shaker
@qwest.net | reply to bcastner
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- "Do not leave warm thoughts to the cooling influences of the world" -unknown
Thanks for the help! It worked perfectly! |
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Rick G
@comcast.net | reply to bcastner
 Thank you ... Thank you ... Thank you. This worked when nothing else did. |
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bgclm
@telecomitalia.it | reply to bcastner
I LOVE YOU!!! this was so easy!!! |
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Heather71
join:2008-03-10
Dover, DE |  reply to bcastner
Bill! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! After many other attempts to remove the annoyance, your suggestion worked! |
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Chuckv
@verizon.net | reply to HOLLY3RN
Follow the instructions at the beginning of this post and you can't go wrong. |
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Chuckv
@verizon.net | reply to bcastner
This worked fine for me. Thank you very much!!!!! |
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bcastner
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If the fixes posted earlier in this thread are too difficult, and there is no shame in admitting this, then call the Tech Support department of your Antivirus vendor to start with. They very likely are very aware of this virus and have some sort of easier remedy available for you.
The two "fixes" in this thread, only one of which need be done, are:
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AB
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join:2006-04-04
Leesburg, VA
| reply to HOLLY3RN
said by HOLLY3RN :
HI,
I AM SO LOST, MY COMPUTER HAS THIS MONARONADONA VIRUS, i THOUGHT I CLEANED IT OFF WITH MY AVG, BUT I DONT UNDERSTAND HOW TO GET THE MONA DONA RONA OFF OF MY HEADER AT THE TOP OF MY SCREEN, I TRIED TO READ ONE OF THE SITES YOU POSTED, BUT I AM LOST AND AM AFRAID I WILL REALLY SCREW UP MY COMPUTER, COULD YOU SUGGEST AN EASIER SITE FOR COMPUTER DUMMIES. THANKS HOLLY One option would be to download and install Spywareblaster.
There's an option within that app to change IE's title bar, among other things.
An added benefit would be the additional anti-spyware protection that it offers.
»javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html
Though it's not going to remove any current or left-over MonaRonaDona crapola on your machine, beyond allowing you to make that one change. |
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HOLLY3RN
@verizon.net
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HI,
I AM SO LOST, MY COMPUTER HAS THIS MONARONADONA VIRUS, i THOUGHT I CLEANED IT OFF WITH MY AVG, BUT I DONT UNDERSTAND HOW TO GET THE MONA DONA RONA OFF OF MY HEADER AT THE TOP OF MY SCREEN, I TRIED TO READ ONE OF THE SITES YOU POSTED, BUT I AM LOST AND AM AFRAID I WILL REALLY SCREW UP MY COMPUTER, COULD YOU SUGGEST AN EASIER SITE FOR COMPUTER DUMMIES. THANKS HOLLY |
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bcastner
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| reply to creendar
The only issue the batch scripting solution might have is that it was unable to find Tsklist in the path.
If you have issues with the first fix, then use the second. It has everything needed to remove the virus:
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creendar
@bellsouth.net | reply to bcastner
This works fine until I reboot and then it's back |
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un4tune82
@wanadoo.fr | reply to bcastner
happy as a lark!!! thanks for the clear instructions. worked like a charm. |
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Janinka
@rogers.com
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Thank you very much for your very good tip how to delete
MonaRonaDona ugly virus. Its box was on my screen for 2 days and I was trying for many hours a day to delete it. But only your help was excellent. Thank you very much!  And yes, I was using Registryfix2008 the night before that virus appeared on my screen. So that was the way I got it....And by the way I was able to do just the first part, the second part with moving and cleaning did not work. But the virus was cleaned anyway with HijackThis. Thank you again. |
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Duckie
@aol.com | reply to bcastner
Cheers Bill you helped me get rid of mona for good i hope! Thanks mate |
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diverphd
@com.mx | reply to bcastner
thank you soooo much.. tried other resolutions and only yours worked.. where was norton and mcaffee? they did not have it even listed.. thaks again.. |
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classical62
join:2008-03-03
Vacaville, CA
| reply to AB
said by AB  :All Hail bcastner , All Hail! Hopefully, this thread and this experience will cause a bit of a light bulb to come on for some of the less computer-literate. I'll double that "hail" and raise you a three cheers!
AB~ I agree with you on this actually "easy" lesson that was learned..I think my light bulb was having a bit of an electrical connection and that's why I did a dumb thing and downloaded that *^&$ virus...I KNOW better than to open email I don't recognize as well as be mindful of what I download...funny thing is I was scolding myself for not listening to my intuitin the other day and then I went ahead and didn't listen and got a pain the the *** for my troubles.
Thank you all again for your time and I will behave myself from now on |
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AB
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join:2006-04-04
Leesburg, VA
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True enough. Though I'm not sure I see much of a connection to a song in Spanish by an Hispanic composer, other than in possible sentiment-- but similar sentiments have no doubt been expressed in song, film, and writings in many different languages.
But-- it's a mere point of trivia anyway, regardless of what it may refer to, and I suspect those victimized by MonaRonaDona are not overly concerned with what the malware writer may have been thinking whilst composing his piece of . . . 'art'. 
Either that or "Mona" by Bo Diddley, I suppose, eh?
Or "Mona Mona" by Peter Cetera? Maybe "Mona Lisa" by Nat King Cole? |
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Name Game
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join:2002-07-07
North Myrtle Beach, SC
| reply to bcastner
I have that RemoveMonaRonaDona.exe2856KB and the .rar in a folder..Internal name: FixMalware.exe Version 1.0.0.1 since 2/29...will they be updating it soon?
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Name Game
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join:2002-07-07
North Myrtle Beach, SC
| reply to AB
Well AB this be the message..
»images.kaspersky.com/en/vlweblog/mona_1.png
And Mona does not live in Pakistan..so it must have been
Larry Williams.
»www.msu.edu/~buchan44/boney.html
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bcastner
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Thank you.
I too found the "Sherlock Holmes" speculation by ThreatFire a bit over the top. But some of the other evidence is fairly strong as to some of the origin of this pest.
The clues of importance are that there is a great deal of commanality in the code for MonaRonaDona, Uni-Gray Antivirus, RegistryCleaner2008; and even odder or perhaps scarier, in a free remover offered at least twice in this thread and posted widely over the Internet for MonaRonaDonaRemover.exe or its packed RAR version.
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