I went up to "processes" step, and so far have not seen anything taking up almost 100% of my usage other than System Idlr Process. This virus is still taking its effect and i cant seem to stop it, i unintsalled limewire, java and still am getting errors. Im Using a Windows XP. Any ideas?

I have eradicated the winupdates virus according to your steps (thanks a million, BobbyNaini!) but I still cannot bring up the task manager by pressing CTRL-ALT-DELETE. Is there a menu where I can turn this back on, or do you think I have another virus?

Like BlueDragon56 the only process I had running more than 1% & and at 99% was the idle Process! I couldnt see any winupdates file so I tried downloading the free demo software of Kaspersky Anti-Virus and it seemed to remove it! It also noted something interesting! When scanning my hard drive it scanned an invisible dir called "Complete" in my "C:\MY Documents\Admin\" of which I never saw before especially as my Documents is on a totally seperate drive. The folder was filled with 8GB of Zip files of which all had pornographic names! I wonder if this was affects of the virus as I defenitly dont allow porn to be on this PC at anytime!

I'm the same as above, i have the smae problem, but there is nothing eating my CPU... WHAT THE HELLB IS GOING ON??? if you could help i'd be really grateful...

Uninstall LimeWire and your current AntiVirus Software (to avoid your PC crashing later) and download Kaspersky Anti-Virus and install and run it! After a clean uninstall that software then reinstall your original AntiVirus and LimeWire and see if that helps

Good luck mate and hope that helps you! A hell of a lot of us got the same virus one way or another!


Regards
The Bishop

All of you still probably still have the virus

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So if thats the case logic says

"We always had the virus to begin with!"

Sorry Mystical moment! I found that as I didnt have readings out of worry in my Proccesses tab and ran the anti virus software than re-installed LimeWire and been ok since it has worked!

If not for you then sorry!


Regards
Bishop!

Don't quite get what you are saying.

No you didn't always have the virus I did not say that. And yes it is a good Idea to uninstall your AV some viruses have the capability to disable the ability for certain AV to find them once you have opened the file and become infected.

There is no reason to uninstall LimeWire it is not infected. The infected file / files may be in the share or incoming folders but uninstalling LimeWire does not remove those files / folders.

If a person is still getting new multiple copies of files the same size without downloading them then they are still infected.

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A little common sense goes a long way

Later Grandpa

I only uninstalled the software as per original cure posted by someone else earlier! I fully agree its not the program that infected but the shared files downloaded. The reason we uninstalled the software is to avoid it keep popping up and slowing the antivirus software part!

Sorry to confuse you gramps!


Regards
Bishop

Thanks for clearing that up now it makes sense.

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