explored.exe AGAIN....

Alright I failed. It is back and I dont know how. Does anyone know why this file/virus is so persistent?

The file name is "explored.exe" and I remove from the registry, even made a .exe named explored.exe but it just replaced it. How???? I am getting sick of this. The ad-aware and spybots didnt seem to work. What now....

http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/w32bncc.html
http://us.mcafee.com/virusInfo/default.asp?id=description&virus_k=101447
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.hllw.gaobot.rf.html
I suggest that after you remove it this time, you get an antivirus utility and keep it updated. Also might want to make sure you are up to date on your Critical updates from MS as well.

I recently removed a customer's hard drive from their laptop and hooked it up to my system for a virus scan. What I found was about 5 different viruses and about 40 infected files.

I run the virus scanners in this order, each one over and over again until I was told the system was clean.

1.) Norton Antivirus 2003
2.) McAfee 8.0
3.) Pc-Cillin
4.) Panda Anti-virus 2004
5.) F-prot 3.14
6.) AVG Professional 7
7.) Kaspersky

After all of this, it was FINALLY cleaned. AVG and Kaspersky recognized over 2 dozen infected files which the others did not. I might recommend using the free version of AVG since this picked up the most total viruses out of all of them. Kaspersky also did a very good job.