processes? I use process patrol and i did stop malware process with a
name mrtstub.exe. Can i see this strange things in register?
 
Unexplained computer behavior may be caused by deceptive software
http://support.microsoft.com/?­id=827315

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Microsoft Windows AntiSpyware
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Here's what you can do to enhance the security on your PC
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| Hi.
| How do you remove a virus if your and other antivirus programs does't find
| it? Please write as much info as you can! Can a virus be discoverd with
| strange processes? I use process patrol and i did stop malware process with a
| name mrtstub.exe. Can i see this strange things in register?
 
From: "Score" <[email protected]>

| Hi.
| How do you remove a virus if your and other antivirus programs does't find
| it? Please write as much info as you can! Can a virus be discoverd with
| strange processes? I use process patrol and i did stop malware process with a
| name mrtstub.exe. Can i see this strange things in register?

There are anti virus News Groups specifically for this type of discussion.

microsoft.public.security.virus
alt.comp.virus
alt.comp.anti-virus

Download MULTI_AV.EXE from the URL --
http://www.ik-cs.com/programs/virtools/Multi_AV.exe

To use this utility, perform the following...
Execute; Multi_AV.exe { Note: You must use the default folder C:\AV-CLS }
Choose; Unzip
Choose; Close

Execute; C:\AV-CLS\StartMenu.BAT
{ or Double-click on 'Start Menu' in C:\AV-CLS }

NOTE: You may have to disable your software FireWall or allow WGET.EXE to go through your
FireWall to allow it to download the needed AV vendor related files.

C:\AV-CLS\StartMenu.BAT -- { or Double-click on 'Start Menu' in C:\AV-CLS}
This will bring up the initial menu of choices and should be executed in Normal Mode.
This way all the components can be downloaded from each AV vendor's web site.
The choices are; Sophos, Trend, McAfee, Kaspersky, Exit this menu and Reboot the PC.

You can choose to go to each menu item and just download the needed files or you can
download the files and perform a scan in Normal Mode. Once you have downloaded the files
needed for each scanner you want to use, you should reboot the PC into Safe Mode [F8 key
during boot] and re-run the menu again and choose which scanner you want to run in Safe
Mode. It is suggested to run the scanners in both Safe Mode and Normal Mode.

When the menu is displayed hitting 'H' or 'h' will bring up a more comprehensive PDF help
file.


* * * Please report back your results * * *
 
I did a scan, but not in safe mode. I used all antivirus options. It didn't
find no viruses? I use a NOD32.
 
From: "Score" <[email protected]>

| I did a scan, but not in safe mode. I used all antivirus options. It didn't
| find no viruses? I use a NOD32.
|
| "Score" wrote:
|
You said "It didn't find no" -- so it did find a virus if I take you leterally ;-)

The following may catch what NOD32 misssed (assuming there was something in the first place)

Download MULTI_AV.EXE from the URL --
http://www.ik-cs.com/programs/virtools/Multi_AV.exe

To use this utility, perform the following...
Execute; Multi_AV.exe { Note: You must use the default folder C:\AV-CLS }
Choose; Unzip
Choose; Close

Execute; C:\AV-CLS\StartMenu.BAT
{ or Double-click on 'Start Menu' in C:\AV-CLS }

NOTE: You may have to disable your software FireWall or allow WGET.EXE to go through your
FireWall to allow it to download the needed AV vendor related files.

C:\AV-CLS\StartMenu.BAT -- { or Double-click on 'Start Menu' in C:\AV-CLS}
This will bring up the initial menu of choices and should be executed in Normal Mode.
This way all the components can be downloaded from each AV vendor's web site.
The choices are; Sophos, Trend, McAfee, Kaspersky, Exit this menu and Reboot the PC.

You can choose to go to each menu item and just download the needed files or you can
download the files and perform a scan in Normal Mode. Once you have downloaded the files
needed for each scanner you want to use, you should reboot the PC into Safe Mode [F8 key
during boot] and re-run the menu again and choose which scanner you want to run in Safe
Mode. It is suggested to run the scanners in both Safe Mode and Normal Mode.

When the menu is displayed hitting 'H' or 'h' will bring up a more comprehensive PDF help
file.


* * * Please report back your results * * *
 
Hi.
How do you remove a virus if your and other antivirus programs
does't find
it? Please write as much info as you can! Can a virus be
discoverd with
strange processes? I use process patrol and i did stop malware
process with a
name mrtstub.exe. Can i see this strange things in register?
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"How do you remove a virus if your and other antivirus programs
does’t find it?"
Delete the file it was executed from.

"Can a virus be discoverd with strange processes?"
Probably not, since i’v never hurd of the term "strange processes",
but if you see a proccess runnign that you did not start, you could
look for it’s file location and use your own judgement to decided if
it’s malware or not.

"I use process patrol and i did stop malware process with a name
mrtstub.exe. Can i see this strange things in register?"
If they wrote there names in the "register" yes, but I don’t see why
any malware woudl write there names in the "register" so you could see
they where there.
 
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