Does anyone know about this virus? And more importantly, how do I get rid of it?

Norton's and Spybot cannot find /fix it- ZoneAlarm found it, but also cannot cope.

HELP!

UPDATE- It appears to be contained in this file... MTE1Mzc6ODoxMg.exe

Mmmm. What was I thinking. Edited to delete a try hard April Fools day post.

I expect you may have done a bit of research yourself by now ozzz but if not, there are some articles to read. This one for instance. It seems that only Kaspersky Antivirus (KAV) can get rid of this virus successfully.

I'm not very good at advising how to get rid of these things once you have them. I can only suggest ways of reducing the risk of getting caught in the first place.

How do you think you picked this one up?

Last bit first, TW; I did not pick it up via Email- I am very careful what I open there (Mailwasher helps a lot). I am pretty sure that it came from a website, but not sure which one.

I found that KAV program, and it looked rather complicated for a Luddite like me.

Looks like I may have to bite the bullet and see what happens with KAV.

Are you using Internet Explorer? This can be a security let-down on the wrong sites. Running it without locking it down a bit will land users in trouble once in a while. Have a read of this article and follow the links in it, especially the one that says, 'Disable Active Scripting in Internet Explorer'.

Alternatively, if you're not already using a browser other than IE, consider trying one or two out. There are a number to choose from. None are 100% safe but most won't so easily lead to the kind of trouble you have now.

It's best to have a very thorough read of the page on how to remove the virus. Especially take note of the part that says:

Quote:

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Press Ctrl + ALT+DEL and bring up task manager, go to processes tab and right click on explorer.exe and then select stop process

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The virus attaches itself to Explorer.exe. I'd think that if you tried to get rid of the virus with Windows Explorer running, you might end up deleting that as well. Then it could perhaps be format and reinstall time.

Perhaps other AV programs will be able to deal with this effectively soon.