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C-dilla Removal

Asked by larryfretwell in Miscellaneous Security

Tags: remove

I recently bought a used computer. When I took it out of the box, I found several older-version software CDs and, over a period of a couple of months, installed 6 or 8 of them on my newer machine. They're all uninstalled now and have been passed on in the box when I resold the older one. However, I do have a memento -- the C-dilla trojan.

Hardly anybody really knows anything useful about C-dilla and there is no fix available for it. It's supposed to be in Add/Remove Programs, but it's not. There is supposed to be an uninstall for it at Intuit, but it's been removed, besides, there are so many different versions, I might never hit the right one. Spybot is supposed to remove it, but it doesn't. I've been to many forums and done tons of searching -- I get hardly any response at all.

Listed below are what I've found on my system:

1) C-Dilla  -- Non-Plug and Play Driver (enabled).

2) CDANTSRV.EXE -- C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers.

3) CDANT.SYS -- C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers.

4) CDILLA16.EXE -- C:\Windows.

5) F:DRIVE -- Mysterious 16-bit, 46.9MB partition that contains a folder called TEST, It tests the modem, bios, etc for something, probably illegal software. I didn't load this partition, nor did Windows or eMachines, but guess what sometimes loads a partition when it is installed -- yep, C-dilla.

6) 34 entries in the registry (there could be more that I can't find).

I'd like to avoid formatting at this time so I've made a full data backup, backed up the Registry, and set a new restore point. All I know to do is to start deleting, and take anything I can't delete to the DOS prompt to continue trying. I'm not sure, however, of the order in which the files (including the driver in Device Manager and the Registry entries) should be deleted. Also, should I do any reboots during this process?  
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