Disappearing or Closing Task Manager from AIM Virus/Trojan/Worm

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If your task manager automatically closes itself, you have a worm. Here’s how to regain control of your system. This bug is typically known as the Best Friends / Away Message virus.


One of our new members, Mickey Mouse, has been trying to help some visitors clear their system of the Best Friends / Away Message AIM virus. Some versions of this virus will automatically close the task manager. If you can’t kill the bug with the task manager, then you can’t clean your system.

(If pressing CTRL+ALT+DEL only causes your task manager to show for a brief second, then you have this problem.)

This freeware program will allow you to kill you malware process in question:

After you download and install this program, use it instead of taskmanager to follow the directions in Mickey’s original recipe:

 

4 Comments -


  1. kangkong said on November 20, 2008

    if you want to access the task manager without using any of this download able software
    which is very complicated. use a “write protect usb flash drive 1gb or any”. close every thing, set the usb in a write protect mode, insert the usb. wait for a moment ( if theres a pop up auto run pls select cancel. and then press control+alt+del. you can now view the task manager.

    note: when killing task or deleting viruses inside the task manager always end task the explorer before killing the virus exe program. if all the task of the virus are ended you can now go back to the explorer just go to “file, new task, type, explorer, then enter” hope this will work by kangkong.

  2. Jan Ray said on November 25, 2008

    http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/procexp.shtml this link doesn’t appear ….

    please help me….

  3. Anonymous said on December 11, 2009

    Virus ho closes task manager, regedit and others comand programs , that can disable that virus, delete or end procese, its verry funny, becose none antivirus can cotrol whit that when virus is on procese. First you must close that procese. in my case, that procese calss hjss.exe . you can close it whit task manager, but you must be quick, very quick. Pres ctrl + alt + esc (task manager will apear about 1second then close. You mus have some knowledge about proceses. Firs try end procese explorer.exe , then loock what left. Lock for procese in users name , it will be not system, local server, network service. Virus takes about 5-10 MB for procese. Try disable all procese that you dont know. After succsefuly disable you will see, that task manager not auto closing anymore, so you find the virus procese. Then you must disable auto proceses, you need ccleaner , try find in torrent whit serial. Find program USB disc secure, that to deleting auto proceses, and searching for virus such as autorun.inf , it will protect your flash driver. After deleting autoruns, i sugest to instal new AVG , its free. It will find lots of virus, calls kfadsojfjfhadbjof.exe or like that. Virus calss hjss.exe it will be in windows temp files folder. Manuali you not find it. After scaning with avg , see whit ccleaner and usb disc secure that it none autoruns procese, and finaly restart pc for testing, after restart, try ctrl + alt + del . Regedit will be turned off, so lock in interenet for enabling :)

    God luck – make funn ;)

    one more thing, that works in windows xp and vista, on win 7 i dont try

  4. Stephan_kuijs said on January 16, 2011

    My pc is too fast in closing the taskmanager, it closes so fast it appears for like 2 milliseconds(i recorded it with camtasia and slowed it down to 1% speed) it was visible for 2,1 milliseconds so it doesnt work for me

 

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