Thank you very much. I will follow the suggestions in the link.
>I like Norton and thought they might have a tool. I searched Symantec's site for "BackDoor-AXJ". I didn't get a tool, but I got this link.
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http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/backdoor.berbew.html>
>For Norton you have to update the virus signitures in safe mode (They tell you how)
>And, you have to delete a registry key too - and they show you how.
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>Most the time, once the damage is done, you have to do some things manually.
>HTH
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>>I have been hit by this virus today. I have up-to-date McAfee Anti-Virus program but it does not seem to be able to get rid of it.
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>>I get the following windows/messages from McAfee:
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>>Detected file name:
>>C:\Docume....\Name\Local...\Temp\"some random file name".htm
>>Virus name: BackDoor-AXJ.htm.
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>>The detected file cannot be cleaned.
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>>When I choose to Quarantine the file I get message that the file cannot be moved. The .htm files seem to be of random names. And when I go to the \TEMP folder I can't find these files (I tried hidden, systems, etc).
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>>The symptom of this problem, so far, seems to be that my home page in IE gets always set to "about:blank".
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>>Any suggestions to how to get rid of this virus?
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>>Thank you.
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