I have a damn Virus!

Can you system restore to a clean day?

Have you checked your file systems for DLL's of same name and deleted them? If you can do that, and prevent them from loading, then something like CCLEANER will likely find and remove any other registry stubs calling them.

Also, I assume you are experienced enough to run with system restore off, clean temp files under \docs and settings\user\local settings\temp etc., windows temp, jar files, clear perftech cache, etc. I presume you run with a good firewall, like ZoneAlarm? Do you have windows Defender installed and set to run on a nightly basis?

You may want to do this stuff in safe mode or you can simply endtask all the non-essential crap, er um components Windows runs as part of the background.

System restore is useless, takes space and basically just provides a hiding spot for virii and other malware to continually reinfect you, *IF* you back up your data routinely to something like an external drive.

Well, these shouldn't be bad enough that you can't get rid of them. they came into the wild circa late December 08...steps to get rid of them seem pretty basica, keyed by finding the DLL's they're spawning from (of same name)

It may be that the file is gone or moved elsewhere?, but still being called from registry. Have you ever used ccleaner?

Also looks like these are updates to trojan.vundo

Look for LEZAWINO.DLL and delete.

I bet you cant get into ctrl alt delete, either. that's what I had way back. Nothing detected it. I had to reformat.

Well, ZA won't find a virus, it's a firewall. It'll sure help you stop from getting them however.

Download CCLeaner and do an iterative scan / fix of registry issues to see if that fixes anything.

Download malware anti bytes or anti malmare byes (one of those, i cant remember) it will get rid of your virus pretty easily.

I use it whenever i get a virus and it gets rid of it everytime

This, Brandon?

http://www.malwarebytes.org/

Yup, thats it

thankss

No problem. Are you back in Texas, or still enjoying the frigid NY temperatures?

Still in NY. im actually standing in times square

Yep...that is supposed to be pretty good.

I don't have a PC that I don't run ZA and some antivirus on, be it Norton, AVG, etc. System restore is not allowed to run, data is backed up nightly (and automatically) to an external drive using SyncToy. Windows Defender is on with nightly scans and I periodically run CCLeaner and check the appropriate registry keys where things try to insert themselves. Also, eveything runs behind a hardware firewall in my router. Save for the Antivirus, all of that is free (and highly effective).