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On Mon, 2009-07-20 at 17:17 +0100, kevin wrote: > On Mon, 2009-07-20 at 17:05 +0100, Simon Williams wrote: > > kevin wrote: > > > Hi all and welcome to some more noobies! > > > does any one have experience of editing using linux a Winxp Reg file? or > > > know if Knoppix can do it, away from the Machine? > > > > > > I am plagued by my Father currently re acquiring this Trojan virus > > > which infects Services.exe and changes userinit.exe in the system32 > > > folder. I get him to delete the files using dual boot and Linux but he > > > baulks at editing the reg to remove the line which points to the Trojan > > > like this. > > > > Have you tried malwarebytes? I do a lot of virus removal at work, and it > > almost never fails, including stopping them coming back. > > > No I have been trying to get him to remove this using the reg but so far > he has managed to delete the userinit.exe and broke his login. So no > windows for a minute. > > Ill try to get malwarebytes for him if he can drop it from Linux to his > Win disk. > He also cant find the Dir which holds the Original Files which the Virus > keeps spawning from so we may be here a while..... > > > Regards > > Kevin Lucas > Minions Post Master(Sub) reprieved (possibly!) > Po House, Minions, > Liskeard Cornwall > PL14 5LE > 01579363386 > I have got him now to a point where a scan with malwarebytes has shown up a Trojan in c:\programfiles\relaventknowledge\ so I have asked him to boot back in to Linux and zap it in to oblivion. I can't think how may people spend however many hours sorting out these troubles on Windoze. At least with Linux it's only Freezing browsers or not ever getting your hardware to work! Thanks for the tip. > Regards Kevin Lucas Minions Post Master(Sub) reprieved (possibly!) Po House, Minions, Liskeard Cornwall PL14 5LE 01579363386 -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html