How To Remove The Skype Worm

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There’s a nasty worm burrowing it’s way around Skype. The w32/Ramex.A virus virus sends a message to other skype users containing a picture, which if clicked on will infect the recipients machine, where the virus is sent again.

If you’re running a good AV system then you should be protected. If not, then here’s a way to remove the worm manually:

It is however also possible to remove the worm manually by following the steps outlined below:

1. Restart the PC in safe mode
2. Run regedit
3. Go to HKLM/software/microsoft/windows/currentversion/runonce find entry with mshtmldat32.exe. Delete this entry
4. Go to Windows\System32 directory and delete following files: wndrivs32.exe, mshtmldat32.exe, winlgcvers.exe, sdrivew32.exe
5. Go to windows/system32/drivers/etc
6. Find file hosts
7. Open it with notepad, ctrl+a and delete all entries (this will resume your antivirus updates), save, close.
8. Restart the PC.

Thanks to the Skype blog for the fix.

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