JosephStalin
join:2002-08-08
Springfield, MA | reply to MystBlade
Re: sysupd.exe
Also, if you are a Windows Media Player user, you will have to re-install it after you get rid of this nasty trojan. |
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CalamityKen
join:2004-01-16
Pickering, ON |  reply to Michae K CCNP CCDP M
In WinXP Home the option to set file permissions is not present so how can this nasty be removed?
Other than booting the XP CD and using the Recovery Console is there an easier method to remove it? |
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MrMaster
What If
Premium
join:2000-12-16
Austin, TX
clubs: | Go into safemode. |
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CalamityKen
join:2004-01-16
Pickering, ON | Even in Safe Mode this thing keeps restarting according to the person I am helping. |
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Michael K CCNP CCDP
@speakeasy.n
| reply to JosephStalin
"JosephStalin" the user that made the post about Media Player was absolutely right. I have Media Player 6.4 and 7.1, 6.4 the default one that comes with Win2000 was unaffected, the 7.1 would not launch, but instead it executed sysupd.exe and made a copy of it in %systemroot%.
So follow my previous instructions, then reinstall Media Player. I did it, tested, and it works!
I don't know about WinXP and Media Player 9, someone please comment on that.
For the people that have XP or 2000 with FAT32 you can convert your file system to NTFS. This will allow you to have files larger then 4GB, give you file security, and it is overall a better file system. You will not however be able to read your hard drive from DOS/Win9X if you have multiple operating systems installed (most people don't)
To do this go to Start/Run type cmd and click OK
You should get a Command Prompt (Black window, DOS like)
Type "convert c: /fs:ntfs" without the quotes and hit enter, it might ask you to type volume label (I don't remember) if you don't know what it is click enter as it might be blank. It will fail if volume label is not correct, to find out you volume label type dir in the same window and hit enter you should get something like this
C:\>dir
Volume in drive C has no label.
Volume Serial Number is XXXX-XXXX
Directory of C:\
As you can see my drive has no label. After you type correct vloume label (if required) you'll get confirmation box answer yes and the system will start converting your file system. This might take some time, after this follow my previus instructions for removal and don't forget about Media Player.
I'd still like to find out how I got this thing, any comment are welcome. Thanks!
Michael K. (CCNP, CCDP, MCSE) |
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PonyFiveO
@pacbell.n
| I have tried for several hours to rid this thing but to no avail. Finally, I ran an un-updated older version of Spybot S&D. Sure enough, it found it and deleted it without any problems. Its been 2 days and it has not came back. For some reason the new updated version often comes back "CONGRATULATIONS NO SPYWARE FOUND" where as the old version will WILL find spyware even being run right after the new version. Wierd... |
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scarabaeus7
join:2004-05-25
Tallahassee, FL
|  reply to MystBlade
Re: sysupd.exe - Possible cause?
Well, this may be a stab in the dark, but Michael said to present ideas even if they are "guesses". I first noticed I was infected when 1) McAfee kept screaming at me while visitng some sites and 2) ad-aware came across the "FavoriteMan" hijacker app. I was trying to get rid of "FavoriteMan" (deleting it's dlls and supporting files) and it just kept coming back again and again.
I noticed that it's .dll (ATpartners.dll located in my system32 dir) was being modified once per minute. At that point, it lead me to believe that a service might be running in the bg. I started ending unknown processes with Task Manager. Once I killed "sysupd.exe", the .dll's modify date stopped changing. I went through and unregistered sysupd.exe, then deleted it from my WINNT directory and system registry along with another entry that kept appearing with it "lysbsu.exe".
I believe, the way that I got infected with FavoriteMan was from loose security permissions in my IE settings. I learned from a few web sites that "FavoriteMan" is an ActiveX "Helper" app that installs wile using IE (without prompting) while visitng some unscrupulous sites. The helper app installs in the background and is a Pain to get rid of. It also allows for the installation of other pests, possibly sysupd.exe. I have changed my security permissions to "prompt" before running ActiveX objects. Hopefully this will do the trick and keep this pest away. It might be a loose connection between the two, but since I've removed both parasites, I haven't had this problem since. Also, since there are MANY different versions of FavoriteMan removal varies.
Let me know if I'm even on the map with this, and if so, when you write your whitepaper for MS or Symantc please use the correct spelling. Thats 'AEUS' in scarabaeus... 
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Wonko The Sane
@suscom.net
| reply to Michae K CCNP CCDP M
Re: sysupd.exe
Ok, here's how I had to do it to remove this wretched piece of *#$%&, I'm running windows 2000 on these machines:
1)install spybot
2)reboot into safemode (press f8 at that little bar that goes across the window before the splash screen)
3)edit the registry, do a search for "sysupd", it'll likely be in /Hkey_local_machine/software/microsoft/windows/current_version/run/ Delete it.
4) close regedit, and press the restart key on the computer, to to a cold reboot. (if you don't have a reboot key, then hold down the power button for 10 seconds)
5) restart in safe mode again, and delete the file c:/winnt/sysupd.exe
6) run spybot/adaware again, and it'll remove some remaining parts of it.
7) restart normally.
Hope this helps!
~Wonko The Sane
ebeaar09@email.pct.edu |
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voevod365
@compaq.com
| reply to GerhardS
That previous batch file almost worked for me but after copying pskill to winnt directory I modified the batch file a littlebit.. run this a few times from cmd prompt and it will kill the process and then remove the file.
@echo off
pskill sysupd.exe
del sysupd.exe
echo.
echo.
echo Usage: RemoveSysUpd 35
echo.
echo Where 35 is the process ID of sysupd.exe. Open task manager and look
echo for the ID number and then restart this script.
echo.
echo Script requires DELTREE.EXE and PSKILL.EXE.
echo.
echo Copy this script, DELTREE.EXE and PSKILL.EXE into WINNT or WINDOWS
echo run the script from a command prompt. When it is done you should look in
echo task manager and see that sysupd.exe is not running. You may now delete
echo its entry from RUN in the registry.
echo.
echo HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
echo HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
echo.
echo DELTREE is part of MS-DOS 6 or Windows 9x. PSKILL is part of the PSTOOL
echo kit from www.sysinternals.com.
echo.
echo.
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jd0601
@66.28.x.x
| Hi! I experienced the same problem yesterday. It appeared that this program installed VX2.BetterInternet and other spy & adware (keenvalue, favoriteman, Euniverse,etc.) on my computer. Ad-aware 6 deleted the related files, but they kept coming back. It was really frustrating. I tried to stop the process in taskmanager, but sysupd.exe kept running again. This prevented me from deleting sysupd.exe in my c:/winnt directory.
To fix the problem, I created an empty sysupd.txt file in another directory and then renamed it to sysupd.exe. Then, I ended the sysupd.exe process in task manager and moved my new dummy sysupd.exe file into the c:/winnt directory (you need to see where this program is on your computer). I had to do this quickly, because my computer somehow kept starting sysupd.exe back up.
Once I made sure that sysupd.exe was no longer running, I also found that I had to delete this program from my startup programs. Since I am using winnt, I was able to download a freeware program called autoruns.exe that showed me what programs run on my computer at startup. I deleted sysupd.exe from this list. I found that it was necessary to stop the sysupd.exe process before removing it from my startup list; otherwise, it kept reappearing in my list of startup programs.
Maybe someone can suggest a better solution, but this one worked for me. Once you've solved this problem, run your spy/adware remover again for any applications that VX2 may have installed.
Good luck! There should be something illegal about this sort of thing. |
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sysfucker
@tisdip.tis
| reply to Michae K CCNP CCDP M
thank you folks.
i killed the file using Safe Mode/regedit/HighJackThis
so far it worked for me and my antivir no longer
displays the "small/tr.gs.2" trojan warning in the
atpartners.dll located at system32 folder under win2k.
jesus, fuck sysupd.exe ! |
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