vdriver.exe

[teejay]

Avast has located the following virus:  vdriver.exe Win 32 Trojan located in windows system 32.
I have moved it to the virus chest as recommended by avast.
However, every time the computer boots up it turns up in system 32 again.  I now have three versions located in the virus chest.

How can it be removed permanently.

Teejay

[Lisandro]

If a virus is replicant (coming and coming again), you could follow the general cleaning procedure:

1. Disable System Restore on Windows ME or Windows XP. System Restore cannot be disabled on Windows 9x and it's not available in Windows 2k. After boot you can enable System Restore again after step 3.

2. Clean your temporary files. You can use CleanUp or the Windows Advanced Care features for that.

3. Schedule a boot time scanning with avast. Start avast! > Right click the skin > Schedule a boot-time scanning. Select for scanning archives. Boot. Other option is scanning in SafeMode (repeatedly press F8 while booting).

4. It will be good if you download, install, update and run AVG Antispyware. Some users recommend SUPERantispyware, Spyware Terminator and/or a-squared (take care about false positives).
If any infection is detected, better and safer is send the file to Quarantine than to simple delete than.

5. If you still detecting any strange behavior or even you're sure you're not clean, maybe it will be good to test your machine with anti-rootkit applications. I suggest AVG or Panda.

6. Also, if you still detecting strange behaviors or you want to be sure you're clean, maybe making a HijackThis log to post here and, specially, scan and submit to on-line analysis the RunScanner log would help to identify the problem and the solution.

7. After you're clean, use the immunization of SpywareBlaster or, which is better, the Windows Advanced Care features of spyware/adware cleaning and removal.

8. Finally, when you're clean, check for insecure applications with Secunia Software Inspector to update insecure applications and avoid reinfection.

[teejay]

Avast has located the following virus:  vdriver.exe Win 32 Trojan located in windows system 32.
I have moved it to the virus chest as recommended by avast.
However, every time the computer boots up it turns up in system 32 again.  I now have three versions located in the virus chest.

How can it be removed permanently.

Teejay

[DavidR]

I'm not sure what the purpose of quoting your own post is but it doesn't ask or answer and questions.

You should use Tech List and progressively work through it and after trying some of the programs in item 4, post some information on any results positive (e.g. detections) or negative (no detection). You should try to be as detailed as possible to help us to help you, e.g. malware name, detected file name and location (C:\windows\system32\infected-file-name.xxx).

We will give you feed back on the results before you move on to the next step.