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Manual Removal of W32/Sohanad.AS Worm

Manual Removal of W32/Sohanad.AS Worm.
W32/Sohanad.AS is a worm. The worm will infect Windows systems.
The worm arrives either as a file downloaded from remote sites by other malware or downloaded unknowingly by a user when visiting malicious Web sites.

The worm also modifies the Windows Registry to disable Registry Editor and Task Manager.
It attempts to connect to certain Web sites to download the possible malicious files.
The worm creates a scheduled task to execute its dropped copies.
It then uses Windows Task Scheduler to schedule task that automatically executes at 9 o’clock everyday.
This worm first appeared on August 22, 2007.
Other names of W32/Sohanad.AS Worm:
This Worm is also known as IM-Worm.Win32.Sohanad.as, W32/YahLover.worm, W32.Imaut.A , DR/Sohanad.AS.1, W32/SillyFDC-AE.
Damage Level : High/Medium
Distribution Level: Unknown
Auto Removal Tools for W32/Sohanad.AS Worm
Sergiwa Sohanad Removal Tool
Download From Download.com Sohanad Removal Tool 1.0 (SRT.EXE) Contains Malware Multi-Packed
Download Kaspersky Removal Tool
Worm Manual Removal Instructions

Recommend Removal from Safe Mode:

How to Start in Safe mode:
Restart your Computer, Press F8 Repeatedly, when your Screen turns on, Select Safe mode, press enter.
The Infected Files Can be Seen in these folders and names also Running in Tasks
End the Following Active Process Before Removal
  • %Windows\SCVVHSOT.exe
  • %Windows\System\BLASTCLNNN.EXE
  • %Windows\System\SCVVHSOT.exe
  • %System%\autorun.ini
    It also copies autorun.ini in the Windows System folder, which contains the following lines:
    Open=SCVVHSOT.exe
    Shellexe cute=SCVVHSOT.exe
    Shell\Open\command = SCVVHSOT.exe
    Shell=Open
    To Delete, Open the file using Notepad, then delete whole content inside the file, then File Save, Close notepad, Right click on the File, Select properties, Check readonly, Apply, Ok, Close, then delete.

    • If you have any of these files in running process from task manger, end the process before removal.
    • Note: if task manager is disabled
      Download the following file[ Right click and select “Save Target as” ]
      Click to Download - Enable Registry.reg
    • Open it with Regedit.exe [%system32\regedit.exe], then it Confirms Add to registry Yes or No, Confirm Yes, then click Ok.
Worm Manual Removal From Registry
Click Start, Run,Type regedit,Click OK.
  • Note: If the registry editor fails to open the threat may have modified the registry to prevent access to the registry editor.
    Download and run this UnHookExec.inf, and then continue with the removal.
    Save it to your Windows desktop. Do not run it at this time, download it only.
    After booting into the Safe Mode or VGA Mode
    Right-click the UnHookExec.inf file and click Install. [This is a small file. It does not display any notice or boxes when you run it.]
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\Yahoo Messengger
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\Shell
The worm adds the following registry key, so that the malicious file is accesible to all users within the network:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\WorkgroupCrawler\Shares

Search Registry For Virus File Names listed above to remove completely,
Edit Menu - Find
, enter Keyword and remove all value that find in search.

Exit the Registry Editor,
Restart your Computer.

Recommended Removal Tools:
Kaspersky Antivirus or Internet Security (Shareware)
Spyware Doctor (Shareware)
AVG Antivirus (Freeware)
Killbox (Freeware)

Written by FireFly on December 28th, 2008 with no comments.
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How to speed up Firefox?


Learn from this article at DemoGeek.com on how to speed up Firefox with these simple tweaks.

      

Written by askars on December 28th, 2008 with no comments.
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What Is a Window Manager?

X-windows is a system that divides the labor up quite a bit. An X-windows application draws and controls only the area "inside" the window, the so-called client area. A totally separate program, called a "window manager" paints the borders and controls (such as resizing edges, maximize, minimize, and close buttons). You can have only one window manager program per X server, and that window manager provides these window "decorations" on behalf of all windows.

The window manager and the X-application communicate in standard ways. For example, when you resize a window by dragging an edge, all the work is done by the window manager program until you release the edge; then the window manager tells the X application about it by sending it a resize message. The application then must repaint itself in the new client area. (This is a bit theoretical: Some window managers send repaint messages while you drag the edge, so the application repaints several times, but you get the idea.) The application is also able to tell the window manager certain things, such as whether or not the window may be resized.

The division of labor has some distinct advantages, especially when you consider X's network capabilities. If the window manager is local, then when, for example, resizing the window of a remote application, only the final "window resize" and screen repaint need go over the network. None of the mouse events or border animation need to generate network traffic. (Again, if your window manager sends repaint messages as it goes, this benefit is lost.)

The other advantage is that you can change window managers. You might have an industrial application that is always maximized and should not be closed. You could write a window manager that doesn't have a close button or resizing decorations and that always sets the client area size to the full screen. Heck, some existing window managers can be configured to do this without any programming.

The details of window managers and their interaction with applications can get quite complex. There is a sort of "minimum standard" set of features a window manager must provide, and there is a "minimum standard" set of window manager messages an X-application must support, but many applications go well beyond this. The increasingly common "desktop" systems for X (KDE and GNOME, for example) extend this set quite, er, extensively. This means that applications that use these features either will run only with that one window manager or will have some functionality unavailable when running under other window managers.

If you want to know more, it is time for you to delve into X-windows programming.

As for X-servers for Windows, a number of commercial ones are available. A free X-server for Windows is available as part of a product called Cygwin, which is a complete POSIX-compliant programming environment for Windows. Cygwin actually makes Windows itself into a decent Unix-like environment. The X-server for Cygwin is the same X-server shipped with most Linux distributions: Xfree86. Cygwin is available from Cygnus Software, which was purchased by RedHat last year. The URL is http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin.

Source of Information : Addison Wesley - Multitool Linux - Practical Uses for Open Source Software

Written by magakos on December 28th, 2008 with no comments.
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