Saturday, July 21, 2007

I DNT HATE MOZILLA! ORKUT IS BANNED!! USE INTERNET EXPLORER U DOPE

WTF is the title abt ?

You opened Firefox and an annoying message pops up telling
USE INTERNET EXPLORER U DOPE
I DNT HATE MOZILLA BUT USE IE OR ELSE...
Then u get pissed off and go to IE and and type www.orkut.com in the address bar and press enter and alas what you get is a another bloody annoying pop up saying

ORKUT IS BANNED!!
Orkut is banned you fool, The administrators didnt write this program guess who did?? MUHAHAHA!!

In fact whenever you type the words mozilla,firefox or orkut even in IE or any other browser you keep getting the annoying messages.

This is generally caused by a malware called w32.USBWorm and as the name suggests it spreads through pen drives.

Solution:
  1. Open the task manager by typing CTRL+ALT+DEL
  2. Search for svchost.exe under image name. There would be many such process running but keep tab on only those svchost.exe images which have your usename under the username.
  3. Kill all the svchost.exe processes which are running for ur username
  4. Open explorer( My Computer) and in the address bar type
    C:\heap41a
    It is a hidden folder hence can't be browsed to directly
  5. Permanently delete all the files in this folder by pressing SHIFT+DEL
  6. Go to Run( WIN+R) and type in Regedit
  7. Go to menu Edit -> Find and type heap41a there.
  8. Look for the line "[winlogon]C:\heap41a\svchost.exe C:\heap(sum number)\std.txt" and press DELETE
  9. To be on the safer side please do delete autorun.inf file and any other file .exe file in your pend drive
I found all the above things at the following blog