Greg, my favourite technique for restarting explorer is:
CTRL-SHIFT-ESC to bring up Task Manager. Kill explorer.exe, then pull
down File, New Task and launch explorer.exe ... This works especially
well when you reboot but get no desktop. Also good things to launch are
cmd (and WinFile.exe brough
Keep it off the network as much as possible.
Also a software firewall (like Zone Alarm) will help control the "phone
home for updates".
Another tool I used for those "really hard to remove stains", is
KillBox. You can give it a list of files to be deleted at the start of
the next boot.
I've
Oh, yes, and a few more
tips:
Configure the IE
preferences on the Tools, Options, Advanced tab:
In the Browsing
section:
UNCHECK "Enable Install
on Demand (Internet Explorer)"
UNCHECK "Enable Install
on Demand (Other)"
UNCHECK "Enable 3rd party
browser extensions (requires restart)"
While the site you are looking for is
called www.virustotal.com, here are steps you will probably have to take:
Basically what you will end up doing is
first finding what the registry key for it is, what is the actual executable
name, restart the computer in safe mode, and delete or re
To scan a file with a
bunch of different scanners and get a single report from all of them, use this
site:
http://www.virustotal.com/
And if you want to see
what a malicious file does, use this site:
http://sandbox.norman.no/live.html
And the best way to get
rid of a file like that i
At one time i saw a post about a site that you can upload and it will scan
it with
the "popular" scanners and check it..
I have this evil little program that i can't remove from a users computer,
and i have done
everything.. It keeps "Renaming" itself on termination..
It spawns under explo
