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how do you get rid of the watermark.exe virus
bigbravedave - 28/11/10 at 08:48 PM

how do you get rid of the watermark.exe virus?

ive tried mcafee and anti malware and still no joy, any ideas,

many thanks

RichardK - 28/11/10 at 08:53 PM

I've always found the eset online scanner to be helpful

http://www.eset.com/online-scanner

Cheers

Rich

T66 - 28/11/10 at 08:56 PM

www.bleepingcomputer.com


search for it and follow the instructions, someone will have had it before you..

or try majorgeeks.com

jossey - 28/11/10 at 09:29 PM

Try this

http://comprolive.com/remove/worm/ramnit/watermark-exe

Make sure you have good AV on your pc. You pc will last about 60 seconds on net before you pickup a virus or spyware etc.


Dave

Mr G - 28/11/10 at 10:55 PM

What os are you running? First call for me is to roll the system back to an earlier date pre-infection

T66 - 29/11/10 at 06:46 AM

quote:
Originally posted by Mr G
What os are you running? First call for me is to roll the system back to an earlier date pre-infection




The thing is with that, is the virus remains where it is...


PC needs booting up in safe mode to remove the virus, as far as I understand the PC will backup everything with system restore, which to get rid of the virus needs to be disabled.


bleepingcomputer.com will hold the answer, has bailed me out more than once.


I am not a PC expert, and have successfully removed umpteen virus after over enthusiastic surfing by my teenage sons.

mad4x4 - 29/11/10 at 07:38 AM

quote:
Originally posted by Mr G
What os are you running? First call for me is to roll the system back to an earlier date pre-infection





No............ don't Do it /....................


(never seen it work only screws up your machine more IMHO)

Peteff - 29/11/10 at 10:03 AM

First step is to disable system restore then get rid of the .exe then go through registry and internet temp files and delete all references to it.

Mr G - 29/11/10 at 06:12 PM

quote:
Originally posted by mad4x4
quote:
Originally posted by Mr G
What os are you running? First call for me is to roll the system back to an earlier date pre-infection





No............ don't Do it /....................


(never seen it work only screws up your machine more IMHO)


Edit : Horses for courses. Never had any trouble on numerous machines. O bviously need to do it properly and use other software etc

I've been lucky then

Roll back so the virus can't boot
Remove virus with avast/MSE/Anti-malware
Disable system points/ delete post virus points.

etc etc

[Edited on 29/11/10 by Mr G]