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Virus Doctor

Description of Virus Doctor and consequences of its residing on your PC

Virus Doctor (VirusDoctor) is installed secretly or through the websites of deceiving content and often aggressive behavior. The way of its installation or rather invasion hints at its cunning nature. Indeed, providing no real protection, Virus Doctor demands registration to remove threats which are unlikely to be present at your computer.
Remove Virus Doctor, since this program is not just a source of annoying alerts  and misleading repeated scans with scaring but fake results; much worse thing about  Virus Doctor is its activities aimed to slow down and disorder Windows  to scaring purposes. It seems hard to determine the permissible level of destruction before they become irreversible. For Virus Doctor this problem, even if was posed, remain unresolved. That means in techie terms, dll files of  Virus Doctor issue commands destabilizing Windows and damaging data; this may go as far as your system falls down.  To avoid such unhappy end, click here  to start free scan and get rid of Virus Doctor. The trojan if installed with Virus Doctor is also dangerous. Following the link above you also remove Virus Doctor subservient trojan, if applicable.

Virus Doctor Technical Details

  • Full name: Virus Doctor, VirusDoctor, Virus-Doctor
  • Version: 2009
  • Type: Rogue anti-spyware
  • Origin: Russian Federation / http://virus-doctor.com

Virus Doctor Screenshots (click to enlarge):

Signs of being infected with Virus Doctor :

In case of trojan’s scheme of installation, Virus Doctor removal may become unnecessary if you manage to detect and remove Virus Doctor subservient trojan in a due time. The detection is easy if you pay attention to the websites have been visited lately. If among theme there are those dedicated to malware of Virus Doctor, it is a good reason to check whether trojan has infected your Windows.
It is no big deal if you failed to avoid installation of  Virus Doctor with its trojan. However, there is no time for lingering if that has happened. Virus Doctor generates large scan window at the center of monitor or at least window named Virus Doctor or obviously representing this program is displayed. Do not trust in the results of scan by Virus Doctor. Do not to find “threats’ listed unless you like wasting time. As soon as you have and inkling, click here to check your  PC infection status and remove Virus Doctor and other rogues as appropriate
In addition to the above, Virus Doctor is known for its alerts popping ups at various places and interrupting functioning of various programs. It also may make your PC  produce various simple sounds like bleeps and alarm whistles.

Automatic Removal of Virus Doctor from your PC:

As you can see, Virus Doctor is very hazardous resident for infected computer. One may take its annoying behavior, but infected OS may be simply destroyed owing to the malware impact. Since Virus Doctor deletes files randomly, a moment of system collapse cannot be predicted logically. That is why automatic removal of Virus Doctor, a flash-like way to get rid of Virus Doctor, is preferable. In addition, removing Virus Doctor automatically you remove Virus Doctor subservient programs and, of course, detect and remove other infections. If you choice is to remove  Virus Doctor manually, it is our tip to follow the link below and scan your computer for free. The infections found may be then manually removed as it is usually quite easy to find relevant removal manuals at this and other Internet security blogs.

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Manual Removal of Virus Doctor:

It is important that the Virus Doctor removal process goes with minimal interruptions or better without any. Please, make sure you can manage dll files deletion and System Registry before starting to remove Virus Doctor manually.
Please, close all the programs before launching Virus Doctor removal process except those involved in the removal of Virus Doctor. Hence, you need to have the instruction below printed out.

Remove Virus Doctor files and dll’s

mozcrt19.dll
sqlite3.dll
unins000.dat
unins000.exe
VDoca582.exe
Languages
VDDe.lng
VDFr.lng
VDIt.lng
DBInfo.ver
vd952342.bd
config.cfg
DB.ini
fsvd6398.db
settings.ini
uill.ini
Virus Doctor.lnk

Unregister Virus Doctor registry values:

%UserProfile%HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Virus Doctor_is1
%UserProfile%HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run “Virus Doctor”
%UserProfile%HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\5.0\User Agent\Post Platform “URVDoc[]”

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Written by admin on February 3rd, 2009 with no comments.
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Speeding Up System Boot - What Hardware Devices should I Disable ?

Each user uses (or doesn’t use) devices differently,depending on the system setup. Nonetheless, some classes of devices are more commonly disabled than others.Knowing which ones will help you make a decision as to what devices you should disable.The following classes of devices are frequently disabled:

To quickly determine the status of a device, check out the icon next to its name. All devices that are disabled have a red X over the icon. All devices that have a question mark or an explanation point on them are not set up correctly or are having problems. All devices with none of the above additions to the icon are runningññand doing so without any problems.
Network Adapters
Especially on Notebook computers,there are often more than one network device. Disabling the network devices that you do not use will definitely save you some booting time.

Fire wire
If you have 1394 connections,otherwise known as fire wire,you might consider disabling them. Unless you are using your fire wire port to connect your digital
video recorder to your computer,or have other external fire wire devices,you have no need to have this device enabled.

Modems
Do you have a broadband connection? If so,then consider disabling your modem. If you rarely use it,disable it. If you ever need to use it again,just re-enable it.

Multimedia devices
Your computer has lots of multimedia devices. Take a look at the
ìSound,video,and game controllersîsection in Device Manager. You will find a lot of device drivers that are loaded during your boot.Some are used by all users,but others will find a few that they do not use.For example,I do not use my game port or my MIDI device,so I disabled both of those.

PCMCIA
If you are a laptop user,consider disabling your PCMCIA card controller, located under ìPCMCIA adapters.”The PCMCIA (Personal Computer Memory Card International Association ) slot is a special expansion slot that is rarely used today on laptops except for wireless and wired network cards and card reader attachments for compact flash and other solid state memory cards.Most laptops now have built-in network adapters and some even have built-in wireless adapters.If you do not use your PCMCIA adapter, it is yet another device that can be safely disabled.

Caution
Do not disable any hardware devices that are located under the Disk Drives, Computer, Display Adapters, IDE Disk Controllers, and the System sections (except for the system speaker) because these hardware devices are critical to the operation of your computer.

Written by FireFly on January 11th, 2009 with no comments.
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Antivirus Advance

Description of Antivirus Advance and consequences of its residing on your PC

Antivirus Advance or AntivirusAdvance cannot be called atypical fake remover or very unusual program that belongs to malware genera. However, some traits of this malware are worth of attention and most of them relate to the web-site of Antivirus Advance; needless to say, you should remove Antivirus Advance immediately and it is explained below what for.
However, let us first of all consider some outstanding peculiarities of this badware. In our experience of malware watching, it is Antivirus Advance whose site quality is out of competition with other sites promoting malware; well-structured, very fast in download and with professionally looking flash elements, Antivirus Advance is often downloaded manually as users often trust in the promises provided at the web-site. Frequency of its trial version downloads by visitors of AntivirusAdvanced.com is in dozen of times higher than for average web-site of the same type. Click here  to download and install professional malware removal tool capable to scan your PC free of charge for threats detection, and remove AntivirusAdvance.
Neither features described at this malware web-site are executed, nor is this malware simply useless but harmless. In reality, the danger comes from the trial of Antivirus Advance rather than from all the malware attacking users as far as other malware trials are not downloaded and installed at your machine. Failure to get rid of Antivirus Advance  trial is a likely reason for your slow computer problem and errors in functioning of some important programs.

Antivirus Advance Technical Details

  • Full name: Antivirus Advance
  • Version: 1.0
  • Type: Rogue anti-spyware
  • Origin: Russian Federation\ http://AntivirusAdvance.com

Antivirus Advance Screenshots (click to enlarge):

Signs of being infected with Antivirus Advance:

The very first thing you should see after installation of Antivirus Advance, if it was a free trial installed manually from the web-site where the rogue is marketed,  should be the alert saying that the reboot is required to enable immediate start-up of applications installed. In case you have not installed the trial version manually but invasion happened, the reboot should be done automatically. However, exemptions happen when the warning inviting user to reboot the system is still displayed in the above case. If you have ever experienced sudden system reboot, it is likely to be evidence of malware presence at your PC, perhaps of Antivirus Advance.
Both legitimate and illegitimate trials generate free scan window. That window is entitled Antivirus Advance so that no difficulties should appear with Antivirus Advance detection after such scan generation. If having doubts, click here  to detect this and other malware for free and to remove Antivirus Advance.

Automatic Removal of Antivirus Advance from your PC:

Advanced tool would be better applied to remove Antivirus Advance safely and eternally. Antivirus Advance is likely to be bundled with some other fake removers and other rogues, incl. viruses, which may be uploaded for strengthening of destructions and for harder system disordering. Complex removal tool would be better used to get rid AntivirusAdvance and all other adware, spyware and all types of viruses.

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Written by admin on October 6th, 2008 with no comments.
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How to Uninstall WSUS 3.0 after you have (removed/fucked up) the database manually

Well if somehow your wsus 3.0 database becomes corrupt.
Due to an Database administrator removing the instance for example.

I tried to remove through the Add/Remove programs dialog but all I got back was.

Event Type: Information
Event Source: MsiInstaller
Event Category: None
Event ID: 11725
Date: 25-09-2007
Time: 11:17:18
User: Domain\Administrator
Computer: WSUSSERVER
Description:
Product: Microsoft Windows Server Update Services 3.0 — Removal failed.
For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

Data:
0000: 7b 32 43 30 44 37 45 33 {2C0D7E3
0008: 35 2d 45 45 36 45 2d 34 5-EE6E-4
0010: 44 43 37 2d 42 41 31 33 DC7-BA13
0018: 2d 32 43 36 38 41 45 44 -2C68AED
0020: 45 42 35 39 44 7d EB59D}

And voila the program was removed from the ADD/Remove Programs dialog.
So I had nothing.

Inspecting the Wsus installation log at %temp%\wsus*.log
Reveals the following:

MSI (s) (8C:74) [11:17:38:402]: Product: Microsoft Windows Server Update Services 3.0 — Removal failed.

There you have it, you have absolutely nothing to work on.

Then you will have to do the following to get your WSUS back.

First what I did was to completely remove the Database.
I had used the internal WSUS 3.0 database so to remove that I did the following.
Go to command prompt and there type in:

msiexec /x {CEB5780F-1A70-44A9-850F-DE6C4F6AA8FB} callerid=ocsetup.exe
I found this on the Microsoft Technet

Microsoft Technet

This starts the deinstallation of the Windows Internal Database.
So the first hurdle has been taken, the database is gone.

Now I wanted to start the installation of wsus again but this resulted in the same vague error messages I already stated above.

Now I had to remove the complete installation of WSUS 3.0 which is an msi app.
I remembered that there was an Windows Installer CleanUp Utility.

I downloaded it from Microsoft:
Windows Installer CleanUp Utility

When I ran that utility on the machine it showed me alot of programs but also the crooked WSUS 3.0 I selected that one, and choose [Remove]
In the application log showed the following:

Event Type: Information
Event Source: MsiInstaller
Event Category: None
Event ID: 11707
Date: 25-09-2007
Time: 11:23:16
User: Domain\Administrator
Computer: WSUSSERVER
Description:
Product: Windows Installer Clean Up — Installation operation completed successfully.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
Data:
0000: 7b 31 32 31 36 33 34 42 {121634B
0008: 30 2d 32 46 34 42 2d 31 0-2F4B-1
0010: 31 44 33 2d 41 44 41 33 1D3-ADA3
0018: 2d 30 30 43 30 34 46 35 -00C04F5
0020: 32 44 44 35 32 7d 2DD52}

That is what I wanted to see.

After that I manually removed the installation folder of wsus which was in my case
D:\WSUS.

This enabled me to re-install wsus 3.0 and its now purring like a kitten.

Here is my clientdiag on the commandprompt on my machine.

C:\clientupdate>clientdiag

WSUS Client Diagnostics Tool

Checking Machine State
Checking for admin rights to run tool . . . . . . . . . PASS
Automatic Updates Service is running. . . . . . . . . . PASS
Background Intelligent Transfer Service is not running. PASS
Wuaueng.dll version 7.0.6000.374. . . . . . . . . . . . PASS
This version is WSUS 2.0

Checking AU Settings
AU Option is 4: Scheduled Install . . . . . . . . . . . PASS
Option is from Policy settings

Checking Proxy Configuration
Checking for winhttp local machine Proxy settings . . . PASS
Winhttp local machine access type

Winhttp local machine Proxy. . . . . . . . . . NONE
Winhttp local machine ProxyBypass. . . . . . . NONE
Checking User IE Proxy settings . . . . . . . . . . . . PASS
User IE Proxy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NONE
User IE ProxyByPass. . . . . . . . . . . . . . NONE
User IE AutoConfig URL Proxy . . . . . . . . . NONE
User IE AutoDetect
AutoDetect not in use

Checking Connection to WSUS/SUS Server
WUServer = http://wsusserver
WUStatusServer = http://wsusserver
UseWuServer is enabled. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . PASS
Connection to server. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . PASS
SelfUpdate folder is present. . . . . . . . . . . . . . PASS

Press Enter to Complete

Yes I have re-downloaded all the updates, maybe its possible to leave the download folder for the updates but I havent tried it.

I hope this will help you in uninstalling wsus and reinstall wsus 3.0.

Written by Teus on September 25th, 2007 with 14 comments.
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