How do you remove vbs freelink from your computer when you can't find the rundll?

Answer 1

Go to C:\WINDOWS\system32\services and rename MSXMIDI.EXE and WMPLAYER.EXE to any extension of your choice....I use oxo.....re boot.....if you check the file sizes of these files they are both 28k. Delete them. You should then remove any reference to either file in the windows registry or use a program such as Reg Scrub XP to do it for you...You should now no longer have any further problems with FREELINK

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I've been battling with this virus on XP for two days on both mine and my sons computer. Because the virus appears to be getting on in years (1999) there doesn't appear to be much info and I,ve tried all the online virus scanning services and found them to be wanting. What really got me down is my own updated version of PCcillin did even catch it in the first place! I digress

First get an online complete system virus scan from Panda.This will fix possibly all infected files, but it wont fix the bridge.dll problem mentioned above. It will rename it and then when you reboot your system will annoy you by saying it cant find the specified .dll AND that (imy case) Trend PCcillin still tells me I have the VBS_FREELINK virus. Great.

Then I remembered my Tweak Regcleaner gets rid of useless .dll's Ran the program. It found the annoying .dll and I just told it to delete the lot.ReebootBINGONot freelink in sight. For the regcleaner go to the Tweak Now site and download the FREE regcleaner. That's all you need and its a cracking clean up utility anyway. Trust it and delete anything it finds including the "maybe unsafe to remove stuff."

Just a quick note to the above. It appears I was incorrect to say there was little info on this Trojan.

There is lots of help, but when running a search just type VBS Feelink in to your search engine and omit the "_" (under line bit)

You should end up with a lot more helpful web pages.

Try checking the Windows Add/Remove Programs list. You might find something that you can't specifically remember installing (perhaps a name like Bridge). Remove any software that doesn't belong there and restart.

This might be an alternative from all the other fixes that require you to search the registry...