Hello!

tl;dr: I used 4wd's script and it did it! My HTML files are clean now! Thank you so much 4wd, you saved my life files! (But also probably life!) And also thank you for getting me to learn AutoIt scripting a bit because of your laziness. :P

More:

I hope it is okay that I made a few modifications to the script like so: at first I used the script on a two small directories (say C:\a\a1 and C:\a\a2) and it worked, so I used it again on their parent directory (C:\a) that contains more directories other than a1 and a2. When I ran it there, it made backups of already cleaned files in a1 and a2, and made backups of the previous backups! Since I was going to use the script again on a larger scale (C:\), I didn't want it to make more and more duplicate backups, so I studied the script, downloaded AutoIt, tinkered around, and finally made it so that uninfected files wouldn't be backed up.

In the end I ran the script on C:\ and it repaired all but those in C:\Program Files. But there are not so many HTML files there, only some help files that can be fixed by reinstalling the software so it's all great. :Thmbsup:

The modified script:


So again, thank you very much 4wd and donationcoder, and I apologize for modifying the script without asking for your permission first.

Hi all, thanks for the replies.

@Curt
Thank you for the recommendations, but the links you provided helps with shortcuts and .vbs files, which were already handled by Avast. My biggest problem now are embedded vbscripts inside HTML files.

@mouser and @MilesAhead
Unfortunately part of my work deals with a collection of HTML files, most of which were synced over Dropbox (for team projects) and Copy (for my personal projects). I realized the existence of the virus when Dropbox on my other computer reported changes in HTML files when no one's working on them, so I installed antivirus, and the rest is history. So while I probably will do fresh install anyway, there are still infected files that I have to deal with. I know that both Dropbox and Copy keep backups of older versions, but since there are so many files across different directories I think it's more feasible to have a script that cleans the files rather than restoring backups one by one. But if you have any other suggestions I'm all ears.

@4wd
I need to clarify something: after looking at some of the infected files it seems that the <SCRIPT..>'s were appended at the end of each files, so for example if there's a HTML file with only


in it it would be modified to


. So I think the correct approach should be looking for a SCRIPT element with Language=VBScript. If you can write the batch file I'd be very thankful.

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