Victory is Mine! over Win32 Trat Bho

Posted by Ronan on Jan 29, 2008 in Uncategorized | 2 comments

I don’t like windows because it every idiot can write a virus to attack one of the many vulnerabilities. One super-idiot put the win32 Trat BHO virus together. For the past 3 weeks my Avast would detect it and try to delete it. It couldn’t as the virus attaches itself to winotify.exe by creating random named .dll files (ddlfed.dll) to the .exe. (any attempt to ‘unlock’ and delete the dll file causes windows to crash). I tried everything, every spam/spyware/viral detector/remover.. but all are no good. At last I got rid of it. Here is how – with pointers from www.techspot.com.

Get the LATEST version of ComboFix.exe . Download it to the Desktop (this is important!). Disable all network connections. Stop Avast by right mouse clicking the Avast tray icon and click ‘Stop On-Access Protection’ and run ComboFix. You’ll need to click one or two buttons.. then let it run. It will identify the bad .dll’s (it spawns!) and forces a reboot. Let ComboFix.exe do it stuff on reboot and don’t start any application until the log file shows. At this stage you should be clean of this annoying little virus.. Victory is Mine!