help getting rid of adware/virus/worm

Dark Lord · Nov 19, 2004, 03:23 AM

well im not exactly sure what it is because i cant find any info on what it is.
the program in question is called *rasnut, it appeard on my system after i got rid of some other pop up crap that was called wavedos.exe. after i got rid of that vgamsvc appeard, once i got rid of vgamsvc then rasnut appeard and i cant get rid of it now.
the actual program is currently in windows/driver cache, and theres another part of it called rasnut.exe 27708b6f.pf sitting in windows/prefetch. i can get rid of the rasnut.exe 277 no problem but it keeps comeing back.

so far ive ran spybot, adaware, and spy hunter on it and cant get rid of it. ive also tried to manualy delete it but it says access denied.

im out of ideas here and preping for a format, not something i want to do. if any one can help it would be greatly appreciated.

im running windows xp sp1

i probably should mention its killing my system performance, and internet speed on this comp. my other comps internet speed is still good.

Dark Lord · Nov 19, 2004, 04:27 AM

help? suggestions? anything? any one?

*edit
i got rid of rasnut, but a new item appeard. its called *psdll. any one know how to get rid of this damn thing permenantly?

*edit x2
ok, i think its finaly gone.....
what a pain in the ass the last 3 hours have been

pr0digal jenius · Nov 19, 2004, 07:17 AM

sorry....hope you got it all fixed...the best thing to do in cases like that is boot to safemode and unplug the internet and try from there. clear the prefetch, run services.msc, msconfig, etc

Dark Lord · Nov 19, 2004, 07:20 AM

ohhh safe mode became my friend. i know right now it ended up being a hack job getting it out, but its out and the system is running fine. thats all i care about right now.

pr0digal jenius · Nov 19, 2004, 07:36 AM

gotta put this one in the win column then

refraction · Nov 19, 2004, 09:16 AM

yeh, run msconfig and look at what loads on startup, uncheck everything that you dont know what it does.

Nov 19, 2004, 03:23 AM	#1
Dark Lord HardwareHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Grand Rapids, MI Posts: 5,945 Rep Power: 125 System Specs	help getting rid of adware/virus/worm well im not exactly sure what it is because i cant find any info on what it is. the program in question is called rasnut, it appeard on my system after i got rid of some other pop up crap that was called wavedos.exe. after i got rid of that vgamsvc appeard, once i got rid of vgamsvc then rasnut appeard and i cant get rid of it now. the actual program is currently in windows/driver cache, and theres another part of it called rasnut.exe 27708b6f.pf sitting in windows/prefetch. i can get rid of the rasnut.exe 277 no problem but it keeps comeing back. so far ive ran spybot, adaware, and spy hunter on it and cant get rid of it. ive also tried to manualy delete it but it says access denied. im out of ideas here and preping for a format, not something i want to do. if any one can help it would be greatly appreciated. im running windows xp sp1 i probably should mention its killing my system performance, and internet speed on this comp. my other comps internet speed is still good. Last edited by another-user; Nov 19, 2004 at 03:51 AM.*

Nov 19, 2004, 04:27 AM	Thread Starter #2
Dark Lord HardwareHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Grand Rapids, MI Posts: 5,945 Rep Power: 125 System Specs	help? suggestions? anything? any one? edit i got rid of rasnut, but a new item appeard. its called psdll. any one know how to get rid of this damn thing permenantly? edit x2 ok, i think its finaly gone..... what a pain in the ass the last 3 hours have been Last edited by another-user; Nov 19, 2004 at 05:16 AM.*

Nov 19, 2004, 09:16 AM	#6
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Nov 19, 2004, 07:17 AM	#3
pr0digal jenius Delete Me Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 14,648 Rep Power: 0	sorry....hope you got it all fixed...the best thing to do in cases like that is boot to safemode and unplug the internet and try from there. clear the prefetch, run services.msc, msconfig, etc

Nov 19, 2004, 07:20 AM	Thread Starter #4
Dark Lord HardwareHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Grand Rapids, MI Posts: 5,945 Rep Power: 125 System Specs	ohhh safe mode became my friend. i know right now it ended up being a hack job getting it out, but its out and the system is running fine. thats all i care about right now.

Nov 19, 2004, 07:36 AM	#5
pr0digal jenius Delete Me Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 14,648 Rep Power: 0	gotta put this one in the win column then