worm.nachi.b I've got it....

[DemonKnight]

AVG detected it, but couldent get rid of it, the sites I've found it seem to make it out as a non desctuctive worm that actaully tries to help by deleteing other worms. What should I do?

Windos XP Pro is my OS I just reinstalled and havent had a chance to update any thing.

[bailey]

this should fix your problem
http://www.trendmicro.com/vinfo/viru...e=WORM_NACHI.B

good luck

[rastorize]

A good worm?!

Although it may be doing some good things such as downloading the patches from Msft (which should've already been done - you should always keep your system patched as soon as Msft makes the patches available)...but it's considered 'malware' and it has backdoor capabilities...which is never a good thing.

It listens to random ports and sends SYN packets to various locations in order to notify those locations that a specific port in the system is already open. When the remote location receives this information, the said remote location may already connect to the infected system. This makes the system vulnerable to malicious attack.

This might help in its removal...and here.

[originel]

Nachi is an interesting worm. It's the same as the blaster worm (based on it in fact) except that it deletes any other RPC fault worms in the process. it still uses significant amount of bandwidth though. btw update windows ASAP, this problem was fixed many security patches ago.

I've gotten it a few times when reinstalling windows but AVG was able to delete it for me. i guess it got into your system volume information folder, those can be a pain to remove but can be done with AVG by turning off system restore and rebooting

[DemonKnight]

I rescanned with AVG and it was able to move the virus. I will start the update process now. I've got SP1a on a CD so I dont have to DL that monster again. (I'm on dial up mind you.) after that I'll see what windows update throws at me.