Pc Virus...?

My friends pc is infected with win32.rundll virus.he has norton & spysweeper protection on his pc.we tried to delete the registry entries of the virus,but it seems to be blocking or hiding in the registry.how can we get rid of it.

This is added as a result of the SDBOT worm. I listed a source to the averttools from McAfee. What you want is the stand-alone removal tool called Stinger v3.8.0. Don't forget to check out the rest of their site for any additional removal processes if you are going to try and do it manually.

I decided to edit my answer after reading some of the others. You do NOT have to reinstall windows and Macs do get viruses. I would recommend checking your system restore as well but you do not have to do an actual restore.

I have removed this worm and many of its variants over the years from my customers machines and networks without ever having to do a system restore or reinstall the OS. After cleaning/removing this worm, make sure your system is up to date with patches and your security application(s) are also updated.

format and reinstall windows. the computer will run better anyway, so it's worth it.

AVG/kaspersky/zonealarm check them out

You have winfixer. Google it. It is possible to get rid of, but very hard, and time consuming. I got the same thing and figured out it is easiest to simply backup valuable data, then reformat and reinstall the os.

Sorry.

Oh, one thing to keep in mind. Next time you buy a computer, but a mac, they don't get viruses and have these sorts of issues. I bought a macbook last time and am SO HAPPY I did.

spyware doctor + serials.ws = no virus's

I would say if you dont want to format the disk and delete all your stuff, only restore windows on older days, when there was no virus there. If you really have to format, backup all the important stuff first.

Physically remove remove the infected hard drive from the computer, then connect it as a slave in another computer and run a full scan on it to delete the virus. Cumbersome solution, but it works.

OMG had this not too long ago. I absolutely could not get rid of it!!!! I had do to what Dave says. There are a lot of antispy, ad, and virus geek-made website that have forums. Hijackthis might help with forum support. I think I got mine from trying to download psp games on limewire. I just had to totally wipe out windows and start all over. Sorry dude.

It would be worth disabling the system restore as the virus can often be hiding there and come back after your clean up attempts. Right Click my computer then go to properties then disable system restore. Try again with all the usual kill the virus techniques I'm sure you already know!

It is most likely hiding in your restore partition.

Make sure both Norton's and Spysweeper are up to date, and if you have Windows Defender, that too. Disable restore (Start-Access- system tools- Restore) and reboot.

Run both Norton's and Spysweeper, and you might also like to try a couple of on-line scanners. Norton's may have a specific tool for removing this nasty so go to their web site.

When you have run all your anti virus progs. reboot.

Enable restore again, and reboot.

hire a pc tech if you want to keep your programs and settings or just backup data and wipe/reload.

People don't realize how difficult virus and spyware infections have become and still want to fix things themselves. We do online virus removal and it takes us about 4-6 hours to do a complete virus cleaning.