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“I Dont hate Mozilla but use IE or Else” virus…

Posted by shreeharshagp on May 16, 2007

Few days back when i tried to open mozilla firefox i got a message “I Dont hate mozilla but use IE or Else”… this was my first encounter with a virus… My antiVirus couldn’t detect it… thats bad.. :(

My senior Colleague at office Mr. Mohan, he is a person who guides me in all my system related queries. Thanks Mohan. when i said him about this he went through google…. and landed on to a site “mozillaZine” where people discuss about the virus. Thankfully people had already found solution for this virus. Which had blocked my mozilla firefox but IE was accessible. even with IE i was unable to visit orkut.

I heard these days virus are spreading through USBs. So one precaution measure would be to disable the auto run feature in the system. How to do this ? follow the simple steps:

  1. Click Start -> Run.
  2. Type RegEdit in the Open text box, then press ENTER.
  3. In the Registry Editor, locate and click the following registry key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\CDRom

  1. Modify the value of the Autorun to 0 (zero) so that CD-ROMs and Audio CDs do not run and start automatically when inserted.
  2. Next navigate to the following registry subkey:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer

  1. Modify the value of the NoDriveTypeAutoRun entry to 0xb5 value to turn off the AutoRun feature for CD-ROMs by right-click NoDriveTypeAutoRun and then click Modify to type B5 in the Value data box. Select Hexadecimal, and then click OK.
  2. Quit Registry Editor.
  3. Restart your computer.

 
After three days of effort i could kill that virus from my system. Thanks to Mohan and members of mozillaZine.  The steps to kill the virus is…

  1. Go to Task Manager (Ctrl+Alt+Del)
  2. in that click on Process Tab
  3. Delete only the svchost.exe of your user name
  4. type c:\heap41a in you address barof your explorer and you can trace this folder
  5. Now give a smile… you have done it….

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213 Responses to ““I Dont hate Mozilla but use IE or Else” virus…”

  1. Suresh Says:
    May 23, 2007 at 9:20 am

    Good Work, the issue ” I DNT HATE MOZILLA..” is fixed by deleting the ” svchost.exe ” from ” c:\heap41a” …Thank you very much for the solution :)

  2. Rohit Says:
    May 23, 2007 at 4:30 pm

    thanks a lot!!

  3. karthikeyan Says:
    May 28, 2007 at 4:22 pm

    Now thats really AMAZING. With all the spywares and adwares loaded, yet this visus was in and kicking and I felt, this is one serious virus indeed. I could have never imagined the solution could be so simple and perfect. thankyou sir

  4. Vishal Says:
    June 1, 2007 at 7:56 am

    Thanks a lot man, it fixed my problem, take care…

  5. Narasimhan Says:
    June 3, 2007 at 8:23 am

    Thanks a ton dude! Was able to fix the problem in a jiffy! :)
    Cheers!

  6. Lenin Says:
    June 4, 2007 at 3:28 am

    Hello Shree

    Thanks for your help…is there any way to add this virus to the anti-virus list…to avoid future attacks.

    You have been a relief….

  7. shekhar Says:
    June 4, 2007 at 7:40 am

    Thanks alot. solved my problem.

  8. gsramesh Says:
    June 5, 2007 at 1:05 pm

    gr8 work thank u, relieved, thanks a log………..

  9. Chinkal Says:
    June 6, 2007 at 1:26 pm

    thanks a lot for great solution… thank you

  10. Golhtx Says:
    June 7, 2007 at 7:36 pm

    Hi! nice site!

  11. shreeharshagp Says:
    June 11, 2007 at 11:47 am

    Hello Lenin,

    Nice to hear from you… sorry for the delayed response.

    Yes, you can add to the anti-virus list. You can do this by sending an intimation to the anti-virus company that you use.

    But it depends on the impact this virus has created… to Anti-Virus company to consider its signature…

  12. ravivarma Says:
    June 12, 2007 at 9:01 am

    For Guys who wants screen shots and gif images to remove the worm, can go through the following site

    worm-remove.html

  13. shreeharshagp Says:
    June 12, 2007 at 9:31 am

    Hello Ravi,

    Thanks for your good visual description of how to tackle the problem… This will help any novice to handle this virus. Your effort is appreciated.

    Cheers!!! keep this good work ON….

  14. Ann Says:
    June 15, 2007 at 10:58 am

    hi Shreeharsha,

    Thanks a lot for ur valuable guidance.Atlast i m able to tackle the problem:)thanks a lot

  15. Gujjar Says:
    June 18, 2007 at 6:42 pm

    Awesome man..your solution worked perfectly… thanks!!

  16. AnkithGowda Says:
    June 19, 2007 at 12:30 pm

    thank you very much..
    i really needed your help very badly..
    i donno what kick these people will get by doing things like this..
    good work. i really appreciate

    Regards,
    Ankith

  17. divyashree urs Says:
    June 19, 2007 at 12:38 pm

    hiii Harsha,

    Thnx a ton for ur help…..amazin haan…such kind of online help is like a blessing in disguise….so handy…thnk u so much again….

  18. sajith Says:
    June 21, 2007 at 3:02 pm

    dude, brilliant…amazing work….u just saved me a lot of time…thanks and keep up the good work…..

  19. jyoti Says:
    June 27, 2007 at 8:28 pm

    thaaaaaaanks alot your great help…..!

  20. jyoti Says:
    June 27, 2007 at 8:29 pm

    Amazing it just took 2 mins to correct it…it was troubling me since last 1 week..thanks a lot

  21. Pgt Says:
    June 30, 2007 at 6:20 am

    Hi
    Thanks a lot!!!

  22. Sudhi Says:
    July 4, 2007 at 2:32 am

    10 cheers…
    great…..
    Thanks a lot…

  23. Mangesh Says:
    July 4, 2007 at 8:41 am

    Dear Shreeharsha

    Thank you very much just because of guidelines I could solve my problem withins few miniutes.

    Thanks a lot.

  24. Anuroop Says:
    July 6, 2007 at 7:22 am

    hey thank you very much. my problem is solved but i am not able to delete svchost.exe in c:\heap41a…can u plz help??!!

  25. shreeharshagp Says:
    July 6, 2007 at 4:39 pm

    Hello Anuroop,

    Thanks for expressing your views… you needn’t delete all the svchost.exe. You have to delete only those which has your system name as user name. for example if your system name is Jack. then delete the svchost.exe with jack in the user name. there will be other svchost.exe which are system critical. By deleting these your system may get other problems.

    Please let me know if i understood your question correctly…

  26. Viral Says:
    July 10, 2007 at 6:26 am

    Thanks a million!
    This is the first time my computer got infected with a virus.
    Thanks to you, it no longer exists!

  27. archana Says:
    July 11, 2007 at 2:00 pm

    hi

    thanks a ton..it really worked.god bless u :-)

  28. naresh Says:
    July 12, 2007 at 2:07 pm

    thank you very much for your help….its nice work.

  29. sopan Says:
    July 14, 2007 at 6:05 am

    Nice Thanks a lot

    Take care

  30. Andrew Says:
    July 15, 2007 at 1:25 am

    lol, Looks like the Virus Writers are getting scared of Firefox and it’s Security…

  31. Kiran Says:
    July 17, 2007 at 12:28 am

    thankzzz bro!…nd thankz to google for helpin me find this page! :)

  32. shiju Says:
    July 17, 2007 at 7:37 am

    thanks much!!!
    issue solved

  33. PRH Says:
    July 18, 2007 at 6:31 pm

    Hi,thank…after a big fight i could get rid of that nasty virus..thanks a lot……..

  34. Abhishek Says:
    July 21, 2007 at 1:18 pm

    Hi ShreeHarshaGP,

    Thank you very much for this article.

    My experience was that I was infected by the same virus. It remained undetected after searching for it using AVG free. I ended up re-installing my OS. I had backedup all my data in one of the drives that I didnt format. After reinstalling the OS, the virus sisnt show for a few days, but then it suddenly appeared today. If not for your article I would be screwed.

    Is there anything else that I need to keep in mind after following all the procedures prescribed by you. Should I change any of the settings?

    Thanks and regards,

    Abhishek.

  35. Mahendra Says:
    July 22, 2007 at 6:55 am

    Thanx alot, I facing problem from a week and now iam very happy with your solution.

  36. shreeharshagp Says:
    July 22, 2007 at 8:00 am

    Hi Abhishek,

    First of all sorry to hear that you need to re-install your OS. Happy that you could knock off the virus….

    Nothing preventive measures as such for this virus. Because two days back i was infected by the same virus when i plugged in my friend Kashyap’s Pen drive. As i had mentioned earlier now a days the viruses are spreading through USB. Avoid using others pen drives or your own in cyber cafe…

    But if you do also keep a printed copy of the solution to this virus. That may come handy in resolving the same…

    If possible try sending this virus to your anti-virus company so that the add this virus signature…

    cheers… Enjoy madi…

  37. saketh Says:
    July 22, 2007 at 5:26 pm

    thax alot

  38. sajan Says:
    July 23, 2007 at 4:37 am

    Thank you for the timely help.
    I have relieved a lot.. thank you.

  39. Vimal Bharathi Says:
    July 23, 2007 at 11:27 am

    Thanks for ur valuable information

  40. Prax Says:
    July 24, 2007 at 11:57 am

    Man thnx a lot….

  41. Manoj kumar Says:
    July 25, 2007 at 5:30 am

    Thanks sir.
    I had also the same problem.. solved after deleting that file..

    thank you again…

  42. Kuldeep ingh Says:
    July 25, 2007 at 7:00 am

    Thanx for cute solution.

  43. Kuldeep Singh Says:
    July 25, 2007 at 7:00 am

    Thnx alot for cute solution

  44. Surya Says:
    July 26, 2007 at 11:18 am

    Thanks a lot!!!!! was wonderin if it was some serious stuff :)

  45. Neeraj Says:
    July 26, 2007 at 5:39 pm

    thanks man , great work

    Cheers
    Neeraj

  46. raj Says:
    July 27, 2007 at 4:02 am

    hey i cant delete that file in c:\heap41a…. can u tell me the solution……

  47. shiny Says:
    July 27, 2007 at 4:38 am

    Thank you so much!!!! :)

  48. P.A.N Says:
    July 27, 2007 at 10:49 am

    Thanx for a suggestion to kill the virus “I dont hate Mozilla But use IE or Else…”

  49. swaminathan Says:
    July 28, 2007 at 7:16 am

    Hi Man

    Its indeed a need and perfect solution.

    Thnx a ton

  50. Ankit SHah Says:
    July 28, 2007 at 6:04 pm

    thanx a lot …it works..awesome..

  51. tresher Says:
    July 30, 2007 at 4:20 am

    wow! Simple, easy, efficient. Just like everything was supposed to be

  52. Sudarsan Says:
    July 30, 2007 at 5:34 am

    Thanks a ton for the solution.
    I found so easy in cracking this, with your excellent guidance.

    Sudarsan

  53. YY Says:
    July 31, 2007 at 3:04 am

    Thanks a lot, our problem solve successfully as well… :D

  54. Sudarshan.P Says:
    July 31, 2007 at 6:48 pm

    Thank you very much!!! I dont hate FFox or IE or Opera or Safari or anything else… I hate morons like the author of this virus who waste their own time as well as those of others… If they are as intelligent as they think they are, why don’t they solve the harder problems in computer science. Anyway thank you very very much for giving such simple and clear instructions to eliminate the virus!!!

  55. seemant Says:
    August 1, 2007 at 1:41 am

    Thanks a billion buddy! you solved my problem..

  56. raj Says:
    August 2, 2007 at 5:15 am

    i don`t hate mozilla was been deleted .thanks buddy.
    hey how to delete home page of thecoolpics.net
    and my run,folder options are missing in the list is it attacked by virus?
    kindly advice how to get these back.

  57. ishan Says:
    August 3, 2007 at 3:00 pm

    hey that file is not gettin deleted.
    i dunt knw, wt 2 do?? plz reply..
    how do i delete that file..
    every time its is cumin like “Cannot delete svchost.exe: Access is denied …” plz reply as soon as possible

  58. ishan Says:
    August 3, 2007 at 3:09 pm

    Everytime whn i try openin http://www.orkut.com this msg comes, & thn IE closes:

    Orkut is banned you fool, The administrators didnt write this pgm guess who did?? MUHAHAHA!!

    (PLZ HELP ME OUT, PLZ….)

  59. ishan Says:
    August 3, 2007 at 3:24 pm

    Thnkx a lottttttttttttttttttttt………………………..
    its finally done..
    thnkx man..

  60. anup Says:
    August 4, 2007 at 11:09 am

    hi thanks..it was really helpful..
    i ve one more problem..my system is infected with VBS/Small virus..i tried a lot to remove it but it seems ther is no other option for me other than installing OS once again..if any one ve debugged this,pls inform..thanking you ppl

  61. Aditi Says:
    August 4, 2007 at 4:44 pm

    Hi there…

    I’m possible the most techno-ZILCH person on this planet!! You really saved me from a LOT of panicking..

    Thank you so much!! Really…

    PS: Are we supposed to delete that thing once we’ve found the source? Because i tried and it wouldn’t let me..

  62. Aditi Says:
    August 5, 2007 at 6:09 pm

    Ok.. I have a big problem.. IT CAME BACK!!
    Can someone HELP??!! :(

  63. sundar Says:
    August 5, 2007 at 6:30 pm

    hi.. thanks a lot… finally i m able to browse thro mozilla…

  64. John Says:
    August 6, 2007 at 2:57 am

    woo hoo! thanks mate :)
    asswipes that wrote it need to be wiped off the face of the earth. how do u remove the virus off the pendrive?

  65. Saneesh Joseph Says:
    August 6, 2007 at 5:44 am

    Thanks a lot buddy.. it worked..!

  66. Nagesh Says:
    August 9, 2007 at 1:27 pm

    Hello Shree Harsha GP

    Million Thanks
    I got rid of this bloody message
    We have to chop the head of the person who created it.

  67. ishan Says:
    August 10, 2007 at 1:35 pm

    62. Aditi Says:
    August 5th, 2007 at 6:09 pm

    Ok.. I have a big problem.. IT CAME BACK!!
    Can someone HELP??!! :(

    hey aditi, do the same..
    1. Go to Task Manager (Ctrl+Alt+Del)
    2. in that click on Process Tab
    3. Delete only the svchost.exe of your user name
    4. type c:\heap41a in you address barof your explorer and you can trace this folder

  68. saran Says:
    August 10, 2007 at 3:27 pm

    There also appears to be an entry for this virus, in the registry key - winlogon - under Policies -> Explorer -> Run of HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE. Can also be mercilessly removed, i guess.

  69. Mayank Says:
    August 11, 2007 at 5:19 pm

    i deleted the folder C:\heap41a, and immd started mozilla, it worked. loggedinto orkut aswell usign mozilla. everthgins back to normal. thanks every1.

  70. Bapi Raju Says:
    August 12, 2007 at 11:21 am

    You have shown a great solution to a great problem

  71. saqio Says:
    August 13, 2007 at 4:16 am

    My Computer >> Tools >> Folder Options >> View >> Show Hidden files and folders

    Hidden Files and Folders are not visible even after the file “svchost.exe” is removed from C:\heap41a folder

    None of them are visible………

    What to do??

  72. AJ Says:
    August 14, 2007 at 2:47 pm

    Thanks for the solution….. But this has triggered another problem…..

    I cant view hidden files and folders now…..

    Please suggest wat needs to be done!!!!!!

  73. Anil Says:
    August 14, 2007 at 2:56 pm

    Thanks boss :)

  74. Rajesh Says:
    August 15, 2007 at 8:26 am

    thnks for the fuckin gud solution!!

  75. ranjan Says:
    August 16, 2007 at 2:03 pm

    hello guys,
    thanks for the very detailed help. In my case ctrl+alt+del was not showing task manager. Hmmm.. i did wonder, how your steps can be followed now. Got one quick one step solution for all the problems i had for quite some time.

    Downloaded ‘Dr cureit’, a free antivirus software, and ran it. thats it,
    no more ‘i dont hate…..’ stuff nor any cntrl+alt+del problems :-)
    Hope this cue helps others too….

  76. Shilpa Says:
    August 18, 2007 at 8:59 am

    Hi,
    Thanks soooo much.. cudnt figure out how to get rid of this virus tried everythin till i got this website.. got it solved in a jiffy.. thanks again..

  77. berg Says:
    August 20, 2007 at 9:16 am

    hi..
    tq very much..
    u juz save my day..
    i tried to figured it out the whole morning,but stil…
    so,tq shreeharshaGP..
    lo..

  78. RaviBhushan Says:
    August 20, 2007 at 4:43 pm

    Thanks a lot…………… for guiding us in removing this virus..
    Thanks again .

  79. sachin gupta Says:
    August 20, 2007 at 5:24 pm

    thanks beta!!!!
    aapka yeh ehsaan hum kabhie nahi bhul sakte….apne to humare computer mein fir se roshni bhar dii!!!!
    aap aise hi mehnat karte rahiye ….humara aaashirwaaad aapke saath hai..

  80. Jonko Says:
    August 21, 2007 at 3:40 am

    thanks..

  81. paroma Says:
    August 22, 2007 at 3:36 pm

    cant clean my pen drive of this virus.. evn after reformatting it… it never comes completely empty… 4kb is always shown as used space.. but no autoplay or autorun option comes when i rite click on it.. wht is the problem.. how can i clean the pen drive.. plzzzzzzzzzzz help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    n hey thnks a ton for ur help .. this is the frst time i removed a virus.. n m sooooo happy……………

    but plzzzzz help with cleanin my pen drive….

  82. anand Says:
    August 22, 2007 at 5:30 pm

    i am not able to see my hidden folders , plz help me out
    anyways thanx for the solution of that virus .

  83. yusuf Says:
    August 24, 2007 at 9:42 am

    BRILLIANT!!!U KNOW I JUST LOVE MY COMPUTER….and when something happens to it i go crazy..i could solve the prob..just brilliant job man…….

  84. yusuf Says:
    August 24, 2007 at 9:44 am

    @anand…..just copy “c:\heap41a” to your internet explorers address bar….were u type the adress of websites…..the folder will open and delete all its contents…..CHEERS

  85. vikas Says:
    August 27, 2007 at 11:40 am

    thnx shreeharshgp ……… ws in lot of trouble…
    hey i m facing one more problem …
    when i start my laptop ….. screen comes but m nt able to click on any folder or anywhere …. the only thing dat works is ctrl+alt+del …then i log off .. nd log in again then everything works properly …….. Last time i reinstalled my windows then after sometimes i faced dis problen again

    Any remedy!!!!!!!!!???????

  86. rupesh Says:
    August 29, 2007 at 7:50 pm

    thank u sooooooooo much…i was about 2 format ma system bt dis iz so easy..thanks

  87. venu Says:
    September 2, 2007 at 5:46 pm

    thanks a lot for post .i was deleted the virus and i am able to surf the orkut and mozilla now .
    once again thanks a lot ,

    venu

  88. yogesh Says:
    September 3, 2007 at 9:14 am

    Hey shreeharshagp,

    Thanx a lot

  89. yogesh Says:
    September 3, 2007 at 9:15 am

    Hey shreeharshagp,

    Thanx a lot.

  90. jyothish Says:
    September 3, 2007 at 5:36 pm

    hey loved the post helped me a loads…

  91. Padmanabha. G Says:
    September 3, 2007 at 5:48 pm

    Thanks, dude. it worked like magic. I hated that message so much.

  92. Simi Abin Says:
    September 4, 2007 at 4:30 am

    u did a great job…
    thank You sooo much….for the solution…

  93. arunkenya Says:
    September 5, 2007 at 2:07 pm

    great work done by u,thank you,

  94. rana sisodia Says:
    September 7, 2007 at 4:59 am

    Thats great brother , thanks a lot.

  95. Feroz Says:
    September 7, 2007 at 6:17 am

    Thank you so much!!!!

  96. yogesh... Says:
    September 7, 2007 at 9:19 am

    hey my problem got solved….
    BUT thr is one more problem still remaining i still cant see the hidden folders…as i thought its cuz of virus….but my show hidden folders option doesnt wrk….helpppp/…

  97. linga swamy Says:
    September 7, 2007 at 2:06 pm

    hey my problem got solved….
    BUT thr is one more problem still remaining i still cant see the hidden folders…as i thought its cuz of virus….but my show hidden folders option doesnt wrk….helpppp/…

  98. pappy Says:
    September 7, 2007 at 2:23 pm

    Thanks a ton shreeharshagp what a good solution you have offered, keep it up buddy, I think this virus is spread by sysad of organizations to restrict the people from surfing the wesites listed in the virus. “to hell with u virus spreaders”

  99. Sujal Says:
    September 7, 2007 at 8:35 pm

    Tankssssssssssssssssssssss aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa lot yaar. my prob solved. once again thanks

  100. Ganesh Says:
    September 8, 2007 at 8:52 am

    Thanks a lot man. Good Work

  101. hyudha Says:
    September 8, 2007 at 1:48 pm

    ty vvvmuch….luv u muah…

  102. jaspreet Says:
    September 11, 2007 at 11:10 am

    you need not do dat as well ..kaspersky 7.0 can sccan ur comp and del da virus by itself !!

  103. sharan Says:
    September 11, 2007 at 2:07 pm

    thanx u very much.its good effort.

  104. arun Says:
    September 11, 2007 at 4:40 pm

    awesome man. i had just installed windows and browsed the web without anti-virus for just 1 session and BHAM!! dont know why im still have xp along with linux.. but hey kudos to u. in a minute i got rid of it

  105. Sunil Says:
    September 14, 2007 at 8:45 am

    Thanks! Thanks! Thanks! Never knew it was so easy to get rid of this nasty thing! But obviously not without your help! Otherwise would have even gone for an fresh install…hehe…Thanks again!!!

  106. akhil kumar Says:
    September 14, 2007 at 12:28 pm

    hello thank u so much i may god bless you

  107. akhil kumar Says:
    September 14, 2007 at 12:29 pm

    hello thank u so much Thanks! Thanks! Thanks! Never knew it was so easy to get rid of this nasty thing! But obviously not without your help! Otherwise would have even gone for an fresh install…hehe…Thanks again!!!

  108. Manshul Nagpal Says:
    September 15, 2007 at 9:02 am

    Thanks a ton… I had scanned the whole computer, but nothing helped… Finally i got rid of it.. Thanks a lot again..

  109. Deven Says:
    September 15, 2007 at 8:08 pm

    Thank you dear ,
    for your kind advice it was really helpful , else this malware had busted me …

    After going through the long exercise of scanning my machine twice with two different anti virus is was help less.. and finally I came to your page.

    Thank you again…

  110. Johan -MALAYSI.A Says:
    September 17, 2007 at 6:57 pm

    Hey buddy!
    thanx a lot!
    i was facing the same problem.and now no more problem to open the mozilla….
    thanx a lot…i also couldnt opened d youtube when this virus active in my computer.
    but now, i can open it already

  111. Johan -MALAYSI.A Says:
    September 17, 2007 at 6:59 pm

    Hey buddy!
    thanx a lot!
    i was facing the same problem.and now no more problem to open the mozilla….
    thanx a lot…i also couldnt opened d youtube when this virus active in my computer.
    but now, i can open it already. a lot of thanx from me!
    anyway, i’ve discovered d file at explorer but when i tried to delete d files. it appeared an access is denied. what does that mean? the virus still active or what?
    the svchost.exe file still exist.

  112. Devashish Pradhan Says:
    September 17, 2007 at 8:47 pm

    Hello thanks a lot for your indeed comments and your valuable tip.

    Never knew it was so easy to get rid of this nasty thing! But obviously not without your help!

    Otherwise would have even gone for an fresh install…hehe…Thanks again!!!

    Your blog is very useful..

    Devashish Pradhan

  113. Sayed Abdul Kaleem Kazi Says:
    September 18, 2007 at 11:15 am

    Nice solution so I resolved the issue

  114. Vikram Says:
    September 18, 2007 at 11:51 am

    Thanks dude.. i love you.. i desperately needed Mozilla and this virus was makin me frustrated..

  115. Freddy García Says:
    September 19, 2007 at 1:50 pm

    Thank you very much!

  116. Pólo Computacional Says:
    September 19, 2007 at 2:41 pm

    Obrigado!!!

  117. Sandeep Says:
    September 20, 2007 at 2:27 pm

    Thank you, Thank you, Thank you, Thank you, Thank you, Thank you, Thank you, very much!

  118. rej Says:
    September 21, 2007 at 4:58 am

    great man,

  119. chandni..... Says:
    September 23, 2007 at 9:04 am

    thaaannnnnkkksss!!! a tonnnn!!!! :)))

  120. Arpan Says:
    September 24, 2007 at 9:53 am

    hey all this problem does not get solved completely by just deleting the fine . n doubt Mozilla starts working again. but i m not able to see my hidden files and folders. seems like this virus has made some permanent changes in the registry can any one suggest how to resolve that

  121. dhanam Says:
    September 25, 2007 at 7:03 am

    Thanking so much, I solved problem…….

  122. Sarath Says:
    September 26, 2007 at 6:19 am

    HI Dude..
    Thx a lot man…it really worked…

  123. Mark Says:
    October 1, 2007 at 6:14 pm

    I LOVE YOU!

  124. pranjal Says:
    October 2, 2007 at 5:21 am

    thanks a lot

  125. Raghu Says:
    October 2, 2007 at 2:52 pm

    Thanks a lot frnd… Finally I did it with all ur help n support cheers

  126. kautuk Says:
    October 2, 2007 at 7:48 pm

    thanks. that was very helpful.

  127. indivara Says:
    October 3, 2007 at 8:11 am

    Thank you very much for the advise. I have cleared the virus from my system with in 2 minutes.

  128. Rajan Says:
    October 3, 2007 at 4:53 pm

    Hi!
    Thanks a lot.You have solved my problem.

    Cheers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  129. Sklim Says:
    October 4, 2007 at 7:50 am

    Good work. Greatly appreciated. Thank you.

  130. Manoj Says:
    October 5, 2007 at 5:32 am

    Many Many thanks……

  131. Kshitij Says:
    October 5, 2007 at 8:39 pm

    Thanks a ton! This was bothering me since a long time.

  132. Tom Says:
    October 6, 2007 at 4:19 am

    Thank u very much..i could fix it..

  133. d3ad_simpl3 Says:
    October 6, 2007 at 11:56 am

    thanks a lot..

  134. john Says:
    October 7, 2007 at 2:35 am

    thx a lot

  135. azmi Says:
    October 8, 2007 at 3:20 am

    thanks a lot. i’ve face the problem to. your post has been very2 helpful. thanks again.

  136. james Says:
    October 8, 2007 at 6:04 am

    hey thank u i was really scared when i got that msg “orkut is banned” thank u for helpin keep up the good work

  137. janardhan Says:
    October 8, 2007 at 3:40 pm

    This is very good solution. thank you my friend.

  138. Ravi Prakash Goyal Says:
    October 11, 2007 at 4:06 am

    Thanks buddy, u have saved my favourites folder

  139. Thomas Yim Says:
    October 11, 2007 at 10:53 am

    Thank you to save my fav and fix my problem

  140. Dhruv Says:
    October 12, 2007 at 8:59 am

    Thanks a lot!!
    This mozilla zapper was really gettin on my nerves
    peace out~

  141. Tapas Says:
    October 13, 2007 at 8:30 am

    thanks budddy

    its actually very annoying to see all tha crap message boxes on ur screen while opening web pages.

    anywaz thanks a lot

  142. Ishita Says:
    October 13, 2007 at 11:21 am

    THANKS A TON!

  143. Vanaja Says:
    October 14, 2007 at 3:02 am

    wow!!!!!!!!!!!………………….
    Superb…..
    Thanks a lot and lot…….

  144. Andre Says:
    October 15, 2007 at 7:57 pm

    Thaaanks :D

    You saved my life \o//

  145. Jacob Says:
    October 16, 2007 at 4:10 am

    Thanks brother. You’ve really helped to brighten things up. Thank you!! Thank you!!!

  146. Jerin Says:
    October 17, 2007 at 11:34 am

    Thanx a lot. It worked fine. :-)

  147. Holyboy Says:
    October 18, 2007 at 1:35 pm

    omg thks worked for me too great help site i was so scared to open IE that i called a friend and ask him to google it for me thks once more

  148. MrSmily Says:
    October 18, 2007 at 7:08 pm

    super thx to u

  149. kathiravan Says:
    October 22, 2007 at 5:26 pm

    Thanks a lot…. I was puzzled for a while by the error and was quite worried about my whole system getting corrupt , quite relieved to see my system back to normal.

  150. mahipal Says:
    October 23, 2007 at 9:49 am

    I Dont hate Mozilla but use IE or Else i am unable to open fire fox browser pls help me

  151. sivakumar Says:
    October 23, 2007 at 6:26 pm

    Thankyou very much, after delete the contents inside the c:\heap41a folder Im able to open the Mozilla.

  152. na Says:
    October 24, 2007 at 7:15 am

    thank you very much for helping me…..

    have a nice day !!!!

  153. Na Says:
    October 24, 2007 at 7:27 am

    oh…
    do you know how to delete the virus from the USB ?
    thank you very much !

  154. Nitheesh Says:
    October 26, 2007 at 10:20 am

    very very thx dude

  155. Suresh Says:
    October 26, 2007 at 3:26 pm

    hi
    for me orkut is not opening….when i tryed to open it (it sayas orkut is banned u fool)

  156. hari Says:
    October 29, 2007 at 8:27 am

    this is the second time i got infected with this hell ….. last time it was cool i could get into the taskmanager and
    registry, this time i could nt …. it says “**** has being disabled by ur administrator” here who is the administrator other than me ……..

    but i could delete the registry and its contents

  157. anuprit Says:
    October 29, 2007 at 7:24 pm

    hey that was really good! it worked!
    Thanks a Lot!

  158. sriram Says:
    October 30, 2007 at 12:59 pm

    hello people .
    while solving this problem i couldn t get into registry when i typed regedit it has no response and my search option is also is not working in the system (it seems i have unknowingly dleted some file ). can any one help URGENT!!!!!!
    shree harsha help me soon

  159. Seo Expert Says:
    November 3, 2007 at 6:54 am

    This was really an excellent!!

  160. sampath Says:
    November 3, 2007 at 1:53 pm

    good work. keep it up

  161. Vidhya Says:
    November 3, 2007 at 5:15 pm

    This really solved my prob. First i thought it was a spyware. I got the same thing installed in my system and got it cleared too :)

  162. Psyco Says:
    November 7, 2007 at 1:52 pm

    Thanks a Lot dude.. Im from Brazil and this virus was in my MP4 Player!!!

  163. Mihir Says:
    November 8, 2007 at 1:47 pm

    Thanks man! Found this page through a google search, and it fixed my problem!

  164. Vikesh Says:
    November 11, 2007 at 4:28 am

    I deleted wht u suggested but i got tht thing again.. reallllly frustrating….helppppppppppppppppppp

  165. Vikesh Says:
    November 11, 2007 at 4:31 am

    I deleted wht u suggested but i got tht thing again.. reallllly frustrating….helppppppppppppppppppp

    i del it yesterday nyt n today i m gettin the same thing.. n now thr is no folder called c:\heap41a

  166. temp999 Says:
    November 13, 2007 at 11:21 am

    THXX ALOT

  167. Curexit96 Says:
    November 15, 2007 at 12:52 am

    Haii..i’ve try the solution and its best..
    but i think this virus have evolutions n keep coming up..
    i’ve checked svchost.exe under computer username..
    its still running even i stop it running and restart the computer..
    i try to find c:\heap41a again but its no there..
    plz..i need the source of this solution s.o.s!!!!

  168. Ashish Says:
    November 16, 2007 at 7:40 am

    For those who are still having problems with the hidden files. Check this link

    http://www.zooltechnology.com/content/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=300&Itemid=76

    To summarize - The virus updates the following entry in registry

    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ Explorer\Advanced\Folder\Hidden\SHOWALL “CheckedValue” = “00000000″

    Set this value to 1. This should sort out the problem of not being able to access hidden files.

  169. triumph Says:
    November 17, 2007 at 6:21 am

    Thanks a lot. I fixed the problem

  170. Rajagopal Says:
    November 22, 2007 at 7:20 pm

    Thanks a lot

    We do lot again the envy people.

    Kind regards
    Rajagopal J

  171. khasim Says:
    November 28, 2007 at 8:43 am

    ThanQ , My antivirus unable to find this, great work

  172. ravi Says:
    November 30, 2007 at 2:17 pm

    thank u very much,..
    thnx 4 the help..(great work done by posting it on the net)

  173. Sastry Says:
    December 1, 2007 at 6:42 pm

    Thank you..

  174. manish jaiswal Says:
    December 16, 2007 at 6:01 pm

    thank god finally google helped finding you who could help fixing the prob

  175. Jitendra Says:
    December 17, 2007 at 11:55 am

    Thanks a lot friend.

  176. chetan Says:
    December 28, 2007 at 6:50 pm

    Thanks…. solved the problem immediately. was so easy…thanx a lot. At first i thoughts; it’s a very serious problem.

  177. ABHISHEK Says:
    December 29, 2007 at 5:48 am

    Thanks, Issue is solved, but dont know why dont any AV able to catch it.

  178. manjusha Says:
    January 6, 2008 at 6:20 am

    the problem is, my administrator has deactivated both Task Manager and RegEdit..
    is there any antivirus that can solve this?

  179. Paul Says:
    January 6, 2008 at 12:43 pm

    Hmm, is this virus designed for any specific version of windows, or will it infect any of them? Because Vista doesn’t let anything run as admin without your permission first; would this stop it, or does it not need admin rights.
    The other thing is, if you formst your USB drive, surely this would get rid of the virus, otherwise it would be in the system files of your USB drive, meaning the drive is screwed…

    -To Paroma:
    Those 4KB of files, are most probably system files for the drive.

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  181. Zoheb Says:
    January 21, 2008 at 9:54 am

    Thank you! thank you! thank you!

  182. carnage-genocide Says:
    February 1, 2008 at 5:02 pm

    thanks for getting that hell out

  183. Chandima Says:
    February 8, 2008 at 5:09 am

    Thanks a lot. I could solve the problem..

    Thanks…

  184. Anji Says:
    February 18, 2008 at 5:32 am

    thanks dude…it helped me a lot. i thought it would be a big task to delete the virus…but u have shown a simple way to do this…thanks a lot..

  185. Yamini Says:
    February 19, 2008 at 11:36 am

    Information given is very helpful, Thankyou

  186. Yogesh Sonawane Says:
    February 20, 2008 at 1:09 pm

    Thanks for this simple solution for the removle of this virus.

  187. Ani Says:
    February 22, 2008 at 5:00 pm

    hey thanks a lot

  188. rahul Says:
    February 26, 2008 at 11:57 am

    it was amazing. i cant believe it……………i was screwed up by this virus. u r an amazing guy. hats off

  189. Priya Says:
    March 7, 2008 at 12:24 pm

    Its a very good thing that i removed the virus on my PC too..

    But here i do want add one more thing..

    If you are not able to change the permissions of hidden folder just go to command prompt and navigate to the place where the hidden folder exist and just key in

    attrib -s -r -h heap41a /s /d

    So that it will change the hidden folder to unhidden..

    It works. Try :)

  190. Anupam Ch Says:
    March 8, 2008 at 5:02 am

    Brilliant. Seriously did not expect and Indian run post to help me solve this.Impressed and proud :)

  191. Kishore Says:
    March 16, 2008 at 11:01 am

    Amazing. You made it look so simple. Thanks a lot.

  192. lpimmortal Says:
    March 20, 2008 at 10:42 pm

    ty so much ; ; You really helped me out a lot with your advice. ty ty ty

  193. Mukesh Yadav Says:
    March 21, 2008 at 3:37 pm

    Thanks a lot………..great advice

  194. Spurgeon Says:
    March 27, 2008 at 5:12 am

    Thanx guys for the effort even i had the same virus then found the info on this site…….and please send a mail to me regarding different Virus and to know more abt virus ….may b forum

  195. Prafull Says:
    March 27, 2008 at 6:53 am

    hiiiii,
    I deleted svchost.exe process from task manager but i m not getting heap41a file in C drive. I searched for heap41a file in hidden files through IE there also i m not getting this file.

    please help me in this regard….

  196. chethan Says:
    March 30, 2008 at 4:11 pm

    Thanks a lot Sir

    No Words for comment

    it was so simple that icant believe after deleting the virus
    once again thanks a lot

  197. riz Says:
    March 31, 2008 at 6:14 am

    u r an angel in disguise…thnx a lot

  198. Daniel Says:
    April 7, 2008 at 4:09 pm

    Hi, i was able to delete the contents of c:\heap41a, but i can’t find the path c:\heap41a by exploring C: (i already set Windows to show hidden files).
    Can anyone help?

  199. varun Says:
    April 13, 2008 at 4:08 am

    thanx a lot man!!!!!it really helped me in fixing up my problem

  200. feasta Says:
    April 17, 2008 at 10:54 am

    thanks man.. now i can surf internet using mozilla back… its really help.. thanks a lot..

  201. Raghavendra Thane Says:
    April 23, 2008 at 4:00 pm

    Dear shreeharshagp ,

    thanks a lot , the problem is fixed

  202. Saleel Says:
    May 2, 2008 at 7:44 am

    Hello all
    Here is another solution to get that virus never enter your pc

    First type c:\autorun.inf in the address bar.If a file come
    goto command prompt(start-run-and type “cmd” ;)
    then type ATTRIB c:\autorun.inf -s -r -h
    del c:\autorun.inf

    so it delete the virus,but the problem is it comes again when you restart,so we have have to create a empty autorun.inf and make it overwrite proof

    copy con c:\autorun.inf
    press Ctrl+z and ^Z appears on the screen,then press enter

    ATTRIB c:\autorun.inf +s +r +h

    So now we have made an empty autorun.inf and its a system file.So the virus cannot paste the autorun.inf,because already one one autorun.inf is there and its overwriteproof

    Now don’t restart and do the same for all drives including your flash disk or external hard disk which was connected during the problem.

    So that part is clear.
    Now goto cmd again and type

    ATTRIB c:\heap41a -s -r -h

    now goto task manager and there will be many process svchost.Out of that one will be under your username and all other be either network or system and it will have small memory ( 760 kb)
    End that process

    Now goto my computer-c:/
    and the folder heap41a will be visible .Just delete it

    Thats it

    Any doubt ask here -> enteensonline@gmail.com

    PS:I never use anti-viruses

  203. yuritos Says:
    May 6, 2008 at 7:15 am

    great. thx

  204. Matias Says:
    May 8, 2008 at 2:01 am

    Great work!!! Viruses sucks in the entire world. I’m writing from Patagonia Argentina, and I had the same problem. Thank you so much for helping me (sorry my basic english).

  205. marcones Says:
    May 9, 2008 at 3:52 am

    thanks a lot!!

  206. srinivas Says:
    May 10, 2008 at 4:05 pm

    thanks a ton man……..managed to fix it in a jiffy

  207. Dr.John MD Says:
    May 12, 2008 at 10:20 pm

    i used to get this virus from my USB pen drives. And i used to format my system since none of my antiviral programmes could find this out.
    i just one day browsed to know about this virus and got your help. Thanks a lot sir. Great Job. Bravo.

  208. Florian Says:
    May 19, 2008 at 6:16 am

    Thanks a lot mate.

    Florian

  209. Pravin Says:
    May 26, 2008 at 7:08 am

    Thanks for the information. It did help to solve this issue. Kudos to you ;)

  210. Leonardo B. Says:
    June 15, 2008 at 9:56 pm

    Thanks, solved many troubles in my school.

  211. Viswa Says:
    June 19, 2008 at 5:09 pm

    Hi,
    Thanks ya. It was really helpful.

    Regards
    Viswa

  212. steve Says:
    June 22, 2008 at 4:36 pm

    Thanks dude….

  213. Uday vardhane Says:
    July 4, 2008 at 9:25 am

    Hi,

    Thanks a lot dude for saving my dear PC.

    I need one more help will you tell me how to remove the virus from USB and how to detect a virus in our USB.

    Take care
    Uday

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