my virus thingy says ive got this virus,not too deadly but i,d like to get rid of it,any ideas troj simali.a

Got to Trend micro and do an online scan.

http://housecall.antivirus.com/housecall/start_corp.asp

Won't your AV program get rid of it for you John? If it found it it should disinfect it.

pete,housecall found it and says it cant delete it cos its connected to a prog that is needed,there are a couple of mentions on various sites about it but its all in swahili or summat

Here's some more info about it:

http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/backdoor.simali.html

Suggest trying to kill the running trojan process and running AV again. Probably the process will be one of these:

Loader.exe
Main.exe
Lass.exe
Msmsg.exe

Do CTL-ALT-DEL and see if one of these is running (or anything else that looks dodgy) and End Task. Then run the AV again.

Good luck!

Pete

did that,stil there

Sorry I was late getting back, Conrod.

IIRC, you run Windows 98? Try downloading this process viewer:

http://www.xmlsp.com/pview/prcview.htm

It will show everything that's running, including the trojan, so that you can kill the process and re-run AV. If that doesn't work, in PrcView you can do File>Save As, and save the process list to a text file. You could then cut-and-paste the process list here if you like, and we can try to figure out what to kill off.

Hope you read the link in my last post thoroughly. Getting rid of the bugger may involve editing your registry, which you might want to get some help with.

ive got XP,ta for yr help but thats all beyond me

Well, most likely the target of the trojan was a server and not a personal box. When these hackers get into a server they have a party with it. It can wait until you have a visitor who can clean it for you.

Damned writers of these things ought to be hung up by their balls

yup agree with your last sentance

cheers for the links pete, its time i had a tidy out myself!

just run housecall again and its cleared it

may still de lurking in system restore!