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[Glyn]

my brothers machine has got one of those viruses that give you so many seconds then shuts down the system
his a.v prog is so out of date it wont even find the virus let alone identify it
ive tried the removel tools from symantic for blast and welch(summit like that) but it's still shutting down just before i can finish downloading the a.v updates.
so how do i identfy this virus in order to get rid of it.
any one hazzerd a guss to which one it is.
also i heard tell of a dos command that would prevent the sys from shutting down?

[TP]

Hi Glyn, I'm a bit out of touch with this thing but you used to be able to get your hands on a bootable floppy with a dos scanner on it. This will help you get around the virus kicking in.

I'd have a quick search on the Symantec or McAfee site's for such an animal.

Another thing you could do is put another disk in the PC (I know I'm getting a bit more far fetched here but a lot of people have extra bits lying around ...) and boot from that and then scan the other disk. Once you've got your IDE settings and an OS installed on the second disk ... of course.

[Glyn]

i did think about whipping his hard drve out and popping it into my machine that has got uup to date a.v on it but not knowing the exactr way a.v software works, didn't know if this was asking for trouble on my machine.

[Albie]

Hi as a temporary fix only when the shutdown pops up , Click start at bottom left , Click run, the type cmd and ok. When dos screen appears type after the c:/ documents and settings type shutdown.exe -a make sure there is a space between exe and -a and then press enter. This will abort shutdown then you can minimize it. Hope this helps then you can get on internet.

Andy

[Edited on 6-9-2004 by Albie]

[Glyn]

sounds good

[Albie]

Let me know if Ok

[chrisw]

This type of virus sometimes hides in the system restore file. You may want to try going into control panel, system,performance,system properties,file system and then check the disable restore box. Try rebooting your pc then.

If you have access to Norton Anti Virus 2004 or later try changing your bios settings so that your CD is shown as the first boot device. Put the NAV disc in the drive and reboot the pc. This should then load the NAV software in DOS mode. If you are lucky the virus may be known to NAV.

Hope this helps

[TP]

ahh, today's equivalent of the old boot disk ...

Nice ...

[Glyn]

cheers
all sorted once i could stay on internet for long enough to get a.v update was able to i.d virus as sasser.
well that was the one causing the shutdon, there were 3 others on there an all
then onto norton for a removal tool
then windows update page for security updates, all in all about 10 mins work.
IF I HAD A BROADBAND CONNECTION
so have sat here all evening playing solitare while puter downloaded about 2 years worth of updates.
fun or what.
thanks folks

[Albie]

Glad you got sorted. Hope I may have helped. Just reloaded my whole system because of that virus.