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AV8SCAN

myshininghour
Level 2

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myshininghour
Level 2

What is it and what can I do to stop it.

Pawel_Lakomski1
Level 4
Accredited Certified

What product you use? Is it Symantec Antivirus 8?

Thomas_K
Level 6

Sounds like a fake AV product has infected your system.

 

If you are using SEP or SAV, I would start with downloading the latest Rapid Release definitions.

If using any other AV, make sure you have the latest definitions as well.

One you have the new defs, boot into safe mode and running a Disk Cleanup (right-click the C drive, Properties, Disk Cleanup) - that will delete all the files that are in these temporary locations, as well as IE's temporary files, etc. Perform a full system scan in safe mode.

If that fails to detect and remove the threats,

there are useful some tools that are provided by Symantec for help with finding those hard to detect threats.

1.       The Power Eraser Tool eliminates deeply embedded and difficult to remove threats that traditional virus scanning doesn't always detect.

2. The SERT (Symantec Endpoint Recovery Tool)is useful in situations where computers are too heavily infected for the Symantec Endpoint Protection client installed upon them to clean effectively.

 

3. The Load point Analysis Tool generates a detailed report of the programs loaded on your system. It is helpful in listing common loadpoints where threats can live.

 

 

Rapid Release Virus Definitions –

http://www.symantec.com/business/security_response/definitions/download/detail.jsp?gid=rr

 

Power Eraser tool –

http://security.symantec.com/nbrt/npe.asp?lcid=1033&origin=default

 

How To Use the Symantec Endpoint Recovery Tool with the Latest Virus Definitions –http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH131732&locale=en_US

 

Support Tool with Power Eraser Tool included –

http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH105414&locale=en_US

How to use the Load Point Analysis within the Symantec Support Tool to help locate suspicious files http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH141402

If you are unable to remove the threat(s) from your systems, please submit the suspected files to Symantec or ThreatExpert for analysis. New signatures will be created and included in future definition sets for detection.

 

http://www.symantec.com/business/security_response/submitsamples.jsp

http://www.threatexpert.com/submit.aspx

 

 

Good luck,

Thomas

_r___
Level 6
Certified

Please see this link on how to remove:

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/virus-removal/remove-antivirus8

chasu
Not applicable

Will the AV8SCAN disinfection/removal advice also work with Norton Security Suite?  I'm running the Norton comprehensive scan at the moment, the rest seems a bit out of my league.

_r___
Level 6
Certified

Yes, it should. The removal is not dependent/related to NSS so it should work fine.