How to Remove TOEUW.

EXE Virus/Malware

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September 3, 2010 TOEUW.EXE is a malware which has the the following actions: Writes to another Process Virtual Memory (Process Hijacking) Executes a Process This process creates other processes in your system.

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Added as a Registry auto start to load Program on Boot up Created as a process in your system Executed as a Process TOEUW.EXE has the following brother program file: TOEUW.SCR 43553497.SCR 87263564.EXE How to remove TOEUW.EXE How to delete TOEUW.EXE 1. Kill the Toeuw.exe process on the Processes 2. Then download Combofix: http://download.bleepingcomputer.com /sUBs/ComboFix.exe 3. Create a folder in C: drive called Combo and save the ComboFix.exe to that folder. 4. Close all other browser windows. Important: Temporarily disable your anti-virus, real-time protection before performing a scan. They can interfere with combofix or remove some of its embedded files which may cause unpredictable results. 5. Go to start -> Run -> Type cmd(Without quotes) and click OK. 6. Type cd\ and Enter 7. Type cd Combo and enter. 8. Type ComboFix /snapshot then enter. It will run Combofix Please note, that once you start combofix you should not click anywhere on the combofix window as it can cause the program to stall. In fact, when combofix is running, do not touch your computer at all and just take a break as it may take a while for it to complete. Dont forget to restart the system once the process is completed. When finished, it will produce a logfile located at C:\combofix.txt with the files
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removed. If you are facing any problem to follow the steps ask me in the comments. I will reply you as soon as I can. __ NB: TOEUW.EXE Malware sometimes create a process which changes your external drives folder icons to shortcuts and hide the folders. To bring back the folders to external drive, follow the link Files on External/Flash Drive Changed to Shortcuts Virus

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1 yogesh November 13, 2010 at 5:00 pm In my computer the virus was not TOEUW.EXE but it was koapee.exe but it worked for that also. Thanks Reply

2 Jose Tinto November 14, 2010 at 12:09 am Good to hear that it worked for Koapee.exe also. ComboFix is effective in all such kind of malwares. Reply

3 rachelle November 14, 2010 at 11:51 am i did this, and my desktop wallpaper became all black after i restarted it, what could be the possible cause? btw, i cant change it. thanks for the help! Reply

4 victor November 26, 2010 at 6:01 am hi there combofix worked great on my windows vista 32bit, but im also infected on avista 64 bits, what do i have to do to get a version of combofix that works with vista 64bits Reply

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5 Jose Tinto November 30, 2010 at 4:18 pm Unfortunately Combofix doesnt have a 64 bit version. Reply

6 Puneet November 28, 2010 at 2:22 pm Thanxxx !!!a tonn sir combofix worked 4 meur Genius!!! i tried a hell lot of things frm last 7-8 days ..i m using the latest quickheal.. many anti-malwares..nd wat not..but combofix is the winner!! u saved my ass.. thnxx again!!! hopefully will look upto u if any problem persists in future. Reply

7 Ugo November 30, 2010 at 1:24 pm Hi Jose,u are a real life saver,i have formatted my flash drives and harddrives so many times,but it never got rid of the virus(VAAPOQ and VAAPOQX)i had,i didnt knw it was on my systemanytime i plug in any flash or HHD,it turns it 2 shortcut,but with ur combofix.(though it took so much time,but it was damn worth it) Thank u so much,i wish i cld give u a bear hug rit nw!u r such a darling!(cant contain my gladness) Reply

8 Jose Tinto November 30, 2010 at 4:17 pm Thanks to all comments guys! I am motivated. Reply

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9 drekkie January 18, 2011 at 7:06 pm i need help my my external drive files turned into short cuts, help? Reply

10 PrithviBITS December 3, 2010 at 6:56 am Hi, I am using windows 7. I installed turbo fix and I could get back my hidden files but I couldnt remove the shortcuts. When I plugged my hard disk they are coming once again what to do? Reply

11 abraham December 29, 2010 at 8:53 pm hi, my files in the flash says 1kb and they become shortcust, i tried to clean the virus but i could not, and a friend told me to go the registry find the .exe file in the 1kb changed files and delete but it says that there is such file like that, and when i check the file property of the shortcuts it says jimizx.exe and then come letter of the flash and name of the file. what should i do Reply

12 Jose Tinto December 29, 2010 at 9:33 pm Have you download and run the combofix.exe mentioned in the article? Reply

13 drekkie January 18, 2011 at 7:08 pm help!! my external drive files turned into short cuts how do i redo the process?
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14 drekkie January 19, 2011 at 6:45 am thank you alot.it did work, i almost lost my medical books dude, but you help, i want to say thank you once more and again) Reply

15 Hinata January 21, 2011 at 9:05 pm Hi everyone; Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeelp !!!!!! I got a lot of errors when I have done the steps .. 1) My account pic can not be changed ( The specific picture in an unknown type or is not valid.Select a different picture ) and it appears with every pic and type I tried .. 2) My paint cant save anything (Paint cannot save this file.Save has been interrupted, so your file has not been saved ) 3) Microsoft word cant even display Save as screen 4) Other programs like Dell Dock cant even start . >.< I tried to use system restore, but all the previous system points has gone missing .. Please Help !!! Reply

16 sgc January 26, 2011 at 11:52 pm

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I was able to restore the root folders but am unable to do so for the sub folders. Reply

17 gilly January 30, 2011 at 4:05 am hi.. thanks a lot..it worked so far! and as usual from above comments, it was a weird name WBVOIJK.exe and BAUUO.exe Reply

18 Rudzani (South Africa) February 1, 2011 at 10:54 pm Woooooooow!!! This works PERFECTLY, thaaaaank you sooo much for your generosity and the fact that it is easily downloadable! Thank you sooooo much! Reply

19 Kelly February 9, 2011 at 12:13 am I have a Dell laptop running XP SP3. When I try to run combofix, it gets to where it says its scanning for infected files and stops. Everything stops. Even the clock. It never goes any further. Reply

20 Alberto February 10, 2011 at 1:25 am Hola distinguidos amigos!!! Les tengo buenas noticias Traten el antivirus Avira, es gratuito y elimina en un 100% este virus y otros muy carpetosos. Les cuento que tenia ese virus y de la forma rapida y sencilla que logre eliminarlo fue con este antivirus asi que a probarlo y me dejan saber

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Bendiciones!!! Reply

21 Alberto February 10, 2011 at 1:28 am Oh! Sorry I forget that this is english foro The easier way to remove this virus is using Aviras antivirus its free and remove 100% this virus. Recently i was infected by this virus and tryied everything but when I tried this antivirus the virus was removed. Thanks, Alberto Reply

22 Navneet February 10, 2011 at 8:24 pm Thanks it works Reply

23 Jagadeesh February 17, 2011 at 7:58 pm Sir can u say me ur email address or phone number i hav so many problems Reply

24 Red March 17, 2011 at 7:19 am hi jose.. i try what you said herei do it step by step.but the shortcut folder is still there..i delete it then i remove my external drive then use it again it came

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back..all my folder still shortcut pleaseeeee help meeee Reply

25 Jose Tinto June 3, 2011 at 8:15 pm Have you checked the solution explained here http://www.techjunoon.com/files-on-externalflash-drive-changedto-shortcuts-virus/ Reply

26 Mojtaba March 25, 2011 at 9:58 pm Thank you very much i was your kind. it worked well. Reply

27 maktub March 30, 2011 at 10:20 am OMG! I LOVE YOU! ^_^ GREAT JOB! Reply

28 Csymeno March 31, 2011 at 9:48 pm Hi. Tried your fix and I got an error about incompatible OS.. Am trying to scan Win 2003 Server.. Any ideas guys..
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Thanks Reply

29 Rajeejones April 5, 2011 at 2:03 pm PLEASE EMAIL ME! I have the exact problem except i dont know the name of the virus. Its stuck on all hardrives and both desktop and labtop. I have done the solution above and even removed it once before, but it keeps coming back. The solution is not removing it from my computer! its creating shortcuts on both computer and hardrive. I need these files for school! I have a external 180GB,250GB, and a 1TB hardrive. I need the files on them! PLEASE HELP!! email me asap rajeejones (at) yahoo (dot) com Reply

30 DivineAura April 26, 2011 at 4:39 pm It also deletes my Steam gaming platform *facepalm* However it works on Win7 64 bit Remember to disable UAC before you run ComboFix! Reply

31 evonne April 27, 2011 at 10:13 am i got a virus in my laptop via Facebook..i think it was the one with the fraud anti virus. the virus was asking me to install and pay for firewall anti virus from them and i couldnt access my own windows firewall their was nothing that i could do to fix iti turned my computer off for a week and turned it back on to my surprise it was gone like it didnt exist at all Reply

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32 Jose Tinto April 27, 2011 at 10:35 am Weird solution evonne! You must be lucky to get away with it without any proper clean up! Reply

33 XAmt May 4, 2011 at 6:33 pm Thank u I managed to remove the virus and fix the shortcut problem,but the virus also created Removeble F: drive that does not exist and I cant delete..!!?? I also went into the control panel-disk management section and the drive does not show, only in my computer pls help ASAPthanx Reply

34 royann May 5, 2011 at 5:15 pm how t know which prossess to run and kill Reply

35 prachi May 11, 2011 at 12:33 pm what to do if the cmd is also disabled by the virus?? Reply

36 Jose Tinto May 11, 2011 at 12:37 pm Go to your Windows Folder >System32 > and double click on cmd.exe Reply

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37 Angeline May 12, 2011 at 10:16 pm Hey the shortcut problem that i have is yocohx.exe i downloaded the combo.exe and saved it in the c drive. when i type cd combo then press enter it say the system cannot find the path specified.So what can be the problem? What must i do please help! Reply

38 Jose Tinto June 3, 2011 at 8:13 pm I think you have missed the step to create the folder called Combo in the C: drive. Reply

39 masterofdarker May 17, 2011 at 1:04 am Million thanks, you save me from a crisis, in my computer the virus was not toeuw.exe but it was wuauclt.exe but it work fine Thanks Reply

40 chap stik May 20, 2011 at 12:05 am which virus protector do you find to be the best? Reply

41 Jose Tinto June 3, 2011 at 8:11 pm If you are a home user and Looking for free one? I will suggest AVAST!

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For paid one I will suggest Node 32. I would like to know the experience of other peoples too. Reply

42 hamprof June 3, 2011 at 9:56 am thanks my friends it worked with me perfectly, i had a shortrcuts instead of the folders it self after running combofix i recovered all my files, thanks again god bless you hamprof bahrain Reply

43 @ft@-th0rt June 3, 2011 at 6:30 pm Hey Jose Will running combofix from a pendrive instead of from my c: within cmd work? Thanks for your hard work! Reply

44 Jose Tinto June 3, 2011 at 8:05 pm Probably wont because of the way the combofix scan performs. Reply

45 Lars June 4, 2011 at 6:03 pm

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This was perfect! Such a relieve THANKS! Reply

46 George June 17, 2011 at 2:57 am Thanks very much for information shared on your website. I managed to restore all my folders in my flash drive who became shortcuts. My other problem with another flash drive is that it doesnt show the files and folders in the flash. When I deleted all the files that are visible, in properties it still show that there stuff in the flash. I dont want to format it incase there are important dicuments in it but I wish to know how to make those files and folder visible and able to access too. Reply

47 ahmed June 23, 2011 at 4:21 am the step num 7 dont work with me when i tybe cd combo its not recognized as a function Reply

48 gaurav June 24, 2011 at 6:04 pm hey i did scaned with combo fix and used attrib command and half of the shortcut folders r back to normal but half r still in shortcut mode.. can u tell me what else i should to retreve my data Reply

49 suman July 17, 2011 at 1:43 am hello sir,

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i got a problem and that is all the files and folders in the pen drive I insert in my laptop becomes a 1kb shortcut. but the problem is that in the start menu the run icon is not there and I think this has happened due to viruses. also as u have mentioned in the above replies to goto system32 and then cmd.exe I tried did it but the cmd.exe file is not opening . what to now sir???? plz help me Also I have a lot of problems plzzz send me your E- MAIL id Reply

50 ashwin karanth July 22, 2011 at 11:26 pm Hello, I ran the ComboFix as mentioned and it ran properly untill the scan was done and Deletion step began. As soon as this happened I got the BLUE SCREEN OF DEATH Dont know what is the problem. Running on XP. Reply

51 Hasz August 4, 2011 at 2:38 am Couldnt find TOEUW.EXE and KOAPEE. EXE in process. What should I do? Reply

52 rajeesh kumar August 6, 2011 at 10:47 am I have the problem of getting my folders turned into short cuts. But I can not find the process Toeuw.exe running Reply { 1 trackback } Files on External/Flash Drive Changed to Shortcuts Virus
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