TOEUW.

EXE is a malware which has the the following actions: Writes to another Process Virtual Memory (Process Hijacking) Executes a Process This process creates other processes in your system. Added as a Registry auto start to load Program on Boot up Created as a process in your system Executed as a Process TOEUW.EXE has the following brother program file: TOEUW.SCR 43553497.SCR 87263564.EXE How to remove TOEUW.EXE How to delete TOEUW.EXE

1. Kill the Toeuw.exe process on the Processes 2. Then download Combofix: http://download.bleepingcomputer.com/sUBs/ComboFix.ex e 3. Create a folder in C: drive called Combo er. 4. Close all other browser windows. Important: Temporarily disable your anti-virus, real-time protection before perf orming a scan. They can interfere with combofix or remove some of its embedded f iles which may cause unpredictable results . 5. Go to start -> Run -> Type cmd (Without quotes) and click OK. 6. Type 7. Type 8. Type cd and Enter cd Combo and enter. ComboFix /snapshot then enter. It will run Combofix and save the ComboFix.exe to that fold

Please note, that once you start combofix you should not click anywhere on the c ombofix window as it can cause the program to stall. In fact, when combofix is r unning, do not touch your computer at all and just take a break as it may take a while for it to complete. Don t forget to restart the system once the process is completed. When finished, it will produce a logfile located at C:combofix.txt with the file s removed. If you are facing any problem to follow the steps ask me in the comments. I will reply you as soon as I can. __ NB: TOEUW.EXE Malware sometimes create a process which changes your external dri ve s folder icons to shortcuts and hide the folders. To bring back the folders to external drive, follow the link Files on External/Flash Drive Changed to Shortcu ts Virus September 3, 2010 by Jose TintoFiled under: How To

About Jose Tinto The technology has been changed a lot over the years. I have been blogging since 2007 and started TechJunoon to help the technology lovers. I have been always l ooking for latest technologies and cool gadgets in the market. Follow us on Twit ter at @techjunoon, or subscribe to techjunoon via Email. Add me to your Google+ circles. Comments yogesh says: November 13, 2010 at 5:00 pm In my computer the virus was not TOEUW.EXE but it was koapee.exe but it work ed for that also. Thanks :) :) Reply Jose Tinto says: November 14, 2010 at 12:09 am Good to hear that it worked for Koapee.exe also. ComboFix is effective i n all such kind of malwares. Reply rachelle says: November 14, 2010 at 11:51 am i did this, and my desktop wallpaper became all black after i restarted it, what could be the possible cause? btw, i cant change it. thanks for the help! :) Reply victor says: November 26, 2010 at 6:01 am hi there combofix worked great on my windows vista 32bit, but im also infect ed on avista 64 bits, what do i have to do to get a version of combofix that wor ks with vista 64bits Reply Jose Tinto says: November 30, 2010 at 4:18 pm Unfortunately Combofix doesn t have a 64 bit version. Reply Puneet says: November 28, 2010 at 2:22 pm Thanxxx !!!a tonn sir combofix worked 4 me ur Genius!!! i tried a hell lot of t hings frm last 7-8 days ..i m using the latest quickheal.. many anti-malwares..n d wat not..but combofix is the winner!! u saved my ass.. thnxx again!!! hopefull y will look upto u if any problem persists in future. Reply Ugo says: November 30, 2010 at 1:24 pm Hi Jose,u are a real life saver,i have formatted my flash drives and harddri ves so many times,but it never got rid of the virus(VAAPOQ and VAAPOQX)i had,i d idn t knw it was on my system anytime i plug in any flash or HHD,it turns it 2 shortc ut,but with ur combofix .(though it took so much time,but it was damn worth it) Thank u so much,i wish i cld give u a bear hug rit nw!u r such a darling!(ca n t contain my gladness) Reply Jose Tinto says:

November 30, 2010 at 4:17 pm Thanks to all comments guys! I am motivated. :) Reply drekkie says: January 18, 2011 at 7:06 pm i need help my my external drive files turned into short cuts, help? Reply PrithviBITS says: December 3, 2010 at 6:56 am Hi, I am using windows 7. I installed turbo fix and I could get back my hidden f iles but I couldn t remove the shortcuts. When I plugged my hard disk they are com ing once again what to do? Reply abraham says: December 29, 2010 at 8:53 pm hi, my files in the flash says 1kb and they become shortcust, i tried to cle an the virus but i could not, and a friend told me to go the registry find the . exe file in the 1kb changed files and delete but it says that there is such file like that, and when i check the file property of the shortcuts it says jimizx.e xe and then come letter of the flash and name of the file. what should i do Reply Jose Tinto says: December 29, 2010 at 9:33 pm Have you download and run the combofix.exe mentioned in the article? Reply drekkie says: January 18, 2011 at 7:08 pm help!! my external drive files turned into short cuts how do i redo the proc ess ? Reply drekkie says: January 19, 2011 at 6:45 am thank you alot .it did work, i almost lost my medical books dude, but you help , i want to say thank you once more and again ) Reply Hinata says: January 21, 2011 at 9:05 pm Hi everyone; Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeelp !!!!!! I got a lot of errors when I have done the steps .. 1) My account pic can not be changed ( The specific picture in an unknown ty pe or is not valid.Select a different picture ) and it appears with every pic an d type I tried .. 2) My paint can t save anything (Paint cannot save this file.Save has been int errupted, so your file has not been saved )

3) Microsoft word can t even display Save as screen 4) Other programs like Dell Dock can t even start . >.< I tried to use system restore, but all the previous system points has gone m issing .. Please Help !!! Reply sgc says: January 26, 2011 at 11:52 pm I was able to restore the root folders but am unable to do so for the sub fo lders. Reply gilly says: January 30, 2011 at 4:05 am hi.. thanks a lot..it worked so far! and as usual from above comments, it was a w eird name WBVOIJK.exe and BAUUO.exe Reply Rudzani (South Africa) says: February 1, 2011 at 10:54 pm Woooooooow!!! This works PERFECTLY, thaaaaank you sooo much for your generos ity and the fact that it is easily downloadable! Thank you sooooo much! Reply Kelly says: February 9, 2011 at 12:13 am I have a Dell laptop running XP SP3. When I try to run combofix, it gets to where it says it s scanning for infected files and stops. Everything stops. Even t he clock. It never goes any further. Reply Alberto says: February 10, 2011 at 1:25 am Hola distinguidos amigos!!! Les tengo buenas noticias Traten el antivirus Avira, es gratuito y elimina en un 100% este virus y otros muy carpetosos. Les cuento que tenia ese virus y de la forma rapida y sencilla que logre eliminarlo fue con este antivirus asi que a probarlo y me dejan saber Bendiciones!!! Reply Alberto says: February 10, 2011 at 1:28 am Oh! Sorry I forget that this is english foro The easier way to remove this virus is using Aviras antivirus ove 100% this virus. it s free and rem

Recently i was infected by this virus and tryied everything but when I tried this antivirus the virus was removed.

Thanks, Alberto Reply Navneet says: February 10, 2011 at 8:24 pm Thanks it works Reply Jagadeesh says: February 17, 2011 at 7:58 pm Sir can u say me ur email address or phone number i hav so many problems Reply Red says: March 17, 2011 at 7:19 am hi jose.. i try what you said here i do it step by step .but the shortcut folder is still there..i delete it then i remove my external drive then use it again it came bac k..all my folder still shortcut pleaseeeee help meeee Reply Jose Tinto says: June 3, 2011 at 8:15 pm Have you checked the solution explained here http://www.techjunoon.com/f iles-on-externalflash-drive-changed-to-shortcuts-virus/ Reply Mojtaba says: March 25, 2011 at 9:58 pm Thank you very much i was your kind. it worked well. Reply maktub says: March 30, 2011 at 10:20 am OMG! I LOVE YOU! ^_^ GREAT JOB! Reply Csymeno says: March 31, 2011 at 9:48 pm Hi. Tried your fix and I got an error about incompatible OS.. Am trying to scan Win 2003 Server.. Any ideas guys.. Thanks Reply Rajeejones says: April 5, 2011 at 2:03 pm PLEASE EMAIL ME! I have the exact problem except i dont know the name of the virus. Its stuck on all hardrives and both desktop and labtop. I have done the solution above an

d even removed it once before, but it keeps coming back. The solution is not rem oving it from my computer! its creating shortcuts on both computer and hardrive. I need these files for school! I have a external 180GB,250GB, and a 1TB hardrive. I need the files on them! PLEASE HELP!! email me asap rajeejones (at) yahoo (dot) com Reply DivineAura says: April 26, 2011 at 4:39 pm It also deletes my Steam gaming platform *facepalm* However it works on Win7 64 bit :D Remember to disable UAC before you run ComboFix! Reply evonne says: April 27, 2011 at 10:13 am i got a virus in my laptop via Facebook..i think it was the one with the fra ud anti virus. the virus was asking me to install and pay for firewall anti viru s from them and i couldn t access my own windows firewall their was nothing that i could do to fix it i turned my computer off for a week and turned it back on to m y surprise it was gone like it didn t exist at all Reply Jose Tinto says: April 27, 2011 at 10:35 am Weird solution evonne! You must be lucky to get away with it without any proper clean up! Reply XAmt says: May 4, 2011 at 6:33 pm Thank u I managed to remove the virus and fix the shortcut problem,but the v irus also created Removeble F: drive that does not exist and I cant delete..!!?? I also went into the control panel-disk management section and the drive doe s not show, only in my computer pls help ASAPthanx Reply royann says: May 5, 2011 at 5:15 pm how t know which prossess to run and kill Reply prachi says: May 11, 2011 at 12:33 pm what to do if the cmd is also disabled by the virus?? Reply Jose Tinto says: May 11, 2011 at 12:37 pm Go to your Windows Folder >System32 Reply Angeline says: May 12, 2011 at 10:16 pm > and double click on cmd.exe

Hey the shortcut problem that i have is yocohx.exe i downloaded the combo.ex e and saved it in the c drive. when i type cd combo then press enter it say the sys tem cannot find the path specified .So what can be the problem? What must i do ple ase help!

Reply Jose Tinto says: June 3, 2011 at 8:13 pm I think you have missed the step to create the folder called Combo in th e C: drive. Reply masterofdarker says: May 17, 2011 at 1:04 am Million thanks, you save me from a crisis, in my computer the virus was not toeuw.exe but it was wuauclt.exe but it work fine Thanks Reply chap stik says: May 20, 2011 at 12:05 am which virus protector do you find to be the best? Reply Jose Tinto says: June 3, 2011 at 8:11 pm If you are a home user and Looking for free one? I will suggest AVAST! For paid one I will suggest Node 32. I would like to know the experience of other peoples too. Reply hamprof says: June 3, 2011 at 9:56 am thanks my friends it worked with me perfectly, i had a shortrcuts instead of the folders it self after running combofix i r ecovered all my files, thanks again god bless you hamprof bahrain Reply @ft@-th0rt says: June 3, 2011 at 6:30 pm Hey Jose Will running combofix from a pendrive instead of from my c: within cmd work? Thanks for your hard work! Reply Jose Tinto says: June 3, 2011 at 8:05 pm Probably won t because of the way the combofix scan performs. Reply Lars says: June 4, 2011 at 6:03 pm This was perfect! Such a relieve Reply THANKS!

George says: June 17, 2011 at 2:57 am Thanks very much for information shared on your website. I managed to restor e all my folders in my flash drive who became shortcuts. My other problem with another flash drive is that it doesn t show the files an d folders in the flash. When I deleted all the files that are visible, in proper ties it still show that there stuff in the flash. I don t want to format it incase there are important dicuments in it but I wish to know how to make those files and folder visible and able to access too. Reply ahmed says: June 23, 2011 at 4:21 am the step num 7 dont work with me when i tybe cd combo it s not recognized as a function Reply gaurav says: June 24, 2011 at 6:04 pm hey i did scaned with combo fix and used attrib command and half of the shor tcut folders r back to normal but half r still in shortcut mode.. can u tell me what else i should to retreve my data Reply suman says: July 17, 2011 at 1:43 am hello sir, i got a problem and that is all the files and folders in the pen drive I ins ert in my laptop becomes a 1kb shortcut. but the problem is that in the start me nu the run icon is not there and I think this has happened due to viruses. also as u have mentioned in the above replies to goto system32 and then cmd. exe I tried did it but the cmd.exe file is not opening . what to now sir???? plz help me Also I have a lot of problems plzzz send me your E- MAIL id Reply ashwin karanth says: July 22, 2011 at 11:26 pm Hello, I ran the ComboFix as mentioned and it ran properly untill the scan was done and Deletion step began. As soon as this happened I got the BLUE SCREEN OF DEAT H :( Dont know what is the problem. Running on XP. Reply Hasz says: August 4, 2011 at 2:38 am Couldn t find TOEUW.EXE and KOAPEE. EXE in process. What should I do? Reply rajeesh kumar says: August 6, 2011 at 10:47 am I have the problem of getting my folders turned into short cuts. But I can n ot find the process Toeuw.exe running Reply

jj says: August 9, 2011 at 1:11 am how t do step 1-Kill the Toeuw.exe process on the Processes Reply Hyuck Lee says: August 10, 2011 at 10:10 am I did it but it didn t start so i double clicked on the program and it started then it installed and worked but after that, i checked the log and it deleted some stuff like Nvidea stuff and some other things then after 30 min my computer crashes and that blue screen comes up and it freezes like that o n the blue screen . Whats happening to my computer? Reply polwin D says: August 12, 2011 at 4:11 am Is there any fix for windows xp???? Reply varun says: August 13, 2011 at 11:28 am I was able to restore the folders but am unable to do so for the sub folders and their sub folders. I have been run the file for 5times but no use. Can you plesase helpme. Reply dhawal tandon says: August 19, 2011 at 2:02 am dear sir, i have a hard disk of 250 gb.it has around 200gb data which i cannot loose . when i plugin the hard disk ,the pop up sound comes..it starts blinking and auto playes but shows no item in the autoplay . my computer hangs then and once i saw the properties of that external harddisk ,its showed 1kb. Thus it is for sure a virus problem .combo fix couldnt resolve it .what should i do now.im really ten sed .should i use EASEUS to recover the matter ?the computer hangs after inserti ng it.please advice. thankyou Reply Nico van Steeensel says: August 19, 2011 at 8:02 pm The Combofix does not run, complains that the memory is too small to load th e programm. What can I do? Reply vimal says: August 22, 2011 at 9:55 pm u re a life saver !! thanks a ton ;) got my movies back Reply Allen says: August 27, 2011 at 4:19 pm HOLY COW!!! thanks a lot dude! Problem SOLVED =) Reply shru says:

August 31, 2011 at 10:31 am when i click cmd in run ,,, a window box with black color telling d prompt has been disabled by your administrator . s coming ,, wt should i do? :( :( Reply shru says: August 31, 2011 at 10:58 am help plz Reply Jose Tinto says: August 31, 2011 at 11:45 am Hi, Are you using Windows XP or Windows 7? Reply Jose Tinto says: August 31, 2011 at 11:48 am You probably sitting in an office premises, I think. In that cas e your should consider your IT admin to do the job for you. Reply R.Vishnu Priya says: September 2, 2011 at 11:02 pm Thanks a lottt !!!! =) a huge headache over for me. thank u =) Reply David says: September 4, 2011 at 11:13 am Jose, thank you very much!!! It worked perfectly. I had all my files hidden in my external drive. I run combofix, and it stopped messing with my other usb d rives. After that I only had to change the attributes to the files that were hid den, but nothing was lost :) Thanks again. Cheers! Reply Jose says: September 21, 2011 at 1:14 pm Hi, It seems my computer is infected with a malware. c:/windows/system32 has a file 3142437004 which panda active scan detected as malware. I am able to see a process 3142437004.1933029956.exe in processes but I am not able to end it. v irus is not allowing to run combofix, it starts and then gets blocked. then not able to access the combofix.exe file. Tried many other antivirus, everything get blocked immediately. Pls advise. Thanks. Reply tekleab says: October 7, 2011 at 2:18 pm I pluged my flush disc on my friends desktop to print a doc and after few mi nutes i was not able to open that folder again and all the other files on that f ush turned to short cut and i dont know weather the datas are lost or not please help Reply Anonymous says: December 6, 2011 at 2:32 pm the comman

Hi good noon pls icemate s laptop and ecame shortcut files Reply Satyavrata says: December 6, 2011

help me fix my problem with my USB. I inserted it in my off what happened next I can t anymore open my folders. They have b and have a baeuwox.exe. How can I fix this. Pls HELP at 9:46 pm

Dear Jose Tinto! I am Mongolian. Just by following your direction, i succefu lly recovered all my 400 gb files in external Hard. Thank you very much for your good job!!!. God bless you always! Reply rajesh says: January 6, 2012 at 2:31 pm whenever i insert any pendrive then I m finding three files i.e. autorun.inf ,thumbs.db and desktop.ini also some of the folder are two of the same name but one is visible and one is hidden. please help me for the solution Reply anie says: January 8, 2012 at 6:34 pm thank you..you save me a lot :) Reply sibusiso shongwe says: January 12, 2012 at 2:18 pm thnks a lot it worked broo Reply Sudhakar says: January 21, 2012 at 11:02 am Thanks a lot!! this has solved my very long time problem!! Reply Trackbacks Files on External/Flash Drive Changed to Shortcuts Virus says: September 3, 2010 at 2:52 pm [...] Usually this happens when your system is affected by TOEUW.EXE malware /virus . Here is How to Remove TOEUW.EXE malware/virus Save or Share [...] Reply Speak Your Mind Name * Email * Website Notify me of followup comments via e-mail Subscribe to RSS Add Jose to your Circles tter Share on Facebook Email Subscription Enter your email address: Follow TechJunoon on Twi

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