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W32/Delbot-AD disinfection instructions

Resolve is the name for a set of small, downloadable Sophos utilities designed to remove and undo the changes made by certain viruses, Trojans and worms. They terminate any virus processes and reset any registry keys that the virus changed. Existing infections can be cleaned up quickly and easily, both on individual workstations and over networks with large numbers of computers.

Windows 95/98/Me and Windows NT/2000/XP/2003

W32/Delbot-AD can be removed from Windows 95/98/Me and Windows NT/2000/XP/2003 computers automatically with the following Resolve tools.

Note: When disinfecting variants not listed above, use the recovery instructions in the appropriate virus analysis.

Windows disinfector

DELBTGUI is a disinfector for standalone Windows computers

If you are disinfecting several computers; download it, save it to floppy disk, write-protect the floppy disk and run it from there.

After removing the worm you should update your computers with all relevant security patches from Windows update. More details are in the W32/Delbot Resolve tool readme.

Command line disinfector

DELBTSFX.EXE is a self-extracting archive containing DELBTCLI, a Resolve command line disinfector for use by system administrators on Windows networks. Read the notes enclosed in the self-extractor for details on running this program.

After removing the worm you should update your computers with all relevant security patches from Windows update. More details are in the W32/Delbot Resolve tool readme.

Other platforms

To remove W32/Delbot-AD on other platforms please follow the instructions for removing worms.