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O.P. Virus? how does it even exist?
Antivirus: Nod32

Windows: XP

I dont have a E: drive, but my antivirus says autorun.inf is infected with a worm, its come up a few times now...

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RE: Virus? how does it even exist?
Does it do anything when you type "E:\" in explorer manually (without the quotes)?

Might also have been a removable drive (USB device?), or worst case a virus hiding on it's own virtual drive.
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RE: Virus? how does it even exist?
Start > Run > diskmgmt.msc

Some disks ship with a hidden recovery partition. If you look on there, it will show you if there are any hidden partitions on the disk

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Does it do anything when you type "E:\" in explorer manually (without the quotes)?

Might also have been a removable drive (USB device?), or worst case a virus hiding on it's own virtual drive.

hm my parents dont have pen drives, although the printer has a memory card slot that shows up.

but that wasnt on when this virus alert appeared last...


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Start > Run > diskmgmt.msc

Some disks ship with a hidden recovery partition. If you look on there, it will show you if there are any hidden partitions on the disk

just C: and D:

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well im running in depth scans and stuff now so... hmmmm!


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RE: Virus? how does it even exist?
ahahah you have a rootkit

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ESET Nod32 sucks! =[
Go for BitDefender Total Security, it is an utterly professional Antivirus solution and stuff. Moreover, if you PM me, you might be able to obtain a method to get it working for 4,000 days. ;)

nod32 is WAYYYYYYYYY better than bitdefender.
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O.P. RE: Virus? how does it even exist?
is it a rootkit then?

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RE: Virus? how does it even exist?
Back on topic please.

The only thing I can think of is the earlier suggestion of a removable storage device. Those usually have an autorun file as well.
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RE: Virus? how does it even exist?
If you open the command prompt and type
c:\folder\you\are\in> e:

does it change to drive e or say invalid drive?
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will see fi the problem persists

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O.P. RE: Virus? how does it even exist?
Right well, the virus is:
Win32/Autorun.Agent.JM Worm

It pops up whenever a usb device (even my printer which has removable storage) is turned on/ plugged in to the computer

When the device is in, the warning message comes up, saying it has been moved to quarantine, but closing it, it will come back a few seconds later.

Googling just took me to a list of virus's that NOD32 virus now finds in its updates.... nothing about removing it.

Can anyone help with this?

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