I got a virus last night, and I ran Norton AntiVirus (fully updated). It opens a command console which takes up a bunch of your cpu, and it creates copies of itself in the folder you activated it from. I got it from Kazaa, it is 19 or so KB, and labelled as an .exe, claiming to be a bunch of different things.

If you have it, you know deleting its copies doesn't stop it. To get rid of it, go to My Computer, Windows, System32, and delete explorer32.exe (trust me, its not a windows thing. Just check when it was created). Then delete all of the copies, and viola, no virus (I don't know what registry entries it made, though).

Originally posted by Chris
I got a virus last night, and I ran Norton AntiVirus (fully updated). It opens a command console which takes up a bunch of your cpu, and it creates copies of itself in the folder you activated it from. I got it from Kazaa, it is 19 or so KB, and labelled as an .exe, claiming to be a bunch of different things.

If you have it, you know deleting its copies doesn't stop it. To get rid of it, go to My Computer, Windows, System32, and delete explorer32.exe (trust me, its not a windows thing. Just check when it was created). Then delete all of the copies, and viola, no virus (I don't know what registry entries it made, though).


What's the name of the virus?

did you report it to norton?

It changes its name, usually to a game name or porn. I didn't report(stupid!) but I was pissed off because it was really slowing down my comp.