motatuwo.dll

gentleman · Mar 25, 2009

I got some form of the vundo virus/malware on my computer today. It was my work computer, so I would assume fairly heavily protected, as I work for a pretty big company. Whatever I had was causing my computer to run normal for about 30 minutes, and then I was getting an error that basically gave me a 1 minute countdown before my PC rebooted.

After reboot, the same thing would happen. I ran my TrendMicro virus scan and it cleaned a few things, but after 30 minutes or so, the same thing happened again.

I then purchased Stopzilla and ran that. It cleaned some 70 or so files, and is not detecting anything at the current time. The last things that appear to be stuck are something called Agent.HRO and something called motatuwo.dll. The Agent.HRO has been removed a few times by Stopzilla, followed by a clean scan, but then might get caught again on the next scan.

I am by no means an expert, but I think the main problem is the motatuwo.dll. Every time I try to open a program, be it Excel, Firefox, Outlook, etc.... I get a message saying:

"The application or DLL C:\WINNT\system32\motatuwo.dll is not a valid Windows image. Please check this agent against your installation diskette."

Does anybody have any advice for me on how to get rid of this file?

Can I just delete the file permanently without harming the PC?

Might my problem be something else completely?

Kestrel13! · Mar 29, 2009

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