Remove Besam. Description and removal instructions

Title: Besam
Type: Worms	Severity scale: (68 / 100)

Besam is a dangerous worm that spreads through floppy disks. Once executed, the parasite installs itself to the system and overwrites the autoexec.bat file, which is an essential part of the system, with a particular batch script that deletes all content of several hard disk volumes. Besam automatically runs on every Windows startup.

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Besam properties:
• Hides from the user
• Stays resident in background

Automatic Besam removal:

remover for Besam

Besam manual removal:

Kill processes:
besame[X].exe, setv.com

HELP:
how to kill malicious processes

Delete registry values:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\_setv
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\SetVxD\servs

HELP:
how to remove registry entries

Delete files:
besame[X].exe, setv.com

HELP:
how to remove harmful files

Misc:
[X] is a set of four blank space characters.

The parasite spreads by copying the besame[X].exe file on floppy disks.

The setv.com file can be found in the main system directory C:\Windows or C:\Winnt.

Other programs to remove Besam:

• SUPERAntiSpyware - Review - Download
• CounterSpy - Review - Download
• Windows Defender - Review - Download

Information added: 05/10/05
Information updated: 05/10/05

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