The links are: ...............

ARGH!!! I still cant find a file in the folder prefetch!!! Help me!!!

I think I may have found another file name for the infected firus file.
In the instrunctions it says delete anything with winupdates in it.
I have a file called aupdate.exe that was created the same day as i obtained the virus. Could this be the file?

Hi all, I've had the same problem for a couple of weeks and it has been driving me crazy. I followed everyones directions but nothing would work, tried numerous anti virus programs and still nothing.

It wasnt until I noticed some strange folders that appeared on a couple of scans which i didnt reckonise, i couldnt find them even with hidden folders and files shown. I found 2 folders that contained 1000's of .zip folders that all contained virus's and where named after films and games. I found these in the below directories;

C:\Documents and Settings\James\Complete
C:\Uploads

I believe LW is picking these folders up and displaying them on searches. They all had a file called MOVIE, which is this stupid virus/worm

Both the above folders contained these .zip virus folders. I had to manually type the above in either DOS or in the address bar in Windows.

Once I deleted these folders I repeated the steps everyone suggested and found that I had a few virus/worms on my comp, there are

winupdate.
winupdates.
MsUpdate.
ms-update.

Once these where removed the problem stopped (well so far, fingers crossed)

Hope this helps any other fustrated users.

James

I found that folder with all those zipped folders with a file called movie in each of them.
It was like 1.3GB the folder!!!
Most of it was like in some latin or something language to....so its long gone now.
I found MSupdate too, its deleted.....
STILL GOT VIRUS!

the weirdest thing jst happened,

Norton just came on out of nowhere, and said that it found 2 virus' on my computer 'Winupdates' and "svchost' or something, repaired them, and now i can use the Ctrl+Alt+Del again, i have no idea how it found them or why it took this long but it seemed to fic everything!

have faith everyone, u never know when something might happen!

thanks for all the help on this forum too guys!

yeah!! it totally worked.. my worms were called the following:

msupdate.exe
ms-update.exe

it creeps up on you though because when you open up the task manager, it DOES NOT take up any processes % at all!! so please be aware of that!!


thanks so much you guys!!

lol! My ctrl + alt + delete task mrg works now too! But i still cant get rid of the system Idle process!

I had the same problem, basically:
- ctr+alt+del not working
- limewire popping up after i shut it down
- "complete" file appearing as shared folder on limewire with 25,000 zip files.

I tried EVERYTHING mentioned, and managed to find and delete te complete file but everything else stayed the same.

thanks to ravendhi though, i downloaded ewido, ran a quick scan andnow the problems sorted!

i have this same problem with limewire pro, cept i dont have this winupdate.exe thing anywhere ??