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Experience of Infostealer.Gampass and Infostealer.Perfwo

Discussion in 'Virus and Malware Removal' started by samlow, May 6, 2007.

  1. samlow Newcomer, in training

    My pc was visited by Infostealer.Gampass and Infostealer.Perfwo and it was my most pain experience in removing it. I lost 97 exe files which were infected. I would like to share here and hope to help those panic victims.

    Folder created by them:
    %program Files%Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Folders\

    Files created:
    %windir%\svchost.exe
    %program files%\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Folders\MSOSV.EXE
    %program files%\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Folders\MSOSVEXT.EXE

    Files created after virus activated:
    %program files%\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Folders\TempA.exe
    ...
    %program files%\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Folders\TempM.exe
    %windir%\Sysfy3\svchost.exe
    %windir%\Sysfy3\Ghook.dll

    These 2 trojan horse visited me with 4 more viruses, which are
    - shualai.exe
    - nwizhx2.exe
    - nwizAsktao.exe
    - cmdbcs.exe

    The av (antivirus) is able to deleted the creation of Temp*.exe, svchost.exe and Ghook.dll. However, the other files are able to run at background.

    Removal steps:
    1. Stop the task of shualai.exe

    2. Delete the following files:
    - shualai.exe and shualai.dll
    - nwizhx2.exe and nwizhx2.dll
    - nwizAsktao.exe and nwizAsktao.dll
    - cmdbcs.exe and cmdbcs.dll
    (note that dll files located in %windir%\windows\system32 while exe files located in %windir%\windows\)

    3. Run regedit, search the following registry and remove them.
    - shualai (2 entries)
    - nwizhx2 (1 entry)
    - nwizAsktao (1 enty)
    - cmdbcs (2 entries)

    4. Remove
    %windir%\svchost.exe
    %program files%\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Folders\MSOSV.EXE
    %program files%\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Folders\MSOSVEXT.EXE
    %program files%\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Folders\Temp(x).exe

    5. Reboot

    If the steps does not solve the problem, format ALL the hardisk logical partition at once.

    Hope this helps.