How to get rid of WinVNC?

William Hooper whooper@freeshell.org
Mon Sep 1 18:44:00 2003


Lynn Schwab said:
> Somehow WinVNC got installed on my Win2K machine without my knowledge or
> permission.  I've tried to delete all remants of it of VNC from the
> registry
> and file system, including renaming the VNCHooks.dll file, but I still get
> an
> error message each time I start my computer that says "explorer.exe -
> Unable
> to locate DLL - VNCHooks.dll" from the path.
>
> How do I get rid of this error message once and for all?

You have been infected with a backdoor:
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/backdoor.dvldr.html

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William Hooper