Google and me

I got some virus in my Computer called Annew-Fam Worm. I got the information from my Spybot program otherwise I never would have seen it.

The only problem I see is that only one program has information of it? Normally it is a well known virus that everybody knows about. Some might even suggest that they made it to make money.

But anyway I wanted to get rid of the virus so I run all my Virus program like Nod32, Windows Defender and similar programs but none of them could find anything.

Finally I downloaded Sophos Anti-Rootkit, Threat Detection Test , Application Discovery Tool you don’t have to give them your real email it will take you to the download page anyway.

They all found something but could not delete it so I had to register and get a password to download the real software.

I downloaded Sophos Anti-Virus SBE 2.5 free trial and you need to give them a valid email and you need to take away Simple File Sharing in XP, this Windows Help page will show you how to do that if you don’t know.

I am now running the file and I will let you know if the program worked in next post it says I have to restart.

Annew-Fam Worm does this to your computer
* Allows others to access the computer
* Downloads code from the internet
* Reduces system security
* Installs itself in the Registry

The Info from SPYBOT Program

Current filename: “C:\Program Files\MSN Messenger\msnmsgr.exe” /background

Database status: Typically not required
Value: msnmsgr
Filename: msnmsgr.exe

Description
MSN Messenger (now superseeded by _Windows Live Messenger_ Preferences and uncheck “Run this program when Windows starts”

Source: Paul Collins Startup list
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Current filename: “C:\Program Files\MSN Messenger\msnmsgr.exe” /background

Database status: Not required - virus, spyware, malware or other resource hog
Value: msnmsgr
Filename: MsnMsgrs.exe

Description
Added by the _NETSKY-AD_ WORM!

Source: Paul Collins Startup list
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Current filename: “C:\Program Files\MSN Messenger\msnmsgr.exe” /background

Database status: Not required - virus, spyware, malware or other resource hog
Value: msnmsgr
Filename: msnmsgr.exe

Description
Added by the _ANNEW-FAM_ WORM! Note - this is not the valid MSN Messenger utility

Source: Paul Collins Startup list