SearchSecurity: Malware toolkit
David Strom at SearchSecurity.com has assembled an excellent guide to malware removal tools.
The latest RPC Windows vulnerabilities, combined with the performances of August's Blaster and SoBig worm attacks, continue to haunt corporate networks. And the number of new worms and attack vectors will only increase. So I thought I would put together a collection of tips and tools that you might want to arm yourself with. Some of these come from readers, which I humbly acknowledge. Others are my own.
If you've been infected by Sobig or Blaster, you need to assume that whatever Internet connectivity you might have had is temporarily off the air. The best bet, according to Ben Myers, is to create a CD that contains everything you need to get back online. I would include the following: patches to fix both Windows 2000 and XP from Microsoft's WindowsUpdate site, the FixBlast and FixSbigF removal tools from Symantec Security Response. Once you get this CD together you'll want to make duplicates, and send them around to your various remote offices and users as a good preventative measure.
If you get tired of applying the various Symantec patches for each particular virus, you might want to try McAfee's Stinger. It is a single executable, and covers dozens of different viruses, scanning and eliminating them from your drive. You can download it here.