After a somewhat brief Aikido class tonight I was enlisted by Crow to help rid a Vista machine of the Vundo trojan which found it’s way onto the machine (prior to Avast being installed).
Avast did a great job of finding most things and cleaning them up. What it had trouble with was a few DLLs that were in use by the executing trojan. I was pointed toward Unlocker to free the DLL’s of their executing process and remove the lock that windows places on these files. Once the file was unlocked, it was able to be deleted by Avast and all was well.
(Photo Credit: bigux on Flickr)
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1 pixies in the Wired « The Travesties of an (Almost) Goth Girl // Mar 29, 2008 at 11:01 pm
[...] Call for help! Lucky for me, Tank and my other aikido brother came over to fix it. How? Read his post here. The key is to discover which process is using that dll (in this case, qomlk.dll) then kill that, [...]
2 Crow // Mar 29, 2008 at 11:02 pm
Thanks again buddy!
Avast is still catching stray dlls here and there…
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