Is There A New Version Of flec006.exe as I cannot do anything advised

Greetings I have some new questions and problems with getting rid of the flec006.exe. I have gone over the READ & RUN me step by step, till when you have to run CCleaner, it will just not engage, nothing happens.

I have disconnected the infected PC from the Internet as IE took forever to load, my Internet speed was throttled, I could use Firefox and went to Housecall but even that did not work. I could not do a live scan via F-Secure either.

Norton was killed, I cannot do a system restore, I cannot boot into safe mode (even after adding a recommended registry entry in another thread), I cannot view my hidden files and folders and going to the registry does not help me as the SHOWALL folder is missing in the following key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\
Advanced\Folder\Hidden\SHOWALL

I cannot run combofix.exe as it states that it is not a valid win32 application, I cannot run or manually update Super Anti Spyware is as my local files have disappeared under documents and settings where you have to extract the manual updates for Super Antispyware that is here: (For Windows 2000/XP/2003/Media Center the folder is typically located here:
C:\Documents and Settings\<USERNAME>\Application Data\SUPERAntiSpyware.com\SUPERAntiSpyware), the PC just reboots itself if you try run the scan or ANY other spyware program. I connected the PC to the net to try and do the updates and that did not work either and quickly unplugged it again.

I have followed many threads on this forum but none of them are helping me as none of the suggested methods and tools do not work on my system. It seems as if the flec006 owner has updated this virus and as I said, none of the suggested removal tools will operate on my system.

I do not know what to do or where to start. I have been searching the net for hours now and getting nowhere. I am really stumped, does anyone out there have any new advice for me apart from killing my teenage son?!?!?!

Any help/advice will be appreciated = = = thank you so much!!

 

Oh and by the way, I do not mind formatting my drive, but I have a MAJOR problem, I need to save my raw email (Outlook Express) filed which are in documents and settings (user) local settings, application data etc, but that has been hidden/disabled by the virus (flec006.exe)

If only I could get those files I do not mind formatting, I will save all my files to another PC, via the network, would this PC get infected too? Then format my drive, install my antispyware and virus protections etc and then copy my data back or is that a bad idea? I do not know of any other, but I can only format if I can get into my application data and well I cannot!! This is really a bad bad virus.

 

Hi There Chaslang

Thanks so much for responding, but I must let you know how I managed to sort it out, it was a mission though, everything is back to normal but I am going to format anyway, this is one hectic attack let me tell you.

What I did was i had to by a month sub to PREVXCSI for $15.95 which was money well worth spending and here is the link if anyone wants it:

http://www.prevx.com/filenames/1659043503788551641-0/PREVXCSI.RAR.html

THAT is what managed to start the clean up process, killing the files that were now "invisible" as the virus hid all the folders where it was operating from. I followed the instructions that they tell you while scanning. I had turned off system restore as well.

I then managed to un-install Norton and Zone Alarm and re-install them, did reboots and updated. I had to run prevxcsi a couple of times during this whole process it was not just one east step let me tell you.

I also ran combo-fix which killed A MILLION things. Combo fix managed to bring everything back to life in the registry, I could once again see the hidden files and folders and the content of my local settings application data etc.

I downloaded a trial version of Kapersky Anti Virus and everything came up clear. Does anyone have an opinion on the best anti virus software??

I hope this helps someone else out there who is having the same problem.

Regards

Barry

 

Hi Chaslang

Sorry about the late reply but what I did was that I had formatted my drive and I no longer have the reports. I had to pay for Prevx CSI to remove the bad elements.

I am all set and fresh now with a clean system!!

Take care

Regards

Barry

 

Well the scan is free, but if it finds malicious elements you have to pay for them to be removed. Well I formatted because that is just the way I am, I really do not trust all the software out there, so I just wanted to make doubly sure and I kind of like a fresh start and perhaps I am a bit compulsive obsessive I suppose, it is just like doing a spring clean I suppose. Maybe it was not necessary but I preferred a format. Took me a week to get back up and running like I want though.

 

Well if only I knew, I am inexperienced at this as I do not usually get a virus as I do not do dodgy things, but I was desperate and you learn by your mistakes. But at the time I must say that if it was not for PrevxCSI I would not have been able to access my local settings/application data/identities to save my emails. It is a lesson well learnt and my teenage son is now banned from my PC, I will buy him his own so do any dodgy things the little sh*t.:-D