Virus?

Kappar

I think I might have a Virus or Viri!

What is happening is my Virus scanner AVG then i tryed Norton and that also keeps shuting down by itself when scanning and shortly after being opened. I think i may have a virus that's shutting the program down would i be right. Now anyone know how i can check if i have any and how to i remove them
I might add that for a time a had no scanner installed; i know, i know stupid "but it wil lnever happen to me"

Kappar

I think i've managed to run a scan of the C:\ drive which turned up nothing any other reason why this could be happening

Ste-

http://security.symantec.com/sscv6/home.asp?j=1&langid=ie&venid=sym&plfid=23&pkj=WVTMRHYTINMHDKDCWLL

online virus scanner might help

Kappar

Originally posted by dj_ste
http://security.symantec.com/sscv6/home.asp?j=1&langid=ie&venid=sym&plfid=23&pkj=WVTMRHYTINMHDKDCWLL

online virus scanner might help

K, tried two online scanners the fist gave this



Possible Virus. No disinfected

C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator.ATTIC\Start Menu\Programs\Startup\ddrive.js
Possible Virus. No disinfected

C:\Documents and Settings\Default User\Start Menu\Programs\Startup\ddrive.js
Possible Virus. No disinfected
C:\hp\bin\ddrive.js
Possible Virus. No disinfected

C:\WINDOWS\system32/divx.dll
Possible Virus. No disinfected

C:\WINDOWS\system32/divxdec.ax
Trj/HotKeys Disinfected
C:\WINDOWS\system32/H@tKeysH@@k.DLL
Possible Virus. No disinfected
\hp\patches\24WW0DDR\ddrive.js



then the symantec one said there was no virii but the problom is still there anyone got a clue?

Ste-

Tried restarting the anti-virus or re-installing ?
All I can think of atm sorry.

LoLth

try a virus scan in safe mode. THat'll make sure that only one av scanner is running and stop and viri from interfering with your software.

Kappar

Originally posted by LoLth
try a virus scan in safe mode. THat'll make sure that only one av scanner is running and stop and viri from interfering with your software.

Right just tried that and with the latest updates to norton and in safe mode it was not being disabled and ran a complete scan twice but it came up negitive, no virii went back into normal mode and it's still happening. So could it still be a virus or something else? anyone got any idea? please help cause my hp recovery partion is curupt so i really don't wanna do a reinstall cause the XP install is on that.

LoLth

going by the files you listed above,

try having a look :

http://www.trendmicro.com/vinfo/virusencyclo/default5.asp?VName=TROJ_HOTKEYHOOK

Kappar

I think i might have fixed it by a process of elimination by closing processes with ctrl+alt+del a process called vdms.exe was causing the problom i have disabled it from starting in msconfig but before deleting it from the windows directory i'd like to now what it is i googled it and there isn't much on it, there is talk of a virus but it's in a different languge so i can't read it. Anyone know what it is? thanks

Kappar

K here's and update i submitted the file to symantec even though NAV said there was no virus the got back to me and said they found Trojan.OptixKiller in the file and that they are adding it to there beta update. So i feel good and and upstanding guy right now.