Virus

Chen Kenichi · Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2003 8:20 pm Post subject: Virus

After many attempts at trying to get steam installed, I visited several steam FAQ sites to see if anyone was having the same trouble as me. I can get steam installed without a problem, but when I try to launch it steam stalls for a minute and then pops up with a generic windows error-- Steam has encountered a problem, we're sorry for the inconvience.

To my disbelief, several people had the exact same problem, but no one had a solution. Finally I came across one guy who ran a virus check and found a virus which would supposedly hinder several programs from starting.

So, I got the AVG anti-virus scanner and ran a test. Sure enough, it found over 400 files infected with a Win32/Parite virus. Unfortunately, AVG could not disinfect my system as in the case of the other victim. I'm still screwed.

Does anyone know anything about the Win32/Parite virus or anything similar? Any known sources where I would have picked the virus up? Any way to get rid of it besides a wipeout of my system?
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OpTlk · Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2003 8:39 pm Post subject:

http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.pinfi.html

http://www.bitdefender.com/bd/site/virusinfo.php?menu_id=1&v_id=137

according to the AKA list, this is the same virus. unfortuantely i dont know anything about it, hope this helps though.

also found several ppl mentioning pandaware.com/ as a source for getting rid of it.
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Chen Kenichi · Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2003 10:16 pm Post subject:

Thank you for the symantec link Optik. It does help out a lot.
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