Deleting a Protected File?

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Guest

Guys, Can any one help me on this??

I need to delete an infected file which is protected by the system,
'C:\WININT\System32\saristar.dll', it is a dialer which has nested itself the
system. I can not Diasable the System Restore (like with Windows XP ) because
I run Windows 2000 Professional version. My antivirus program can't delete it
either.

Does anybody know how I can remove this file???

Thanks in Advance
 
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Dave Patrick

It's not protected by anything natively. You'll have to kill the process
that loads it first.

--
Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect

:
| Guys, Can any one help me on this??
|
| I need to delete an infected file which is protected by the system,
| 'C:\WININT\System32\saristar.dll', it is a dialer which has nested itself
the
| system. I can not Diasable the System Restore (like with Windows XP )
because
| I run Windows 2000 Professional version. My antivirus program can't delete
it
| either.
|
| Does anybody know how I can remove this file???
|
| Thanks in Advance
|
|
 
J

James Mawson

Dave Patrick said:
It's not protected by anything natively. You'll have to kill the process
that loads it first.

--
Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect

:
| Guys, Can any one help me on this??
|
| I need to delete an infected file which is protected by the system,
| 'C:\WININT\System32\saristar.dll', it is a dialer which has nested
itself
the
| system. I can not Diasable the System Restore (like with Windows XP )
because
| I run Windows 2000 Professional version. My antivirus program can't
delete
it
| either.
|
| Does anybody know how I can remove this file???
|
| Thanks in Advance
|
|
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Boot to a safe command prompt, then delete it.

James Mawson
www.dirctsos.co.uk
 

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