ANTI-VIRUS/WORM/TROJAN/ADWARE

We got hit with a worm called AGOBOT and it was taking up CPU resources on our Windows PC. You can tell because the pointer changes to an arrow-with-hourglass ("Working in Background") for 5 out of every 30 seconds.

Via Google Groups, we found out how to clean it out. There are two free tools that can do the job and should be part of your kit (in addition to ad-aware and spybot).

They are:

• McAfee's stinger
• TrendMicro's sysclean

Details can be found here: http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html

That website has other resources and get's techie at points, but it might be a good idea to bookmark the website for future reference.

In our running of the two utilities, stinger found some virus/worms but not AGOBOT.     sysclean found AGOBOT (but that was all it found, maybe because stinger was run before it was).

stinger and sysclean are highly recommended.

posted by Quiddity at 5/27/2005 01:50:00 AM