Friday, January 9, 2009

How to manually remove Backdoor.livup (msstart.exe) Trojan-horse?

This method only works on Windows 2000/XP/2003/NT/ME.
Step 1: Configure Microsoft Windows Explorer to show all files, because most Virus and Trojan horse can hide itself. If you already did it, you may skip this step.
1. Click Start, point to Settings, and Control Panel, and then click Folder Options.
2. In the Folder Options dialog box, click the View tab.
3. In the Advanced settings box, deselect the Hide protected operating system files (Recommended).
4. Select the Show hidden files and folders.
5. Deselect the Hide file extensions for unknown file types.
6. Click OK to save changes.
Or Download RRT(Remove Restrictions Tool) a tool to re-enable Ctrl+Alt+Del, Folder Options and Registry tools.
Step 2: Press Ctrl+Alt+Del, open Task Manager Program, click Processes tab, and find msstart.exe process, if found, select it and click End Process to kill it.
Step 3: Go to the folder of SystemRoot\Winnt\System32 (If your Windows NT/2000/XP/2003 installed on driver C: then the folder is C:\Winnt\System32), find msstart.exe and directly delete it. Or you can also search for all of msstart.exe files by using Windows Search feature (WINDOWS+F shortcut key), and delete them all.
If all of the steps are completed correctly, then the Trojan has been completely removed.


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