What does the killer.exe virus do? How do we remove it??

Question

I had this virus infecting my PC. It would "hide" all running programs while they would still continue running in the background. It even disabled taskmanager.Please tell me how do I look out for this thing and how do I remove it?????

Answer 1

The virus named killer.exe resides on c:\windows\killer.exe

Bootup in safe mode command prompt

delete the file

c:\>del c:\windows\killer.exe

To make sure you have remove all the infected files.

Use Clamwin anti-virus

ClamWin is a Free Antivirus for Microsoft Windows

that uses the GNU General Public License by the Free Software

Foundation and is free (as in freedom) software.

Clamwin's programmers designed an unique scanning engine that no other

antivirus has so it increases the chances of malware getting detected.

The scanning engine scan everyfiles like it is searching for head lices

with a tooth comb.

There is a portable version of ClamWin where it can be install into an USB thumb drive.

You can install in a USB drive as small as 128 MB.

First use another PC to download Clamwin portable anti-virus

and install Clamwin portable on a USB thumb drive.

http://portableapps.com/apps/utilities/c...

How to configure ClamWin

http://support.real-time.com/open-source...

Update the latest anti-virus definition files.

Set the preferences to delete or move virus to a quarantine folder.

Boot up in safe mode on the infected PC.

If possible, disable system restore on the infected PC.

Use the USB drive with Clamwin Anti-virus installed to scan the infected PC.

Scan all hard drives for viruses.

Answer 2

http://forums.techguy.org/malware-remova...

Here's a good place to start for a removal and info.