Remove Decoy. Removal instructions

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Decoy is a worm that spreads via infected files. Once executed, the parasite silently installs itself to the system and drops copies of itself to all available hard drives and network shares. Decoy also replaces all Microsoft Word documents found in the system with infected executable files. The worm sets the Microsoft Word icon for all of its files. This is done in order to trick the user into opening harmful files. Decoy automatically runs on every Windows startup.

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

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Decoy manual removal:

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Kill processes:
dkernel.exe, iexplorer.exe

HELP:
how to kill malicious processes

Delete registry values:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\dkernel
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\iexplorer.exe
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\Shell\explorer.exe iexplorer.exe

HELP:
how to remove registry entries

Delete files:
dkernel.exe, iexplorer.exe

HELP:
how to remove harmful files

Delete directories:
C:\Windows\System\I75-D2
C:\Windows\System32\I75-D2
C:\Winnt\System32\I75-D2
Misc:
Exact file location:
iexplorer.exe - C:\Windows or C:\Winnt
dkernel.exe - C:\Windows\System\I75-D2, C:\Windows\System32\I75-D2 or C:\Winnt\System32\I75-D2

Information added: 2006-01-14 08:15:23
Information updated: 2006-01-14 08:15:23

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