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Nasty Virus, Possible Vundo Variant

Asked by beigs in Latest Threats, HijackThis Software, Anti-Spyware

Tags: virus, windows xp professional

I've never met a virus I couldn't defeat until today!  I think, after some research, this maybe some kind of Vundo.OE variant, but I can't be sure.  Normally when I run into a virus/malware like this, I try to remove it manually, and then use MalwareBytes if I run into trouble, but MalwareBytes won't open on the computer, even if I rename the exe file and try it in safe mode.

I've attached a copy of the HijackThis log.  The line: "AppInit_DLLs: wepekigi.dll" is where I am running into trouble.  HijackThis throws an error if I try to remove it from there.

In safe mode, I change the file attributes and remove it, then delete all registry keys related to the file, but the registry keys come back immediately, even in safe mode, and if I reboot, the file comes back (with a different name now) and all of the registry keys are updated to match the new file name.  I've been through this five times now.

I also tried the Vundo removal programs, and all of them say nothing was found.

AVG (the full version) simply says that no viruses are found until the virus that is obviously on the computer downloads some other piece of malware.

I've checked the processes and nothing seems out of place, in safe mode or not.

Any help with this one would be greatly appreciated.
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