Friday
2008-11-29, 21:39
The following instructions have been created to help you to get rid of "VividGalut" manually.
Use this guide at your own risk; software should usually be better suited to remove malware, since it is able to look deeper.
If this guide was helpful to you, please consider donating towards this site (http://www.safer-networking.org/index.php?page=donate).
Threat Details:
Removal Instructions:
Autorun:
Please use Spybot-S&D (http://www.safer-networking.org/index.php?page=spybotsd), RunAlyzer (http://www.safer-networking.org/index.php?page=runalyzer) or msconfig.exe to remove the following autorun entries.
Entries pointing to "vividgalut.exe".
Registry:
You can use regedit.exe (included in Windows) to locate and delete these registry entries.
A key in HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\ named "IEEvtOp.IEEvtOp", plus associated values.
A key in HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\ named "IEEvtOp.IEEvtOp.1", plus associated values.
Delete the registry key "{F61228AC-0908-4047-B74E-5CBBB194686B}" at "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\".
Delete the registry key "{358A462F-F83F-4FA7-AE7E-DFE7F7F26044}" at "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\AppID\".
If VividGalut uses rootkit technologies, use our RegAlyzer (http://www.safer-networking.org/index.php?page=regalyzer), RootAlyzer (http://forums.spybot.info/downloads.php?id=8) or our Total Commander anti-rootkit plugins (http://forums.spybot.info/downloads.php?id=3).
Final Words:
If neither Spybot-S&D nor self help did resolve the issue or you would prefer one on one help,
Please read these instructions (http://forums.spybot.info/showthread.php?t=288) before requesting assistance,
Then start your own thread in the Malware Removal Forum (http://forums.spybot.info/forumdisplay.php?f=22) where a volunteer analyst will advise you as soon as available.
Use this guide at your own risk; software should usually be better suited to remove malware, since it is able to look deeper.
If this guide was helpful to you, please consider donating towards this site (http://www.safer-networking.org/index.php?page=donate).
Threat Details:
Removal Instructions:
Autorun:
Please use Spybot-S&D (http://www.safer-networking.org/index.php?page=spybotsd), RunAlyzer (http://www.safer-networking.org/index.php?page=runalyzer) or msconfig.exe to remove the following autorun entries.
Entries pointing to "vividgalut.exe".
Registry:
You can use regedit.exe (included in Windows) to locate and delete these registry entries.
A key in HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\ named "IEEvtOp.IEEvtOp", plus associated values.
A key in HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\ named "IEEvtOp.IEEvtOp.1", plus associated values.
Delete the registry key "{F61228AC-0908-4047-B74E-5CBBB194686B}" at "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\".
Delete the registry key "{358A462F-F83F-4FA7-AE7E-DFE7F7F26044}" at "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\AppID\".
If VividGalut uses rootkit technologies, use our RegAlyzer (http://www.safer-networking.org/index.php?page=regalyzer), RootAlyzer (http://forums.spybot.info/downloads.php?id=8) or our Total Commander anti-rootkit plugins (http://forums.spybot.info/downloads.php?id=3).
Final Words:
If neither Spybot-S&D nor self help did resolve the issue or you would prefer one on one help,
Please read these instructions (http://forums.spybot.info/showthread.php?t=288) before requesting assistance,
Then start your own thread in the Malware Removal Forum (http://forums.spybot.info/forumdisplay.php?f=22) where a volunteer analyst will advise you as soon as available.