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Tuesday, October 7, 2008

How to remove Godzilla virus?

Now a days the increasing use of Pen Drives various types of virus infect a system is very easily. One of these common viruses is Godzilla Virus.

Common symptoms:
1.This text ‘Hacked by Godzilla Virus’ at the top of the Internet Explorer
2.Task Manager is disabled.
3.regedit (Command for Registry edit) is disabled.
4.Folder Options got disappeared
5.Can’t open any of your Hard drive (C:, D:, etc) by double clicking
6.msconfig command is disabled


To remove Godzilla virus, follow the step by step procedure given below
1.Run Process Explorer and end all the process which is running as wscript.exe
2.Run RRT (Remove Restrictions Tool, it is a small program that enables all what the virus disabled)(You can download Process Explorer and RRT at the Download Center given to the left side bar of this site)

Now, your regedit command is enabled, then


3.Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \Software \Microsoft \Windows \Current Version \Run and delete MS32DLL (right click on it and select delete)
4.Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER \Software \Microsoft \Internet Explorer \Main and delete ‘Window Title’ which has a value of ‘Hacked by Godzilla’
5.Go to Windows Explorer -> Tools -> Folder Options -> ViewUnder Advanced settings,
select ‘Show hidden files and folders’
uncheck ‘Hide extensions for known file types’
uncheck ‘Hide protected operating system files (Recommended)’
then Apply and OK
6.Then right click on each of your Hard drives including Pen Drive and click ‘Explore’ now delete the files with names autorun.inf and MS32DLL.dll.vbs
Restart your PC and your PC should be clean from Godzilla virus.
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