Wondering if anyone here as any insight on dealing with the StartPage-DU infection. I've performed a number of scans, located it twice and believe I have it removed but I've noticed an operational sluggishness since its discovery.
Any information on where to search for the file, how to remove it safely and how to track down any damaged files would be appreciated.
Insidious little bug, my first in 10 years of operation and, while I know I've been lucky more than smart at keeping these things out of my system, I would really like to KNOW it's gone...
here's what were gonna do, do you have a system restore on your machine? If you do there's why it keeps coming back. First go into regedit go to the edit key, clickit, highlight the find key, click it when the window pops up type in the name of the virus just the name nothing else. If your virus is in there that will find it. Delete the file or files asscoiated with it. then with the restore on do a disk clean, look under the more options tab to remove all restore points(thats in XP) which with these instructions I hope you have. Then go into control panel and turn off system restore you don't really need it anyhow, most viruses tend to write themselves in there for the very reason for what your experiencing. If i seem rambling it's because it's 1:00 AM where I'm at and I cannot sleep. Good luck and keep me posted on your progress!
Eagle
DEATH to all VIRUS writers AND those who unleash them on the world!
Ah, a scholar AND a gent, I 'preciate the contact.
Did the regedit thing and there it was in all its ugly glory. I took great pleasure in scragging its malevolent butt and hope that has done the trick. I will certainly let you know if it rears its ugly head and we need to go to Phase II.
You are most welcome sir, your responce was most gracious. and look foward to hearing from you on other matters that don't require geek think. remember to update your OS, and your anti virus.
be well stay healthy, and y'all come back now ya hear! LOL
Well now. It seems our insidious little bast**d is back, along with a new friend, BackDoor-CFB. At least that's what McAfee is telling me every few seconds or so but as yet I am unable to find the .dll files they point to...
done REGEDIT
Gone into DOS
Downloaded and used a McAfee DailyScan and it found it, said it killed it, and then it came back. System Restore is disabled and I'm working in SAFE mode when I attempt the fix but these things are STICKY...
It's been around a week now, anyone with a solid idea for a fix besides starting the machine over from scratch?
Your getting hit quite regularly aren't you JD, try this Scrap Macaffee and get bullguard also you might want to think about getting spyware removers. since we talked last i've downloaded mozilla firefox From www.mozilla.org/downloads it's incredible won't stop all viruses but does good job on spyware. good luck and let me know.
Well, back to full functionality. Machine running smoothly after running a trendmicro removal tool for the insidious Troj_agent.j virus.
Went into safe mode and blasted it, ran down a few .dll files and scragged them, too and now the machine is up and running like the old daze.
Trend micro lists the BackDoor-CFB and StartPage-DU scum as low risk but I'll tell you they really get your dander up!
I've had AdAware up and Spybot up (they overlap and conflict a bit, don't they?) and believe me I keep them current. But this thing, well, may the fleas of a thousand camels infest the darkest recesses and cavities of the pond scum who wrote these viruses. I spent two and a half days on it and I'm going to go out and get a drink and toast its removal.
Thanks for all help and insight... I can say that there are a lot of opinions out there and few of them are viable.
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