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J, on Tuesday August 5, 2008 04:46:09 PM
Hello, I am having trouble removing this malicious file from my computer, It is very annoying as it opens up hidden web pages and the sounds can be heard through my speakers. Does anyone know of any good free software that would permanently remove ceswxfst.sys and tcexfst.sys
Configuration: Windows XP
Firefox 2.0.0.16
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Ehsan, on Saturday August 9, 2008 02:19:19 AM
Just figured the solution to this!
The file that is doing this is macidwe.exe, and is starting either ceswxfst.sys or tcexfst.sys or cfexfst.sys. And They all play audio snippets off the web.

If you right click on My Computer, select Manage, go to services and applications, services, and then find the Macidwe Service. Right Click on that, select properties and change the startup type to "Disabled"

Press Ctrl+Alt+Delete and kill all processes you know are associated with this. Macidwe.exe and all the .sys files will be in the Windows/system32 folder, so just find the ones you see pop up when sounds play and delete them.

You should no longer have the problem. I think i just posted the first solution to this on the web :D
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Ehsan, on Saturday August 9, 2008 02:32:12 AM
Oh and another thing, to delete the files you may have to right click on the files and change the write permissions in the security tab to allow you to delete the files. AND there is another file responsible, tdxdowkc.exe, which also needs to be disabled in management, ended in Task Manager and deleted from system32.
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ocracy, on Sunday August 10, 2008 12:02:22 AM
Good work! Do you know much about the origin of that software (and the risks)?
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rsp853, on Saturday August 16, 2008 01:17:56 PM
Thank you Thank you THANK YOU!!!!!!
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Ehsan, on Sunday August 10, 2008 12:59:17 AM
So far i have seen little evidence to indicate a privacy breach, and it is probably most likely that the software was made to cause irritation, but i have no idea who made it, or alternatively what other risks it poses. I think i got it from a duff keygen or crack for Photoshop CS3 (Serves me right)

I also found other files that are responsible - Wserving.exe, Sobicyt.exe Nobicyt and Perfs.exe, known as Perfmons. All off these should be deleted from the system32 folder, as well as blocked in service management. I have a suspicion that Perfs.exe or Wserving may be the key file that keeps making these processes.
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hopeless infected, on Monday August 11, 2008 06:57:04 PM
should i delete all the "perfs" from my system 32 folder, such as:
perfos
perfmon
all those with "perf" in the name?
ive been winning against it so ffar...
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Ehsan, on Sunday August 10, 2008 01:03:59 AM
Oh and Afinding.exe, wow this is some evil malware!
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Ehsan, on Sunday August 10, 2008 01:09:05 AM
and routing.exe

Im pretty sure thats the last of it. Hopefully no more will be created when i start up again tommorow.
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tueurkate, on Sunday August 10, 2008 04:24:07 PM
I had to remove all of these (although it's possible this is more than one infection/problem):

afinding.exe
edtxfst.sys
macidwe.exe
Nobicyt.exe
perfs.exe
routing.exe
sobicyt.exe
tdxdowkc.exe
wserving.exe

I heard a woman giggling. Also, at one point I sneezed and I could have sworn a text-to-speech voice said "gesundheit".
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hossy, on Sunday August 10, 2008 10:38:11 PM
wow I have all of these same ones, so I think they probably are all connected.
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hossy, on Monday August 11, 2008 08:09:26 PM
i removed them all using this:http://forums.g4tv.com/thread.jspa?messageID=13499420 when I deleted stuff in safemode, I also had to delete perfs. before exiting safe mode you should check your task manager to see if any of these are left, and if so, delete those too:

afinding.exe
edtxfst.sys
macidwe.exe
Nobicyt.exe
perfs.exe
routing.exe
sobicyt.exe
tdxdowkc.exe
wserving.exe

There is also some stuff about mmchost. I didn't have it, so i just ignored the stuff about it in the guide and removed the ones I did have.
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hopeless infected, on Wednesday August 13, 2008 03:11:26 AM
thank you man.
problem solved...followed all of the above
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Mario, on Sunday August 10, 2008 04:39:29 PM
These files also appear in c/windows/prefetch, might wanna delete from there too
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j, on Sunday August 10, 2008 10:09:12 PM
Thankyou Ehsan and everyone else that posted on this topic, I have disabled and removed all of the files mentioned. Lets hope they do not come back.
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szig, on Monday August 11, 2008 01:54:52 PM
Thank you all guys for your assistance. My laptop kept playing random sound clips at random times. I read all your posts and disabled and deleted all suspected files. So far my computer hasn't played these clips at all so it has appeared to work. This is my work computer and my IT guy lives and swears by Symantec, which did not catch any of these files at all. I keep hounding him about not using Symantec, but obviously that has gotten me nowhere. One thing I did notice though. On the icon for the sobicyt.exe file, I had to squint to read it, but it read TS Online. I googled TS Online and it pulled up various links to "gaming" sites among a few sites regarding online learning. One of these sites might be a mirror site that keeps planting these files on our PC's. Anyway, thanks for the help guys.
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madman, on Monday August 11, 2008 02:54:50 PM
cfexfst.sys
atsxyzd.sys
routing.exe
wserving.exe
tcexfst.sys
tdxdowkc.exe
Nobicyt.exe
macidwe.exe
msudks.exe
dxtxfst.sys
afinding.exe
edtxfst.sys
perfs.exe
sobicyt.exe

there are all the files i had and the mcafee cleaned 6 trojans that originated from the perfs.exe application
it seems that my infection is more sericous because i have more files then you guys stated earlier
but i am going to all the things you suggested to rid my computer of these horrible files because they were not picked up on any of my scanners except the trojans but most of the files returned to my comp after a few days i will try the new methods and get back to you
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Ehsan, on Monday August 11, 2008 03:00:52 PM
All the sys files are generated and run by the applications made by perfs.exe. the exe's are the ones that are making the problems so dont worry if you have all these sys files going at you.
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Phil, on Wednesday August 13, 2008 09:26:19 PM
I hate to bust your bubbles, but I have the same problem of radio and other snippets playing at random; I tried what was suggested and found NONE of those files!

So what's my problem?
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hopeless infected, on Thursday August 14, 2008 03:39:41 AM
diffrent virus.
post any you might have.
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RickyC, on Thursday August 14, 2008 02:20:30 PM
Thanks for this! I had all them files but the only one that seemed to create sound for me was edtxfst.sys. And this one keeps appearing back in the processes. I kill the process then delete the file and have followed what Ehsan said to do :/

EDIT - actually its edbvfct.sys that keeps appearing for me now D:
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Afergy, on Friday August 15, 2008 04:28:24 PM
I too followed the suggestions and found and deleted all the files. My Norton anti virus program keeps picking up however the following exe files with different ending and beginning numbers. A0090039.exe. Norton is putting them in quarntine. I'm not sure of the source. Any suggestions? Can I delete the source once I find out what it is?
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aiya, on Sunday August 17, 2008 07:48:01 AM
i think i figured it out guys

when you get into the computer management, disable all files that have ______ corporation. I.E afinding service or wserving... E.X you should see ''wsering corperation'' in the discription.
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tb, on Friday August 22, 2008 09:41:48 PM
After you delete the exe files in safe mode
delete the services causing the problems by typing sc delete ______ Service

Careful you don't delete the wrong service!
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hossynossy4, on Friday August 22, 2008 10:21:20 PM
regrun worked for me when the trojan came back
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jaydoo, on Tuesday August 26, 2008 06:23:45 AM
I am having the same problem. The only thing is that I have looked every where for the files that you all have listed on the page and I can't find them. I still keep getting the music, radio station and other non sense on the speakers. I press F5 and it refreshes the screen and goes away. It will periodically reappear and I have to hit F5 to get rid of it again. There must be something that we can do or it will come back over and over and over again. I have been going through this for the last 4 months now. It sucks. I leave my speakers off just so I don't hear it. Also from time to time I get a pop up with a broken link. Pretty sure that comes with whats going on. I run Spybot non stop but that doesn't work, then Regcure and doesn't work and the virus systems that I have don't pick up crap. I used Norton 360 and Avast. Need some serious help.
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 RH, on Friday October 17, 2008 07:45:24 AM
Today is October 17, 2008. Update your McAffee to the latest and it will pick them up. Also update your spybot to the latest and it will pick any left trojans. Make sure you physically disconnect your PC from the internet (disconnect cable or the wireless connection) before you scan in McAfee and spybot.

If anyone knows how to use the Safe mode then return back to nomral mode without loss of my desktop configuration resolution, please let me know.
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J, on Thursday August 28, 2008 11:59:06 PM
Now I am having trouble getting rid of another malicious file that surfs the internet on hidden web pages 6LN0dYGS.exe, I delete the file from my system32 folder and it continues to come back. Any suggestions?
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ancient-one, on Monday September 15, 2008 08:03:00 PM
J - Has the random sound issue been solved ? I see no postings in September. My son's DEll laptop has this problem.
I had to clear over 100 Trojaan viruses from its hard drive. But the random sound still remains an issue. I will try the
things mentioned in this forum. tks
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