Does anyone know how to get rid of the poebot win32 virus?

Question

This virus is on my computer and I need to know how to get rid of it. I have mcafee anti virus and it just tells me that it can't access the system32 folder to clean the virus because it might be read only

Answer 1

Hi there,

Here's some detailed information on the POEBOT infection:
http://virusinfo.prevx.com/viruscenter.asp?returnpage=default&GRP=1420300023

The best and easiest way to remove this is by installing the Free Trial of Prevx1. This will scan your PC and remove this and any other infections free of charge.
http://www.prevx.com

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Answer 2

I had the appropriate comparable subject and it grew to become into rather stressful. I bear in mind making use of malwarebytes and all of them to do away with it, yet interior the top i'm fairly confident I purely went into My computing device and located a Win32 report and that i made confident I deleted each and every thing bearing directly to it, and then it purely went away. according to risk attempt doing a seek on My computing device to ee in case you will locate any data connecting to it and delete them? with the aid of fact it particularly is all I had to do. wish this works :)

Answer 3

There's a good list of free virus removal tools here, also has some good info on how to avoid stuff like this.http://www.basicspywaretips.com/getridofspyware.html

Answer 4

What you have is known as Backdoor.Win32.PoeBot.a

here is the page of the virus and its variant form

http://vil.nai.com/vil/content/v_135434.htm

update your definitions manually from this
to ensure you can detect it and properly remove it...
http://www.mcafee.com/apps/downloads/security_updates/dat.asp

you also may want to enter SAFE MODE by hitting F8 When your pc first boots up, this will ensure the file is not in use...

When the file is in use, it says you cant remove it because it is archived or read only.

Answer 5

You insatll a standard antivirus soft ware such as AVG , Avast ( free antivirus software and Ad-aware, Ewido ( free spyware removers). You can download free softwares at
http://fixit.in/antivirus.html and http://fixit.in/spywareremover.html

Answer 6

Change the antivirus program. Here you have some free options:
http://askcomputerexpert.ws43.com/download/

Answer 7

I agree 100% with above. McAffee Sucks. Use free AVG (latest 7.5).

Answer 8

http://filehippo.com
my favourite website for tools.
Download antispyware and try searching for that virus.
Try AVG antivirus too, that might work.

Answer 9

download a good antispyware update it and your antivirus and ruin them in safe mode

Answer 10

http://www.aladdin.com/home/csrt/analysis.asp?virus_no=20946&cf=