Early this morning and again a couple days ago my anitvirus (Norton 360) has caught and quarantined this virus... When I went online this morning (after my computer had been sitting idle overnight) I saw a norton alert saying It stopped an attack and a restart was required... HERE is what norton says about this particular virus... It said it is spread by kazza and mIRC... I've never used kazza and I don't even know what mIRC is...

I have 3 questions...

1) Should I be concerned that I have gotten this twice in a couple days? Could it still be on my computer?

2) Any ideas where it came from? Could it be from one of the host sites that we use? Rapidshare? Somewhere else?

3) If it was from something I downloaded, why was it not picked up when the file was initially scanned?

Thanks...

If I were you I'd do a scan just to be sure. But Kazaa is p2p-software, and any other kind of p2p-software can get you this kind of virus too. mIRC = IRC-client IRC = Internet Relay Chat.

I hardly ever use P2P programs, limewire on rare occasions to DL a song that I can't find anywhere else... I never use IRC chat either...

Anyway I did all the routine maintenance, AdAware, CCleaner, Norton scan, disk cleanup, and even a defrag... All seems to be ok...

I just hope that nothing is hiding, in my system just waiting to attack... I consider myself to be a smart surfer so when things like that show up anywhere I get a little paranoid...

If something is hiding then let Spybot Search and Destroy kick its ass.

Haha... I had that on my old laptop... I totally forgot about loading it onto this one... Thanks for the reminder SEB...

search n destroy w/ updated virii list.

Well except for a few tracking cookies, S&D didn't find anything... For some reason it did identify my desktop shortcut to veoh proxy as a WebDialer... I figure that should not be an issue if I don't delete that...

McAfee Avert Stinger

Yeah i got the same thing and i have tried everything even the stinger and it wont get rid of it

http://www.computing.net/answers/security/...worm/20233.html

Did you make sure to disable system restore and delete the old system restore files to make sure that is not where the infection is still hiding?

It was as they say :::
Hunted down and taken out
Thank You For the spybot link

fdisk!! that will solve it

I am scanning my computer with spybot. I really hope this works because i have tried everything. And i even turned off and deleted my old system restore files but i can't get rid of this damn worm

The worm i have is called the w32 forever worm idk if there is a difference