Hey Folks,

I started up my PC tonight, and McAfee found a worm called W32/Poebot.dam

I have tried to clean, quaretine and delete the file, but it is not able to do any of those. So...I logged into Symantec, tried an online scan with that, and it didn't even detect the virus at all
I have logged into McAfee support, and was directed via an online assist to a page to deal with new viruses etc.....and guess what....all services are closed for today

Is there anything I could do here, or is the best option to just wait until tomorrow and see if McAfee can sort it

:grrrrr:

Oh. I thought this was going to be about a tapeworm. I could have helped you with that.
[Edited 10/12/05 12:15pm]

minneapolisgenius said:

funny thats what i thought too

brownsugar said:

if this doesn't work, i don't know what will.

sinisterpentatonic said:

AdamB said:

Try downloading AVG Antivirus...there's a free version and it's worked very very well for us.

minneapolisgenius said:

sinisterpentatonic said:

You dont know how close I came to getting mine

EskomoKisses said:

Thanks Eskomo....I managed to get a freeware virus thing which did the trick Thanks for the advice

Try 2 scan here on line:

http://housecall.trendmicro.com/

Thats a good one!

Oh, I thought you had a worm!
[Edited 10/12/05 14:31pm]

CynthiasSocks said:

Least I know who to ask if I do get one Cheers

It's not a good idea to run two different Antivirus programs simultaneously. If you're going to try something like AVG, you should take McAfee off first.

There's a tool I came across that will remove several recent viruses/worms, and among the list is poebot. Might be worth trying...

http://www.softpedia.com/...tool.shtml

"The F-Bot utility disinfects computers infected with all known by March 2005 variants of the following backdoors:
· Wootbot (also known as Backdoor.Win32.Wootbot)
· Agobot (also known as Backdoor.Win32.Agobot)
· Forbot (also known as Backdoor.Win32.Forbot)
· Rbot (also known as Backdoor.Win32.Rbot)
· Spybot (also known as Worm.P2P.Spybot)
· IRCBot (also known as Backdoor.Win32.IRCBot)
· SDBot (also known as Backdoor.Win32.SdBot)
· Poebot (also known as Backdoor.Win32.Poebot)
· Codbot (also known as Backdoor.Win32.Codbot)

The F-Bot utility can also disinfect computers that are infected with new variants of these backdoors, however disinfection will only work if these variants are detected generically by AVP engine."

brownsugar said:

Me three! Great minds thinking alike here.

minneapolisgenius said:

I was thinking computer-type worm, myself.

I guess I'm just a .

psychodelicide said:

Me fourth!

Lets go fishing!

smellmyfunk said:

Another great mind!

I remember when my parent's cat had a tapeworm, it was nasty!

psychodelicide said:

minneapolisgenius said:

In what way? Got some rubber gloves?

HamsterHuey said:

Sure.

minneapolisgenius said:

I just hear Vanity on Vibrator; You and your rubber gloves!

HamsterHuey said:

It's always handy to have an extra pair of rubber gloves around.

minneapolisgenius said:

"Yes. Please bend over, Mr Hamster. We are going to try to locate where Mr Gere has gone to."

HamsterHuey said: