W32/Dabyrev-A

Category: Viruses and Spyware
Type: Win32 executable file virus
Prevalence: Small Number of Reports

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Aliases

  • p2p-worm.win32.mareta
  • w32/dabyrev

Characteristics

  • Installs itself in the registry

Affected Operating Systems

Windows

Recovery Instructions:

Please follow the instructions for disinfecting pe viruses.

It is possible to manually disinfect a system by:

- terminating all infected processes,
- replacing any infected executables with clean backups,
- deleting the hidden system file C:\MSprotect.exe
- and deleting its start key from the registry.
- any other hidden system executables of file size 43008 bytes detected as W32/Dabyrev-A are redundant copies of the virus. These can, and should, be deleted.

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