Gaobot virus and a screwed up system

[Christian]

My system is messed up and I could use some adult supervision. I believe I have a Gaobot virus. when I try to scdan my system with Symantec AntiVirus my system crashes. When I scan using an server based scanner my system crashes.

Sound familiar. BTWAre there ant free registry cleaners

 

[Nubius]

Format. That sounds like a bad virus. So I would say that is your best bet

 

[Harper]

FDISK
FORMAT C:
INSTALL WINDOWS
and Start from Scratch.

That virus wasted 3/4 of my working day yesterday. After apply a few service packs and manually removing the bugger from the system, i found that I would of been a faster just to back up what was important, format the drive and start over.

Gaobot is a real tricky bastard to remove because there is a lot of varients for it.

When you get your system back up and running, apply service pack 2 and update your virus scanner before doing any thing else.

Apart from that. GOOD LUCK.

 

[Nubius]

if he's got XP all he's gotta do is pop in the XP disk and make sure the CD-ROM is first in the boot sequence.

 

[Raphael Argus]

Do you need Service Pack 2 to protect against this virus? I've been holding back updating to it, I noticed a few problems with some games on my second PC which does have SP2.

 

[vance43211]

FDISK
FORMAT C:
INSTALL WINDOWS
and Start from Scratch.

That virus wasted 3/4 of my working day yesterday. After apply a few service packs and manually removing the bugger from the system, i found that I would of been a faster just to back up what was important, format the drive and start over.

Gaobot is a real tricky bastard to remove because there is a lot of varients for it.

When you get your system back up and running, apply service pack 2 and update your virus scanner before doing any thing else.

Apart from that. GOOD LUCK.

i got a friend who refuse to let me show him how to erase a hard drive with an XP disc. he is a stubborn guy who is set in his way and he don't like change

 

[vance43211]

http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.gaobot.removal.tool.html