Problem Anyone heard of Ramnit virus?

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and more to the point anyone been able to remove the thing?

 

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I've never had to deal with that one... it looks pretty ugly. Microsoft's site says that Security Essentials can remove it, but from the reports I'm seeing online, I hesitate to believe their claim.

Which variant do you have? Or do you know?

EDIT: Symantec says that they can remove it too... but if they can, why are so many people having trouble with removing it? Click that "having trouble" link... there's a guy on there who says he's consistently able to remove it.

 

Think it's Ramnit.A inf. It's the worst virus I've come across as it seems to jump from dll to dll and exe's as well. One PC had 1800 instances of it. Just our luck that another 3-5 PC's are infected. Nothing seems to get rid of the virus and what makes me laugh is that it's deemed a low risk. Cheers for the links guys will check them out.

 

format c: lol

 

Yep looks that way

 

I find you end up pissing about more trying to remove it than it takes to reinstall, miss one bit and your work just got wasted

 

Forgot to say I ended up formatting the PC and then we found 3 more so wiped them as well.

 

lol where I'm contracting now I have seen more viruses than probably the rest of my contracts put together. It's in a little bit of a mess.

 

Some help/info on it over at SOPHOS

 

Cheers for the link mate. It's a bit of a strange virus as some places rate it as low and others very high. Looked at the link at Sophos and the files don't match up from what I remember. Think the issue is that there are a few varieties of this virus. It's defo the worst I've come across.