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Windows cannot find "Dust EXE"

by pebo94 Apr 13, 2004 12:59PM PDT

My friend system had the worm virus I did a total clean with Norton,AVG6 Ad-aware etc. Avg6 found a file or foulder called "Dust Exe" to be infected along with a million worm and Trojan, so i removed them all. Now when the system re-boots fully this window pops up saying "Window cannot find dust exe, you may have type the name incorrectly in the run dialog etc" How do I stop this from popping up. System is WinME, AMD Duron, 1.4GHz and 128mb

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Re:Windows cannot find

by Marianna Schmudlach Apr 13, 2004 3:17PM PDT

This file-infecting virus spreads via shares on local area network and KaZaa P2P network. It also acts as backdoor using IRC network.

When an infected file is run, it copies itself as following:

%WinSys%\dust.exe
%WinDir%\Temp\dust.exe

More here: http://vil.nai.com/vil/content/v_100841.htm

Also here: http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.hllw.studd.html

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Re:Re:Windows cannot find - Thanks Marianna

by pebo94 Apr 22, 2004 12:40PM PDT

I fouund the answer to my problem among the information you gave me. Thanks to you

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answer please?

by CaptainLukeNukem Oct 29, 2013 6:09PM PDT

could you tell me the answer to fix it please?

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