What is
Navidad Trojan Virus?
This new Internet trojan travels via email.
Every response has the subject, "RE:" and the worm as an attachment
(NAVIDAD.EXE). This worm also displays a message box upon execution and
maps the opening of Windows executables so that it is executed instead
of the executable that is called. This causes most Windows programs to
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How
to Clean/Delete the Navidad Trojan?
The registry needs to
edited to delete this Trojan
The easiest solution to
cleaning this trojan virus is to download a program to clean up the
registry entries and delete the dropped file, WINSVRC.VXD. This
download can be found at
http://www.antivirus.com/vinfo/security/fix_navi.com.
After cleaning the
system, restart it and run an anti-virus program to detect and clean
any other infected files.
How
to Manually Clean the Navidad Trojan
- Click on Start,
Find, Files or Folders
- Search for REGEDIT.EXE
- Rename REGEDIT.EXE to REGEDIT.COM
- Run REGEDIT.COM
- In the left panel of the Registry Editor, click on
the "+" at left of the names to go to the registry below:
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\exefile\shell\open\command
- In the right panel, double-click on the entry with
the data
(Default) = "%systemdir%\WINSVRC.EXE"%1""%*"
where %systemdir% is the Windows system directory; e.g.,
\WINDOWS\SYSTEM for Win 9x, and \WINNT\SYSTEM32 for NT/2K.
- In the Edit window that appears, delete the entire
first part of the string, leaving behind "%1"%*"
- As in step 5, go to the registry entry below:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
- Click on the entry below, then press "DELETE"
Win32BaseServiceMOD = %systemdir%\WINSVRC.EXE
- Go to the registry entry below:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Navidad
- Delete this key
- Reboot your system
- Scan your system with an up-to-date virus scanner
- Rename REGEDIT.COM back to REGEDIT.EXE
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