I don’t know why people are so scared of virus. It’s nothing but few lines of codes and if you are cautious, you’ll hardly get a virus in your PC. A lot of my friends were bothered by some “Sujin Virus”. The title and homepage of Internet Explore was changed to ‘sujin.com.np’ and in their flash drives also they had a file named Virusremoval.vbs. So, they were pretty much sure that it was a virus trying to spread through the flash drive. I kind of searched over the internet and also sneaked the code in the VBS file (opened it in a notepad). Finally, I could conclude that this virus was a phony which does nothing big except modifying some registry keys. Still, if you’re annoyed by the virus and want it out of your PC you can just download a scanner from http://www.swiftnepal.net and run a scan. If you want to be smart and remove it manually by yourself, then try out these simple steps:

  1. From the start menu click ‘Run’ -> type ‘Regedit’ (Registry Editor will open)
  2. In the Registry Editor, go to Edit menu and press find
  3. In the find dialog box type - virusremoval.vbs and press find next button
  4. The search will end at some folder in the registry at the key - “userint”; doubleclick it; you will find many paths separated by commas - eg: c:windows/system32/userinit.exe,c:/windo… and so on. Among those paths you will find “C:\windows\system32\virusremoval.vbs”. Delete the path. Ensure that remaining paths are unaltered so that your genuine scripts are not affected.
  5. Press F3 (find next) to see if the same path exists somewhere else in your registry. If found again at some other place remove the path there also.
  6. Repeat F3 until you get a message that search has finished.
  7. Change your home page to your usual one. You will notice that though your home page has stopped from changing back to ‘sujin.com.np’, still your title bar is showing ‘sujin.com.np’.
  8. To change this back to normal, first change your homepage, and again open the ‘Registry Editor’ and press find in edit menu and type ‘sujin.com.np’ without quotes. You will find the key - “Window Title”. Double click the key and type “Windows Internet Explorer” or any other text you would like to have in the title bar. Please note that you have to change the key at two places. Press find next f3 till you receive the message that search has finished to ensure that you have changed at both the places.

Happy hunting Sujin!!!