How can you remove Bridge exe infected by Trojan downloader small 4d that keeps re-installing itself after each reboot?

Answer 1

I had a problem similar to yours and I ran AVG and got a message saying that the virus was embedded.

I tried deleting it in safe mode, etc. So I searched my Temporary internet Files folder and went into G9EJ8LMJ and my problem was the file loader exe, so I listed the folder by details looked for exe files and deleted it there manually. As I said my problem was loader exe so I suggest you look for bridge exe, before you delete it scan it with AVG just to make sure that is your problem.

P.S. Please have your system restore off or the virus will appear again. I have done this myself and spent 3 hours doing it, this should save you a lot of time and heartache.

Bridge wrote a script to download another copy of itself from the internet every time I opened IE (or Avant), so kept on appearing to "come back from the dead". Fortunately, HijackThis was able to locate the relvant script. It was then a matter of looking through the list of problems HijackThis came up with and deleting everything associated with the Trojan. The self-downloading script was very obvious in the HijackThis log.

I, too found the bridge.exe on my home computer. Here are some tips. If you delete it from the add/remove programs file in the control panel, it will come back. (At least, it has for me, on several occassions). Virus scan 7.0 does not seem to remove it properly. Neither does the Stinger componant I was told by a mcafee tech. to use. I went to the highjackthis site, and it found about 5 dozen files. I don't know what to files do delete! If anyone can help me, I would be very appreciative.

having read all the above may i also suggest to any other users that may experience this problem that they run msconfig and check the start up tab you will find bridge .exe loads a dll file on startup and this is why when u delete it it it still comes back if you untick this box and then remove from add remove progs and finally check your temp directory you will be able to reboot ok

Follow TJB post re downloader.4d. It worked for me.

The school I go to had the virus on there computers. The antivirus program could not take the virus out. I had to go into the registry, temp folder, quarintine folder, and system32 folder to remove the virus. Do a search in the registry and another search on your PC for the following files: bridge.exe and bridge.dll. There is a method in do so...it's a long process, but I managed to get it out.

See Symantec's Security website.

Run search, open the folder containing the bridge application, delete it. Usually in Temp files

All Trojan horses are hidden files so you would need to go to the Files Option (click the View tab)at Control Panel and uncheck both the *Hide file extension for known file types & *Hide protected operating system files (Recommended)-boxes, then OK yourself out. You will then need to restart your computer and and go into Safe Mode by holding the F8 key down -(kind of at the beginning of start up). When you're at the DeskTop screen go to Start/ Search/ For Files and Folders and type up the NAME OF THE FILE & EXT which would have shown up on your Anti-Virus software, you can delete this file from here.

I have had 4 Trojan horses on my C drive and kinda figured out the above method a week ago. I deleted the Temp file from the Restore folder after unchecking the hidden files boxes, then went to SafeMode to delete what virus files that were still there. My computer is now absolutely FREE of these pests!