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.
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.
ad-aware & spybot are not anti-virus programs but anti-spyware programs, 2 different things. check this link. http://www.trendmicro.com/vinfo/virusencyclo/default5.asp?VName=PE_POLIP.A
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.
had that happen with a customer twice. end result was complete blowout of drive & reinstall of all programs.
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.
