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Get infected by Virut Virus.

Any one has idea how to protect system from Virut Virus? please advice as our system get killed. Please share.
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consider getting http://www.kaspersky.com/ it protects from nearly all viruses and is a great investment expecially if you are getting bothered by the virut virus
also if you want a free alternative you could try this http://free.grisoft.com/doc/2/
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Dear cspanick,

We have AV tools but still have this virus infecting our system, any port or rules we have to create or disable in order to stop the spreading ?

hmm do you happen to know what version of the virut virus it is because there are many diffrent kinds
How to tell what version it is, from the result of the virus scanner ?
yes the virus scanner should tell you
Use recommendations on http://www.enigmasoftware.com/support/virusviruta-removal/. Patches firewall and updated AV should prevent this.
let me check and update you later on.
hi,

just use Nod32 v. 2.9.37  

will remove it..
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Thanks rpggamergirl,

thanks for your advice and it seems that the way Virus works as they don't allow you to recover,

Usually an antivirus can remove common viruses, it's only this specific "Virut" virus that disinfection is not successful because you can't clean the infected files and there are no backup files to replace those .exe and .scr files.

Some file-infectors infect the system by replacing legit .exes by itself but moves the original files intact to bak folders, which is handy because we can always replace the infected file with the original files from bak folders.
But with Virut, it's not the case, so a reformat is the way to overcome it.

Best of luck!
Thank you.
Reformat is the way to go unfortunately. Spent a lot of time with two variants of Virut. Even after AVG and symantec removal tool, manual clean up/removal on the HD from another computer, corrected policies in registry, sfc /scannow, fdisk, and a windows repair.... still get svchost errors and cmd crashes explorer...
Got it clean but can't fix the damage, so save yourself the time and format. I've seen reports of it coming back after format... so might want to do a fdisk /mbr and a full format.

VIRUS WILL INFECT EXE's ON A MEMORY STICK AND SPREAD INFECTION TO ANOTHER COMPUTER.
If you have used any executable form a USB stick on a Virut infected PC. Make sure you have autoplay off, and use the AVG tool to clean your stick. You can tell the tool what drive to scan from command prompt.