Karina.dat Please help. I am having problems finding a solution to the removal of this virus.

Question

My antivirus deletes but the files but they reappear. I have read alot about other people having the issues with the virus but no remedy has solved my issue.The karina.dat and buritos.exe files seem to come right back after deletion which I have come to believe are a trojan virus. I have gone into registry editor and cannot find these files from the directions that have been given to me. I managed to fix the hidden tabs in Display Properties but I still have the red circle with an x in my taskbar that activates a pop up and still have the actual files in my computer. Please help!!!

Answer 1

I'm afraid you're in for a bit of a fight with this one, it can be pretty tricky to get rid of but all is not lost. I suggest you start (and possibly ask for help if needed) here:

http://forums.majorgeeks.com/showthread....

Another option would be to use your Windows XP boot CD to boot to the Recovery Console and manually delete the files causing your problems...(example: C:\Windows\buritos.exe and C:\Windows\System32\buritos.exe).

Good luck.

Answer 2

Edit karina.dat using a basic text editor. Delete everything inside karina.dat so that it is an empty file. Delete buritos.exe. Reboot. Delete karina.dat. Problem solved.

Answer 3

Hi i think the only sure way off getting rid of the virus/trojans is to reformat im sorry to say . I know its drastic but you know they all be deleted, before you reformat get the product key usually at the back of the pc and save all your files you want to disc. I dont know what OS your using but you find how to on a site.

hope this helps

good luck

Answer 4

Try the instructions at this link - they seemed to fix this problem:  http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/malware-...

The process is pretty easy, and seems to have worked.  Good luck.