Re: cpu at the races
From: Rick \ (rick_at_mvps.org)
Date: 02/18/05
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Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 21:23:52 -0500
Hi Fred,
Your virusscan was being blocked by an active trojan - it doesn't want to be
detected for what it is. Follow these "relatively" simple removal steps:
Restart in Safe mode by hitting F8 as Windows first begins to load on boot.
Logon as administrator. As this can be tricky, you will find help in doing
this here:
http://www.rickrogers.org/fixes.htm#Safe%20mode
Start/search/files and folders, look for vovygw.exe and delete it wherever
it is found (hopefully it is not found if your antivirus software is doing
its job).
Click start/run, type regedit and click ok. Expand the plus (+) signs to
look under these keys:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shared Tools\MSConfig\startupreg
Look in the right hand pane for the string or strings that load that file.
Delete just those strings that contain the reference. Do not delete other
strings or the keys from the left pane. Close the registry editor when
completed, make sure you check all strings.
Go to the Control Panel/System/System Restore tab. Check the box to "Turn
off system restore on all drives". Click apply/ok. This will remove all
restore points, however you don't want them back as some or all of them will
contain the virus depending upon how recently you got infected.
Restart the system normally. Go back to the Control Panel/System and restart
System Restore.
Update your antivirus software, run a full system scan.
-- Best of Luck, Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone Windows help - www.rickrogers.org "Fred DeWitt" <wedgesixty@chartermi.net> wrote in message news:%23o%23tsbUFFHA.3032@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl... > When I returned from work yesterday I noticed my "computer on" light was > solidly on. I ran a virus scan and am clean. The problem seems to be some > file called vovygw.exe. My computer runs just fine but the cpu is working > furiously in the background. I'm not gaining or losing any hard drive > space. Anyone ever have this problem? Thanks. >
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