Re: Infected with Sohanad-O virus

Re: Infected with Sohanad-O virus

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Re: Infected with Sohanad-O virus Peter Foldes 11-24-2007
Posted by Peter Foldes on November 24, 2007, 1:56 am
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> Hi.
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> My system (Win Vista) has been infected with Sohanad-O virus and the =
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> performance has become too slow.
> Though Avast anti-virus has been installed and scanned, it shows no =
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> the system.
> I cannot open registry editor, task manager, or anti-virus web sites =
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> online.
> I am unable to work as most of applications keep crashing. It also has =

> spread to couple of other systems with WinXP too.
> Even scanning in safe mode does not help and cannot open registry =
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> task manager in safe mode.
> I cannot install any other anti-virus program as they are terminated. =
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> page setup in Microsoft Word will close and word hangs up.
> Checked up with ad-aware also, but says no ad-ware/spyware found.
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Posted by phani kumar on November 24, 2007, 4:34 am
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True.. It messed up registry and now I cannot see any other option other
than to format my system.
Its a painful task and I am not ready for it yet. Lot of things change and
one major worry is whether I lose my Vista License if do a clean re-install.
Already my Vista (Licensed version) is validated and activated. If I format
& re-install, will that be counted as second license or not??
I do use Windows Mail and I am getting "undeliverable messages" and messages
that message could not be sent due to virus.
I do continuously check for updates & I am update regarding security
patches, Service Packs and other things from Microsoft Update online
automatically.

Now that the system and network is infected, do I run the risk of losing the
data?? If yes, there is a chance that the back up I take also will contain
this virus. So its all the more important that I need to remove virus first.
Is there any standalone tool to remove this virus? How do I clean this
mess??

Already people whom I communicate say that they are getting messages with
virus from me. Its a big problem for me now.

Thanks..


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Peter

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> Hi.
>
> My system (Win Vista) has been infected with Sohanad-O virus and the
> system
> performance has become too slow.
> Though Avast anti-virus has been installed and scanned, it shows no virus
> in
> the system.
> I cannot open registry editor, task manager, or anti-virus web sites to
> scan
> online.
> I am unable to work as most of applications keep crashing. It also has
> spread to couple of other systems with WinXP too.
> Even scanning in safe mode does not help and cannot open registry editor
> or
> task manager in safe mode.
> I cannot install any other anti-virus program as they are terminated. Even
> page setup in Microsoft Word will close and word hangs up.
> Checked up with ad-aware also, but says no ad-ware/spyware found.
>
> Need urgent help please...
> Thanks in advance
>


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