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Ldm18
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Registered: ‎07-13-2012

please help - zeroaccess.b and patchep!sys

sunday afternoon I rebooted and received pop-up messages regarding aol files that needed to be installed and a message regarding my ati graphics card having problems. Both messages looked fake and I ignored them. However, I was unable to connect online or scan my computer with mcafee. I purchased norton 360 but cannot install it. I made an emergency boot disk from your website and ran it and 7 viruses were found. I was able to remove 5 but Trojan.zeroaccess.b and Trojan.patchep!sys couldn't be removed. Can you please help me get rid of these viruses? Any help you could offer would be very much appreciated. Thank you.
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Quads
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Re: please help - zeroaccess.b and patchep!sys

You need to uninstall McAfee first and then use it's Removal Tool.

 

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Ldm18
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Re: please help - zeroaccess.b and patchep!sys

Use the removal tool for mcafee or norton?
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Ldm18
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Re: please help - zeroaccess.b and patchep!sys

I can't install. I get a MSG that says "an error occurred while trying to uninstall...it may have already been uninstalled" What should I do now? When I ran the norton 360 scan from the boot disk, I was able to get the name of the file infected with zeroaccess - it's located in windows/installer and ends in 80000000.@ the patchep!,sys virus did not appear in the found viruses section of the scan results. Thank you again for your help
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Quads
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Re: please help - zeroaccess.b and patchep!sys

Uninstall McAfee and then use the McAfee Removal tool, you can't have McAfee and Norton on your system at the same time.

 

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Ldm18
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Registered: ‎07-13-2012

Re: please help - zeroaccess.b and patchep!sys

I cannot uninstall mcafee. I tried using the mcafee uninstall option on the start/programs menu and then uninstall through control panel. What is the next step?
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Quads
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Re: please help - zeroaccess.b and patchep!sys

I will not be removing the infection with more than one AV fighting me and the infection.

 

http://service.mcafee.com/FAQDocument.aspx?id=TS101331

 

Run the Removal Tool in Safe Mode.

 

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Ldm18
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Registered: ‎07-13-2012

Re: please help - zeroaccess.b and patchep!sys

The instructions Include using either add/remove programs or accessing an online option. as I indicated, add/remove does not work and I have no internet access. How should I proceed?
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Re: please help - zeroaccess.b and patchep!sys

How are you getting to this forum??

 

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