This virus has me stumped

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Colleague has virus on laptop. This folder (TTHDHGC) appears on flashdrive if inserted + autorun.inf.

Neither Avast (with pre-bootscan) nor AVG 9 (scanned in safe mode) even picks it up.

I format the flash drive but within seconds those files are back on the stick again.
 
Hey i had the same virus :D Which operating system are you running?
 
Well we had that virus on our network. Finally got rid of it when we moved from SEP to Microsoft Forefront Security.
 
Guys, is it just me, or have I never had any of these viruses since I got Vista/7? These flash transerrable viruses
 
Worm.
Copies itself from one drive to another.

Probably the biggest culprit for spreading viruses and/or worms are Flash drives/disks. A computer was infected on my network recently by someone putting in a flash disk. The opposite can happen when the harddrive on your laptop has a worm as it will copy itself on to any other hard drives connected to the laptop, a flash disk being a drive in itself. Don't put that flash drive into another PC which does not have Anti Virus software installed btw.
 
I don't think we can be sure if you have had any viruses since then :/ I think windows 7 is safer though, since Vista it doesn't allow things to write to each other that easily, with the permissions etc. I think :D
 
Microsoft Security Essentials was the the only AV that removed it from a few PC's - scan and remove, then ensure all external drives are set to scan when inserted into the PC.
 
:mad: I'm getting p'd off with these worms :mad:

:mad: so want to catch a worm programmer and subject him/her/it to some intensive "interrogation" :mad:
 
Sophos catches it before it gets a chance to spread.

Get a real AV.

edit: malwarebytes is also awesome.
 
There are far worse worms than this one out there.

Got such a worm on my network last year - and none of the AV programs picked it up. Still undetectable by most AV scanners today.

Only way you'll know you're infected is, is that your firewall logs will show a lot of outgoing packets.

Symptoms on Windoze is that there's a blue screen during which you reset your pc, and nothing further happens, except that your PC is now a zombie, hunting for other PC's to infect.

The only way to combat this menace is to have firewalls enabled all round.
 
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