Hi: I was unlucky enough to double click a file called crack.exe on a CD, Now my WinXP is infected, I get this icon in the Icon bar mentioning WinXP is infected with Spyware, press click to download spyware removers (but does nothing beyond this message). I cannot get Opera to load any page, or any other browser for that matter. I constantly get a beeping sound, CPU is over 95%. Spybot S&D claims to have removed, DOS Exploits, WWW-Cache Trojans and some other WWW Trojans. AVAST on boot up scan removed a Trojan in System Volume Information. Thats it. I still get this Win XP ixon saying my System is infected and I still cannot get Opera or any other browser to load webpages Any leads as to how I remove this Virus the file I double clicked was crack.exe.
I removed several other spyware manually paytime.exe, & C:/Winstall.exe. I have smss.exe under it winlogon.exe consuming a lot of cpu ie 13 threads. I find on Google that smss.exe and winlogon.exe can be trojans disguised as WIndows files. both smss.exe and winlogon.exe are in C:/WINDOWS/System32 dir. Will it harm my computer. The message that stated you have been infected is removed sinc remove of paytime.exe, I still have this beeping noise and Opera wont work, Skype wont work they just crash
Thanks Much, AJ