Well, I mentioned about some activity in my previous post that was mainly because of M.exe getting into my USB drive and infecting some other files. The link which I posted in that post was of some help but not complete. I did whatever was mentioned in the post , only to realise later though it was not "recommended" to run such anti-malware products without any help from the forum moderators.
Though it dint really led to any more problems, but I would also now recommend to take help from forum moderators before you proceed. How it works is : You contact the forum moderator stating your problem, s/he will ask you to install some utility , run it and post the log online, s/he will come up with some scripts and ask you to run them again and then post the log again. A brief about this in this Wiki link
Its very generous of these moderators to provide us support, but its generally a time taking process esp if you two are in different time zones. And quite a lot of times, the problem just refuses to go away. Somewhat similar things happened with me and now after M.exe attack, my PC has "reader_s.exe" malware files.
Similar problems have encountered by some other users:
i) http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/lofiversion/index.php/t204663.html
ii) http://miekiemoes.blogspot.com/2009/02/virut-and-other-file-infectors-throwing.html
The second link is blog from Miekiemoes Brugge actually and she percieves formatting a better option sometimes, to which I agree too. Sometimes you have to just let it go :)
And once you have decided to format and re-install your Windows, just dont forget to follow these simple steps before going online.
http://web.mit.edu/ist/products/winxp/advanced/security-newmachine.html
Cheers!
MoA
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