Manual Removal Guide for Win32.Agent.ECD

The following instructions have been created to help you to get rid of "Win32.Agent.ECD" manually.
Use this guide at your own risk; software should usually be better suited to remove malware, since it is able to look deeper.

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Threat Details:

Categories:

• trojan

Description:

This trojan horse is a fake svchost.exe, which has its files hidden and running in background without user consent. It appears to be affiliated with slimtoolbar. References point to Afghanistan and China.

Supposed Functionality:

Supposed to be Windows System file svchost.exe

Removal Instructions:

Files:

Important: There are more files that cannot be safely described in simple words. Please use Spybot-S&D to remove them.

Registry:

You can use regedit.exe (included in Windows) to locate and delete these registry entries.

• Remove "<$WINDIR>\svchost.exe" from registry value "svchost.exe" at "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\policies\Explorer\Run\".

If Win32.Agent.ECD uses rootkit technologies, use our RegAlyzer, RootAlyzer or our Total Commander anti-rootkit plugins.

Final Words:

If neither Spybot-S&D nor self help did resolve the issue or you would prefer one on one help,

1. Please read these instructions before requesting assistance,
2. Then start your own thread in the Malware Removal Forum where a volunteer analyst will advise you as soon as available.