----- Original Message -----
Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2000 4:38 PM
Subject: Virus - Red Alert! Name ---NAVIDAD--
DO NOT TRY TO OPEN THE ATTACHMENT NAVIDAD.EXE
If you already open it..no
worried..you already infected..do the following below..
Symptoms : Windows pop up
looking for WINSVRC.EXE..cannot find programs
..
- Click on Start|Programs|MS-DOS Prompt.
- Type the DOS command below then press "ENTER"
Ren
regedit.exe regedit.com (Note: This renaming is only temporary and is
necessary to be able to run Regedit)
- Type exit, then press "ENTER" to return to Windows.
- Click on Start|Run, type regedit, then press ENTER.
- In the left panel of the Registry Editor, click on the
“+” at left of the names to go to the registry
below:
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\exefile\shell\open\ command
- In the right panel, double-click on the entry with the
data
(Default) = “%systemdir%\WINSVRC.EXE”%1””%*” where %systemdir%
is the Windows system directory; i.e., \WINDOWS\SYSTEM for Win 9x, and
\WINNT\SYSTEM32 for NT/2K.
- In the Edit window that appears, delete the entire
first part of the string, leaving behind “%1”%*”.
- As in step 5, go to the registry entry below:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\ Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
- Click on the entry below, then press
"DELETE"
Win32BaseServiceMOD = %systemdir%\WINSVRC.EXE
- Click on Start|Programs|MS-DOS Prompt
- Type the DOS command below then press "ENTER"
Ren
regedit.com regedit.exe
- Scan your system with Norton or go to http://housecall.antivirus.com/pc_housecall/ and
delete all files detected as TROJ_NAVIDAD.A.
Thank you!
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