Get rid of “Orkut is Banned You Fool!!” malware

by Sunit on January 21, 2008

Have you ever got an error like this?? while accessing sites like Orkut or YouTube??
Orkut is banned you fool!!

I also didn’t get ;) . But a friend of mine was facing trouble with something of this type sometime back. He had asked me for solution, but I couldn’t help him at that time. So, at last he had to format his hard drive and re-install the Operating System.

But, today while surfing friend’s website, I found the solution.

If you are getting the error, follow the following steps.

1. Go to the Task manager

2. Click on the “Application” Tab

3. Right Click on the application that’s giving you the Message, then select Go to Process.

4. Now you’ll find “svchost.exe” Highlighted.

5. Right Click and Select “End Process Tree”

6. Now go to My computer, in the address bar type- C:\heap41a and hit enter.

7. Now delete all the files visible in this folder.

8. Go to Start > Run and type Regedit

9. Go to the menu and click on Edit> Find

10. Type “heap41a” and hit Enter. You will get something below:

“[winlogon] C:\heap41a\svchost.exe C:\heap(some number)\std.txt”

Select that and Press DEL. It will ask “Are you sure you want to delete this value?”, click Yes

11. Close the registry editor, that’s it, no more haha. You can now open Orkut without any problems.

Hope you got rid of this stupid and annoying virus. And do help your friends out with this. Because this forbids them to meet you at websites like Orkut :) .

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