[RESOLVED] wininit.EXE infected

[bushby]

The other day Norton Antivirus 2000 warned me that the wininit.exe file had been infected with the W32.HLLW.Bymer virus and quaranitined it. Now every time i start up an MSdos box comes up saying you cannot start up this in windows. All the backgrounds in O.E and I.E are grey so are the writing fields. Should i put the wininit file back or some how replace it. :confused:

[furlong47]

http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.hllw.bymer.html

Here is info on this virus including removal instructions. Looks like this virus is one that is very common right about now.

[bushby]

Thanks a lot, i will try this :)

[condor]

I would recommend always having F-prot (it's a dos Antivirus)

you can get it from here

F-prot (ftp://ftp.f-secure.com/anti-virus/free/)

extract the Zip to c:\f-prot


you can always boot from a floppy and get to dos - it's very good - cleans just asbout anything..


make sure you update it :

Signature Update (ftp://ftp.datafellows.com/f-prot/update/f-prot/fp-def.zip)

Extract this file to c:\f-prot

Macro Virus Definitions (ftp://ftp.datafellows.com/f-prot/update/f-prot/dos/macro.def)

copy this file to c:\f-prot


enjoy

[Technichian]

I use f-prot too. and it is too good . It sure detects most of the modern viruses and guess what its free of cost.

Great tool for techs like us