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  • 1.  Anybody have any info. on removing the "daofinder" virus

    Posted Mar 09, 2010 09:12 PM

    I have the daofinder virus on XP. Norton 360 does not detect it.

    If you run any search engine, and click on a link, you get redirected to the daofinder page, although the address bar shows av.rds.yahoo.com plus a string of garbage. If yiou type the link into the address bar however, the correct site comes up.

    Also, you cannot cut and paste: If you try, a big ugly cursor appears. However, you can highlight a link and do edit, copy, paste with the toolbar.
    Also, when I was editing a spread sheet, the same ugly cursor appeared when I tried to cut and paste, and proceeded to delete the spread sheet line by line.

    I updated all my definitions today to no avail.



  • 2.  RE: Anybody have any info. on removing the "daofinder" virus

    Posted Mar 09, 2010 09:39 PM
    Maybe there are unwanted process running on  your system.
    Try to download process explorer. Then terminate any suspicious application file.