Sunday, September 09, 2007

How To Remove haha.js

Its a javascript and not that really harmful to your PC but a little bit annoying though. Most noticeable effect if your PC are infected with this worm is the tittle bar of your IE change to "haha" word.

Some of the antivirus does detect this worm. Here is the way how to remove it manually..

Step 1
On your mycomputer menu option go to Tools>Folder option
uncheck box "hide protected operating system files"in Tool-Folder options and check "show hidden files".




Step 2
Open Task Manager by pressing ctrl+alt+del. End Process all Wscript.exe that you can found in the Task Manager(some times it can be more than one process)

Step 3
Open mycomputer and search for haha.js files and delete it there should be an autorun.inf file comes with this haha.js just delete it

*this haha.js run when you use double click to open your drive c: ,d: ,e: ..when removing this worm use right click instead to open any drives. Don't forget to look and delete this haha.js in your external hd and thumbdrive

Step 4
Go to Run type msconfig. At the startup tab look for any haha.js @ wscript.exe unchecked and delete the key location in the registry.

finally restart your PC. Good luck on trying!