Got A Virus

[RossP]

I've got a Virus on my computer. At first, I thought it was the Blaster Worm, had it a couple of years ago, but i ran the symantec blaster worm removal, and said i did not have this virus on my pc. I also installed the microsoft patch for this virus/worm.

It comes up with a pop up message 'an error has occured in...blah blah blah...NT AUTHORITY/SYSTEM.

The system will shut down in

00:00:60

the error has occured in....'

so it proceeds to count the minute down, and then restarts my system. Norton antivirus cannot seem to find anything (and downloaded new definitions today...anybody offer any help? I can't seem to shift it!!

[+Steve]

i had this a while back

be carefull deleting anything... i ended screwing my PC up.

Saying that thats the way i got rid of it.

From what i can remember to gets onto your PC by using an open port.

[Gnome]

Check for the symptons of the virus at:

www.sophos.com

You can usually download removal tools from there too.

[Chyownster]

are computer apt i.e. know about msconfig etc?

[popwud]

Have you tried the anti-virus from ntl...its free...and avg from grisoft.com...also free. :)

[DaveSR]

We need to know which virus it is before we can help you out ....... if you can't be bothered to type it out do a 'screen dump' and post on here !

[selfbuild]

Boot into safe mode and then run your anti-virus software. Also run any anti spyware progs that you have that will run in safe mode.

I know HijackThis will propably find it but you will need to post the log first so we can identify it.

[RossP]

Well it's been 2 hours or so since it last 'appeared' so to speak, looks like i may have cleared it as it was occuring every 15 minutes or so before. Thanks for your help everybody