Hi again~
it's your Friendly Neighborhood Virus catcher
this time I seemed to have picked up the oh so NOT lovely
WORM Virus that attaches itself to emails/attachments
I think? the risk it says is 1-5 and it's a 5 risk (of course)
I would never get anything but the worst!
the name of this worm is;

WORMwin32,netsky

is their a cure for it?? can anyone Please help me get rid of
this icky yicky worm??

i USE WIN XP ~AOL free is my email
AVAST is my Virus protector. and I use Microsoft Security
essentials. I ran CC cleaner
MSE found 12 viruses & removed them, I have ran both virus scans 12 times so far and everytime I reboot the message
keeps coming up it found the Wormwin32.netsky on my
computer & it says I need to run a Full scan.
well I have run full scans 12 times. is their anything else I
can do??

Thank you very very much~Doc aka Karen

I used Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware-www.malwarebytes.org -the free download.

It may be a fake virus. Check this site:

http://www.symantec.com/security_response/writeup.jsp?docid=2004-021816-1759-99

I think Pokey meant a fake Anti-Virus. They are legion out there right now and yours is the real thing. I would follow kazzmo's suggestion and download, update and run Malwarebytes first. If that doesn't get rid of it, Pokey's link has a removal tool from Symantec.

Thank you all so very very much. I am downloading & running
the programs you told me to. So hopefully they will get rid of this icky worm. How will I know for sure if I have gotten rid of it??
I am going to buy a anti-virus program what do you guys use?
I have no idea which one to get can you help me out?

Thanks again you guys are GGGGREATT!!!

Hi Drac! got any good Norsky jokes??



Karen

Not right now, but if I get any Ole and Ida jokes, you will be the first to know!

Let us know how the Malwarebytes scan turns out. Right now I'm using Microsoft Security Essentials. Jenny recommended it to another member in another post.

Sorry it took so long to get back to ya~ I've had a LOT
of Dr's appt.s and scans and radiation treatments YUK!
sooo anywhoooo......the worm netsky is all gone
I ran the malwarebytes plus all the other ones.
when I ran the malwarebytes it found 17 things .
it said something about a C:/windows system/volume
that it couldn't get rid or fix..... what should I do about that??
will my other Virus scans AVAST and Microsoft security
essentials fix that one?? Thanks again for all you
GGGGreat help~Karen