TDSSKiller.exe Malware Removal Tool

 
Today I'm trying out an application
called TDSSKiller.exe. It is
a malware removal tool.

I don't have any known malware on my
Windows XP machine. The only reason
I'm trying this is to do research.

Here are the steps I've taken to obtain
this malware removal utility:

1. Fire up the Google Chrome browser
2. Go to the TDSSKiller webpage
3. Download TDSSKiller.zip
4. In Chrome, click on tdskiller.zip
5. Look for folder tasks on
   the left side of you screen
6. Choose Extract all files
   underneath folder tasks
7. Unzip the file into a folder of
   your choice

For easy reference, here's the webpage
that TDSSKiller.exe comes from:

Viruses and solutions

Here's where I chose to place
TDSSKiller.exe

c:\tdsskiller

Here's how I created the
tdsskiller folder:

1. Right click on the Windows XP
   start button
2. Click run
3. Fill in the blank with
   the word cmd
4. Look for the DOS
   prompt
5. at the DOS prompt, type
   cd c:\
6. type mkdir tdsskiller
   to create a temporary folder

I've followed the following steps to run the utility:

1. Right click on the Windows XP
   start button
2. Click run
3. Fill in the blank with
   the word cmd
4. Look for the DOS
   prompt
5. at the DOS prompt, type
   cd c:\
6. Look for the c:\
   prompt
7. At the prompt, type
   cd tdsskiller to
   change directory to the
   tdsskiller folder
8. Type tdskiller.exe to
   run the TDSSKiller malware removal
   utility

Doing any kind of computer work
is very detailed. That's why I
write out how I do things so
carefully.

Even when I write carefully, I
realize that it is hard for others
to duplicate precisely what I did.

Here's a post that gives some helpful
information:

How to Remove Rootkit.Win32.TDSS using TDSSKiller

Ed Abbott