Virus found but can't delete

[Mike]

I just ran Houecall Online Virus checker and it found the following:

Virus Found
DOS AGOBOT.HM

File Infected
C:\WINDOWS\system32\driver\etc\hosts

Claims it is non-cleanable.

My Norton stopped working and I unistalled it and re-installed it
again....in other words...HELP!!

Any help would be greatly appreciated...

Cheers
Mike

 

[Anthony Stokes]

in message > I just ran Houecall Online Virus checker and it
found the following:

Virus Found
DOS AGOBOT.HM
File Infected
C:\WINDOWS\system32\driver\etc\hosts
Claims it is non-cleanable.

It may be non-cleanable, but surely it could be deleted without using Norton
?

Ant.

 

[Captain Ron]

A simple search on symantec tells you all you need to know.

http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.hllw.polybot.html

 

[Tom R]

I just ran Houecall Online Virus checker and it found the following:

Virus Found
DOS AGOBOT.HM

File Infected
C:\WINDOWS\system32\driver\etc\hosts

Claims it is non-cleanable.

My Norton stopped working and I unistalled it and re-installed it
again....in other words...HELP!!

Any help would be greatly appreciated...

Cheers
Mike


You might want to run a "free" online virus scan,

http://www.pandasoftware.com/activescan/com/activescan_principal.htm

Another free online virus scanner I use is
"BitDefender"
http://www.bitdefender.com/scan/license.php

Good Luck,
Tom

 

[Conny]

I just ran Houecall Online Virus checker and it found the following:

Virus Found
DOS AGOBOT.HM

File Infected
C:\WINDOWS\system32\driver\etc\hosts

Claims it is non-cleanable.

My Norton stopped working and I unistalled it and re-installed it
again....in other words...HELP!!

Any help would be greatly appreciated...

Cheers
Mike

Just open the hosts file in a texteditor, if you don't have any special
settings it suppose to looks like this (Swedish version) the # b4 is
comment's:

# Copyright (c) 1993-1999 Microsoft Corp.

#

# Det här är HOSTS-exempelfilen som används av Microsoft TCP/IP för Windows.

#

# Den här filen innehåller mappningar av IP-adresser till värdnamn. Du bör

# inte ange fler än en post per rad. IP-adressen bör anges

# i den första kolumnen och följas av motsvarande värddatornamn.

# IP-adressen och värdnamnet måste åtskiljas av minst ett blanksteg.

#

# Kommentarer (som dessa) kan infogas på en egen rad eller

# efter ett datornamn. Kommentarer måste föregås av tecknet #.

#

# Till exempel:

#

# 102.54.94.97 rhino.acme.com # källserver

# 38.25.63.10 x.acme.com # klientvärddatorn x

127.0.0.1 localhost



In other words it just contatin

127.0.0.1 localhost