W32/Mofei-A and W32/Mofei-E disinfection instructions
Resolve is the name for a set of small, downloadable Sophos utilities designed to remove and undo the changes made by certain viruses, Trojans and worms. They terminate any virus processes and reset any registry keys that the virus changed. Existing infections can be cleaned up quickly and easily, both on individual workstations and over networks with large numbers of computers.
Windows 95/98/Me and Windows NT/2000/XP/2003
W32/Mofei-A and W32/Mofei-E can be removed from Windows 95/98/Me and Windows NT/2000/XP/2003 computers automatically with the following Resolve tools.
Note: When disinfecting variants not listed above, use the recovery instructions in the appropriate virus analysis.
Windows disinfector
MOFEIGUI is a disinfector for standalone Windows computers
- open MOFEIGUI
- run it
- then click GO.
If you are disinfecting several computers, download it, save it to floppy disk and run it from there.
After disinfection reboot the computer. After rebooting delete the file Scardsvr32.dll from the System folder, if present. Search for it using Windows.
Command line disinfector
MOFEISFX.EXE is a self-extracting archive containing MOFEICLI, a Resolve command line disinfector for use on Windows networks. Read the notes enclosed in the self-extractor for details on running this program.
After disinfection reboot the computer. After rebooting delete the file Scardsvr32.dll from the System folder, if present. Search for it using Windows.
Other platforms
To remove W32/Mofei-A or W32/Mofei-E on other platforms please follow the instructions for removing worms.
