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Troj/Borobt-gen

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by saugowe

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Hello,
Troj/Borobt-gen is a Trojan aand it recently affected my system. I use windows 2000 Pro.It came in the mode of an e mail attachment with the caption Is Micheal jackson really innocent?. On opening this atachment. it disbles the internet explorer browser. I have tried all the sites but no results.I have installed all the updates and service packs (medicine after death).Does anyone have a solution to my problem. Thanks!

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by dryflies

While I have not had the pleasure of dealing with this particular pest, the two following web sites have proven to be quite helpful:
http://www.sysinternals.com/index.html
http://www.sysinfo.org/
what I do is use rootkitrevealer and autruns from sysinternals to identify startup programs and hidden items on my systems and then cross reference them to the BHO and startup items list provided by sysinfo.org. When I have completed my cross reference list of pest processes/services and clsids I go into safe mode and methodically wipe them out. Once you have done that you can run spybot search and destroy, MS antispy, and adaware SE, as well as a scan using an updated AV scanner (I use symantec but you can use whatever) These four programs will, when used sequentially, eliminate everything I have heard of if you have disabled the rootkit first.

This is a time intensive, low duty cycle task, bring a book.

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