Potential Threat

My anti-virus/spyware keeps picking up what it calls a potential threat which is PE_POLIP.A. It won't remove it. Anyone familiar with this? What is it? I seek divine wisdom.

 

It's pretty new according to Trend http://www.trendmicro.com/vinfo/virusencyclo/default5.asp?VName=PE_POLIP.A&VSect=T

If your AV doesn't remove it you could try their online scan here http://housecall.trendmicro.com/

Hope it helps.

 

I just realized I put this in the wrong place, sorry. Thanks for the info, I'll give it try.

 

House call isnt working for me, anything else that will remove this?

 

What protection do you have on your system?

Try running cleanups with updated versions of (if you havent already of course)
Ccleaner
Ad-Aware
Spybot Search & Destroy
AVG
Ewido Security Suite

If it still can't be removed then try rebooting into safe mode and scanning there instead.

 

Virus wins. I've tried everything. Adaware, spybot,Vcom fix it utilities, SafeMode.

 

This thing has attached itself to every .exe file on my computer and it's not going anywhere no matter what I do. I'm looking at a complete win reinstall to get rid of this thing.

 

Polip is extremely difficult to remove (morphing virus) and in most cases the only result is formatting

 

May not work, but mcafee have a version of stinger that supposedly gets rid of it http://vil.nai.com/vil/averttools.aspx#stinger

Trend, Symantec and Mcafee all say update and run a scan, but that rarely works when you have an infection in my experience.

Give stinger a go and fingers crossed.

 

Thanks DMW, Stinger seemed to remove it. I'm keeping fingers crossed anyway.

 

Glad it helped, let's hope it's gone for good eh?

 

Lancer68, where do you think you picked up that virus? so we know where to steer clear from lol

 

I got it from an infected torrent file.