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[Guest]

My Loaded norton anti virus software has dedected a Trojan Simcss B virus in my system msl agent exe file which virus could not be repaired ; but to delete the file. The problem is that its a system file ' .Please can someone tell me what would happen if i delete this file and if i can re install the file back?

 

[DC]

Copy the same file from other computer, SO SP and so on, similar to
your, to a flopy. Then copy it in your computer (overwrite)

 

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi,

Mslagent.exe is the trojan itself, and you need to get rid of both it and
the registry reference that loads it. See this from Symantec on removing it
properly:
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/trojan.simcss.b.html

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Win9x
Windows isn't rocket science! That's my other hobby!

Associate Expert - WinXP - Expert Zone

 

[Richard Urban]

He won't find it on another computer unless, it also, is infected with the
same virus! Why would you even tell him to do this?

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Regards:

Richard Urban

aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard

 

[Alex Nichol]

My Loaded norton anti virus software has dedected a Trojan Simcss B virus in my system msl agent exe file which virus could not be repaired ; but to delete the file. The problem is that its a system file ' .Please can someone tell me what would happen if i delete this file and if i can re install the file back?

Find the file and rename it to a different extension, like .bade so it
can't run. It is not the name of any legitimate windows file on my
machine, so I strongly suspect that it is in fact a virus/trojan,
pretending to be one. Reboot, and if nothing complains then you can go
ahead and delete. This BTW would also be the course if it *was* a
critical system file - the protection mechanism would then restore a
clean copy, and after rebooting to bring that into use, you can delete
the renamed one