Hi David, thank you so much for the post. I found it to be very helpful. I
took your advice and there were 4 more viruses. Before I started all of
these scanners I disabled System Restore and my firewall. When I went to
turn the firewall back on I got the message "Windows cannot display the
properties of this connection. The Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI)
information might be corrupt. To correct this, use System Restore to restore
Windows to an earlier time." Only one problem with that, there are no
earlier restore times.
McAfee
Summary report on C:\*.*
File(s)
Total files: ........... 49877
Clean: ................. 49813
Possibly Infected: ..... 2
Cleaned: ............... 0
Deleted: ............... 3
Non-critical Error(s): 2

Sophos
1 master boot record swept.
24393 files swept in 2 hours, 9 minutes and 41 seconds.
54 errors were encountered.
2 viruses were discovered.
2 files out of 24393 were infected.
Please send infected samples to Sophos for analysis.
For advice consult www.sophos.com, email support@sophos.com
or telephone +44 1235 559933

Trend
119 files have been read.
119 files have been checked.
116 files have been scanned.
116 files have been scanned. (including files in archived)
0 files containing viruses.
Found 0 viruses totally.
Maybe 0 viruses totally.

Stop At : 11/5/2005 07:19:36 3 seconds (3.50 seconds) has elapsed.
2005-11-05, 07:19:29, Could not set file for reading on
"C:\WINDOWS\Prefetch\AC705RDP_EFGJ.EXE-2B9169C7.pf": Access is denied.





2005-11-05, 07:19:29, Could not set file for reading on
"C:\WINDOWS\Prefetch\ACROAUM.EXE-20EEC18B.pf": Access is denied.
2005-11-05, 07:19:29, Could not set file for reading on
"C:\WINDOWS\Prefetch\ACRORD32.EXE-13285B88.pf": Access is denied.
2005-11-05, 07:19:29, Could not set file for reading on
"C:\WINDOWS\Prefetch\ACRORD32INFO.EXE-013EA364.pf": Access is denied.
2005-11-05, 07:19:29, Could not set file for reading on
"C:\WINDOWS\Prefetch\AD-AWARE.EXE-2ED3360E.pf": Access is denied.
2005-11-05, 07:19:29, Could not set file for reading on
"C:\WINDOWS\Prefetch\ADOBEUPDATEMANAGER.EXE-32021652.pf": Access is denied.
2005-11-05, 07:19:29, Could not set file for reading on
"C:\WINDOWS\Prefetch\ALG.EXE-0F138680.pf": Access is denied.
2005-11-05, 07:19:29, Could not set file for reading on
"C:\WINDOWS\Prefetch\AUTORUN.EXE-055703AF.pf": Access is den


I only copied a few of these over but every file in the prefetch folder was
listed same as these.

"David H. Lipman" wrote:

> From: "Teri" <Teri@discussions.microsoft.com>
>
> | First I will tell you I run XP Home Edition on my pc.
> |
> | I use the built in firewall in XP Home and I have the Microsoft Antispyware
> | and all available updates (critical). I have SP1 and I really do not want
> | SP2. I use the Prevx Home Anti-Virus software and I do regular scans on my
> | pc. I am an internet surfer and so I had to learn to "clean up". I use CW
> | Shredder, Hijack This and I have my computer configured so that nothing
> | starts up in msconfig. I use Stinger and Panda on line scan and Adaware and
> | Spybot S&D.
> |
> | Even with all of that I recently was attacked by a couple of virus's
> | W32/Sdbot.ftp.worm and W32/Sdbot.DOF.worm. The first one was in the file
> | C:\Windows\System32\phhh.dll and Stinger found it. The 2nd one was in the
> | System32\TFTP1756 and Panda found it . My question is there is still a file
> | there called TFTP1544. I have learned that TFTP stands for Trivial File
> | Transfer Protocol and is used with the TCP/IP Protocol. There is still a
> | couple of files in my system 32 folder that I am curious about. One is a
> | TFTP1544 and the other is a TFTP.exe, are they supposed to be there?
>
>
> There are anti virus News Groups specifically for this type of discussion.
>
> microsoft.public.security.virus
> alt.comp.virus
> alt.comp.anti-virus
>
> PREVX is not anti virus software. It is a supplemental program but insufficient to protect
> your PC like an anti virus application. You need a full time anti virus application capable
> of "On Access" and "On Demand" scanning capabilities. MS Anti Spyware, Ad-aware SE and
> SpyBot S&D are for non-viral malware and won't help (with a few exceptions) with viral
> malware.
>
> Stinger is an "On Demand" AV scanner that only targets ~54 infectors, mostl;y Internet
> worms. The SDBot happens to be one of them. However, there are NEW SDBots variants that
> may not be caught by Stinger since it hasn't been updated in a month and when it was last
> updated it wasn't updated for new variants for the SDBot and there are new variants now
> being seen.
>
> TFTP.EXE is a file native to the OS.
> C:\Windows\System32\TFTPxxxx (where xxxx can be some number) is not a part of the OS and is
> indicative of an infection and should be removed.
>
>
> Here are some suggested FREE AV solutions...
>
> AVAST -
> http://www.avast.com/i_idt_1016.html - FREE
>
> AntiVir -
> http://www.free-av.com/ - FREE
>
> AVG -
> http://free.grisoft.com/freeweb.php/doc/2/lng/us/tpl/v5 - FREE
>
> The *best* AV solutions however will cost money and they are Kaspersky and NOD32 in that
> order.
>
> The following can be used to replace Stinger. As mentioned before, Stinger has a limited
> target list and is rarely updated. The below uses the command line scanners from; Sophos,
> McAfee, Kaspersky and Trend Micro and each are reguarly updated. The McAfee commnad line
> scanner alone will recognize approx. 155,000 infectors, both viral and non-viral. It is
> suggested that you run the below utility.
>
> Download MULTI_AV.EXE from the URL --
> http://www.ik-cs.com/programs/virtools/Multi_AV.exe
>
> It is a self-extracting ZIP file that contains the Kixtart Script Interpreter {
> http://kixtart.org Kixtart is CareWare } 4 batch files, 6 Kixtart scripts, one Link
> (.LNK) file, a PDF instruction file and two utilities; UNZIP.EXE and WGET.EXE. It will
> simplify the process of using; Sophos, Trend, Kaspersky and McAfee Anti Virus Command
> Line Scanners to remove viruses, Trojans and various other malware.
>
> C:\AV-CLS\StartMenu.BAT -- { or Double-click on 'Start Menu' in C:\AV-CLS}
> This will bring up the initial menu of choices and should be executed in Normal Mode.
> This way all the components can be downloaded from each AV vendor's web site.
> The choices are; Sophos, Trend, McAfee, Kaspersky, Exit this menu and Reboot the PC.
>
> You can choose to go to each menu item and just download the needed files or you can
> download the files and perform a scan in Normal Mode. Once you have downloaded the files
> needed for each scanner you want to use, you should reboot the PC into Safe Mode [F8 key
> during boot] and re-run the menu again and choose which scanner you want to run in Safe
> Mode. It is suggested to run the scanners in both Safe Mode and Normal Mode.
>
> When the menu is displayed hitting 'H' or 'h' will bring up a more comprehensive PDF help
> file. http://www.ik-cs.com/multi-av.htm
>
> To use this utility, perform the following...
> Execute; Multi_AV.exe { Note: You must use the default folder C:\AV-CLS }
> Choose; Unzip
> Choose; Close
>
> Execute; C:\AV-CLS\StartMenu.BAT
> { or Double-click on 'Start Menu' in C:\AV-CLS }
>
> NOTE: You may have to disable your software FireWall or allow WGET.EXE to go through your
> FireWall to allow it to download the needed AV vendor related files.
>
> * * * Please report back your results * * *
>
>
> --
> Dave
> http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
> http://www.ik-cs.com/got-a-virus.htm
>
>
>