JS/Psyme virus

[Voetsjoeba]

Hello everybody,

Today I decided to get rid of some spyware. So I ran Ad-Aware, and it found 63 spyware files. Ok, no problem, but one of them reported a possible virus infection in some "shell open" command in the registry.

So I ran AVG 6.0 Free Edition, and indeed it found a virus, called JS/Psyme. I can't seem to find any info about this one. And I know AVG 6.0 is good at detecting viruses, but not removing them, so I doubt it'll be able to get rid of it (it's still scanning now).

Can anyone provide some info about this virus ? And maybe some instructions on how to remove it ... thanks :)

[Jubba]

The november 14th update of AVG should be able to get rid of it, but I don't know how that would work since you have the free version....

[Phat7]

Check this stuff:
http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/trojpsymeb.html
http://vil.nai.com/vil/content/v_100749.htm
http://us.mcafee.com/virusInfo/default.asp?id=description&virus_k=100749

[Voetsjoeba]

Thanks guys :) The virus was in the temporary internet files, so nothing to worry about :)