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"Worrying Virus-Like Problem."

Anyone any good at viruses?

I think I have a strange one, it doens't seem to match the description of other famous viruses but it definitely seem to be some sort of virus.

The problem is, every time I open certain programs, they immediately shut down. This even includes ctrl-alt-delete as as soon as I press them, the window pops up for about half a second before disappearing, before I have the chance to click the processes tab, so I can't get rid of it.

It also seems to be really affecting the speed of my computer, games have been grinding through instead of whizzing through like they used to.

It also is incredibly annoying as it bypassed Norton anti-virus, (another program affected by the half-second-close) and other antivirus programs as well.

Any ideas?

Ok, I seem to have suddenly become inundated with viruses. I reinstalled Norton, (the free one didnt download) I doubleclicked it, it closed after a few seconds. I did it again, this time with the Ctrl-Alt-Del window open and I noticed the program cvcd.exe suddenly taking up 67%of the memory usage at exactly the moment when Norton shut down.

Another one!

I tried to delete it conventionally , didn't work.
I tried to delete it manually through DOS, didn't work.
I tried to delete it using EndItAll, didn't work.

Any suggestions?

Oh my god!

This is just annoying now.

It seems to restore itself into my Windows system32 folder, I have no idea what to do. I'll try and download this free virus checker and see if it fares any better.

www.zonealarm.com - Free firewall
www.grisoft.com - Free virus checker.

Even though Norton was affected I still think it to be one of the best programs around. As long as Automatic live update is enabled and Auto-protect is active in most cases it should be fine.

Does anyone else know of something better to use?

the borg

Ok, excellent. I managed to delete it using EndItAll (what a useful little program that is!) and I need your advice.

To prevent this happening again, should I buy a new antivirus program that actually works (I don't like the way the first virus managed to delete Norton before Norton detected it) or should I download a Firewall?

OK, iamsad.exe is gone.

I had another one as well though!

It's the spool one on the list, and basically stops windows opening. I could do Ctrl-Alt-Dlt though and ended it's process, and all of a sudden Windows opened.

Oh no! I can't delete it! Even through dos, it says "Access is Denied"!

What do I do?

All the files look fine to me lsass.exe and smss.exe are used by a lot of viruses but are also windows files. A quick scan of them should pick up anything.

the borg

I got norton security suite 2004 (antivirus, firewall, spam and parental control) with a one year update subscription for £20.

That MsPMSPSv.exe is a Windows Media Player 7 process, Don't worry about that.

The IAmSad thing is a virus apparently.

Taken from another forum: -

"Hello all, I am new here only by the mere fact that I, too, have been hit by the Iamsad.exe virus. Two things alerted me to this.
1. my antivirus warned me a file I downloaded using Kazaa Lite is infected (and kept warning me until I ran the antivirus to clean my whole hard drive), and
2. Zone Alarm asked me if I wanted to grant Internet and Server access to iamsad.exe.

I ran the antivirus, and it "healed" the virus. Zone Alarm cranked down on it. I know what you mean about this pesky beast. Zone Alarm saved me because it tried over two hundred times to get Internet access in less than a minute. I can only imagine what it did with you, Beamer.

You can either get an eval copy of Zone Alarm and then pay for it if you like it, or, since you know of Kaaza, you may have other options. I use AVG Anti-Virus. It's free, but it does a good job of protecting me. I recommend both products to anyone with high-speed Internet. I am sorry you had to restore your system and lose some files. As something to keep in mind for the future, burn your files to CD. You machine may crash for any cause, and there is no reason you should risk losing your files.

Good Luck....Eric"

So basically, get AVG antivirus from grisoft.com and delete the virus.

Firstly though, Go to Start -> Run -> Type msconfig and go to the startup tab, if theres a "IAmSad.exe" box ticked there, untick it and reboot this should prevent it from loading when you start your machine.

OK, IAmSad.exe gone, but I still am having the same original problem.

These are the programs on the processes list that might be interfering with the computer.

taskmgr.exe
MsPMSPSv.exe (eh? sounds dodgy)
svchost.exe
explorer.exe
spoolsv.exe
CTSVCCDA.EXE
CDANTSRV.EXE
svchost.exe
svchost.exe
ati2evxx.exe
svchost.exe
svchost.exe
lsass.exe
services.exe
winlogon.exe
csrss.exe
smss.exe
cvcd.exe
IAmSad.exe(gone, I'm taking this list from a print screen from last night)
wkcalrem.exe
p2p.exe
nlsboard.exe
rundll32.exe
wcmdmgr.exe
realsched.exe
SysTrayFind.exe
svchosts.exe
MsgPlus.exe
htpatch.exe
atiptaxx.exe
System
System Idle Process