Thanks alot, i have done another scan today and no sign of the virus. thanks again for your support and patience

thanks, i have done that and no virus yet after 2 scans. i am crossing my fingers

i think i was a bit hasty in the last scan after i returned system restore and hidden view of the hidden files, i again found
trojan horse IRC/BackDoor.sdBot.DHV in
c:system volume...

I think we finally did. we got rid of it :) . i did 2 scans yesterday one with avg and the other with norton and nothing was found. pc is acting normally (except of the oddly found new hardware...

I think we finally did. we got rid of it :) . i did 2 scans yesterday one with avg and the other with norton and nothing was found. pc is acting normally (except of the oddly found new hardware...

i ran rootkitrevealer and it came up with 6 discrepencies, but when i saved the results i couldn't find where the file went so i ran it again but it came with only 5. the last one was missing, later...

ok, i'll do that. but i want to tell u that after i enabled view hidden files. i found the file system32\msdirectx and deleted it. i rebooted and ran avg. no viruses norton found a spybot virus in...

i did what u told me. i didn't find mywebsearch, i ran hijackthis and fixed the 4 items u told me, but then i didn't find windows\ptcqqwd.exe (even after viewing hidden files). i reboote then ran...

thanks very much, i'll print that and i'll send u the logfile

Hi, i did an online trendmicro scan and it came out with no virusses or trojons but there was one spyware and 12 security vulnerability (Or something like that). then i ran hijack with the logfile i...

ok, thanks for the info, here is the second logfile

Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1
Scan saved at 5:40:13 PM, on 6/23/2005
Platform: Windows XP (WinNT 5.01.2600)
MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00...

i read once that i should do that b4 scanning to avoid returning of virus from old restore points :o , was that right or was i misinformed :eek:
anyway i'll return it back to normal and send...

ok, i have done that. then what? i disabled system restore. should i run it now from new folder or there is another step to b4 that

ok, let's try it. but i have no idea how to do what u r saying :o :)
but i should say that i already deleted all files in the window's temp folder
is that bad or good :?:

and what does that mean, can't i remove it from there?

here's the log file of hijack this. I can't understand anything :rolleyes:

Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1
Scan saved at 3:28:52 PM, on 6/22/2005
Platform: Windows XP (WinNT 5.01.2600)
MSIE:...

Hi, sorry that i posted my problem in another thread :o , but i thought as long as its the same problem, may be i will benfit from same reply. sorry again.

I have a PIII with windows XP. i got...

Hi all. I came to this forum having the same problem. norton is continuosly displaying virus alert in system32\msdirectx.sys file with the hacktool virus. a then downloaded avg antivirus. it detected...