What type of virus is this?

[henryjl]

Hi,

My friend is in trouble.
He has been infected by a worm or some type of virus that keeps restarting his computer every 1 minute or something.

Does anyone know what type this is?
If you do please tell me the removal tool for it and I will send it to him and tell him to start in safe mode etc...

Thanks,

Henry

[Spiritsongs]

   There is NO way we could possibly answer this question;
      what security-oriented programs ( Antivirus, antispyware,
      antitrojan ) does your friend have on his computer ?
      We need info on what Operating System he has, etc .

[henryjl]

Hey umm never mind anymore he said he will take it to a computer expert now.
But he has Avast! Home Edition, zonealarm firewall, ad-aware.
How he got infected:
He said he doesn't update his anti virus etc 


Thanks,

Henry

[squall2]

anyway, the "webhancer" thing cant be found on my add/remove programme list and when i run hijack this, it doesnt list it anymore?? it goes down to 09 then jumps to 011 (010 was the webhancer)

any ideas??

[squall2]

srry , wrong thred

[Laang3]

  I looked up this application (n?svc.exe) on google and got u guys. I need more help than what I read. My avg 7.1 found this and says error on reading file. The firewall drives me nuts with this thing trying to gain access to the internet. I always deny it. The more I deny it the more my comp screws up! Ends up being a connection issue. I cannot find this anywhere in Windows32 registry.This is as much info as I could find;
Application: n?svc.exe
Full Path:C\\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\N?SVC.EXE
Local Address  Local Host 1096
Remote Address:72.37.157.36:80
Connection: TCP
Direction  out

[igor]

Well, if you were running avast!, I'd tell you to run a boot-time scan - but with AVG, I'm afraid it's out of our subject.

[DavidR]

How about blocking it in your firewall but have it remember your choice, hopefully that way you will only have to deny it once.

Could this be a good time to jump ship, as an ex AVG user (over 20 months ago) I'm now a very happy avast user along with many others. Not to mention the support of these forums

Check out this post on the forums http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=18966.msg160386#msg160386

[henryjl]

   
This thread just went off-topic?    

[galooma]

is it the sort of virus that tells him he has 60 seconds to back up whatever he is working with because the system has to shut down?