How to Remove Hacked by godzilla virus in 5 minutes

Posted in how to tutorials, tips & tricks, windows hacks, xp hacks | January 3rd, 2008

Now a days with the increasing use of portable drives various types of virus infect a large number of system very easily.

One of these common virus is "Hacked by Godzilla Virus" which normally spreads through portable drives etc.

My system got infected with this Hacked by Godzilla Virus and I repaired my system without the help of any antivirus software.

Lets first discuss the common symptoms of the Godzilla Virus.

If your system is infected by this virus you will see the this text "Hacked by Godzilla Virus" in the title at the top of the window of Internet explorer

Some other symptoms:

1. Task manager is disabled.

2. Regedit (Command for registry edit) is disabled.

3. Folder options got disappeared From windows explorer.

4. Double clicking on any of your system drive( c: ,d: etc) initiates a new instance of the virus.

So, you won’t be able to open any of your drive by double click rather you have to open then by right click >> explore.

5. msconfig command is disabled - this virus is not dependent on system startup but it disables the msconfig command used to modify the system startup programs.

Let’s see how you can remove Godzilla virus in 5 minutes.

Follow the Step by step procedure given below to remove hacked by godzilla virus.

1. First download process explorer ,run it and end all the process which are running as wscript.exe

2. Download RRT.exe (Remove restrictions tool)

You may be wondering..what is RRT?

So for your FYI: RRT (Remove Restrictions Tool) v.1.0 is a tiny tool that does the work for AVs, it re-Enables all what the virus had disabled, and brings every thing including task manager ,regedit ,msconfig and hidden folder options back.

3. now, you have regedit command enabled.

Browse to Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \Software \Microsoft \Windows \Current Version \Run and delete MS32DLL (right click on it and select delete)

Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER \Software \Microsoft \Internet Explorer \Main and delete “Window Title” which has it’s value of “Hacked by Godzilla“ or you can also write your name as a recognition for yourself.

4. Open My Computer,File menu go to Tools -> Folder Options, click on View tab

Under Advance settings,
check “Show Hidden files and folders“,
uncheck “Hide extensions for known file types“,
uncheck “Hide protected operating system files (Recommended)”
and click “OK” button

5. now right click on each of your drive and click explore now delete the files with names autorun.inf and MS32DLL.dll.vbs including your USB Drive

6. Restart your PC and your PC should be clean from Hacked by Godzilla.

Leave your comments if you have any issues in following the above procedure.

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40 Responses to “How to Remove Hacked by godzilla virus in 5 minutes”

Syahid A. on January 7th, 2008 | 1:56 am

These virus writers are really good in putting monsters name as a virus.

How do you get infected in the first place? No updated antivirus?
Remove the restrictions caused due to viruses by remove restrictions tool - TroubleFixers - All about fixing computer troubles on January 8th, 2008 | 9:09 am

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rambhai on January 20th, 2008 | 8:11 am

how does one get affected??any anttivirus recomended for simpler processes
manal on April 15th, 2008 | 9:35 am

4 days ago i follwd the instructions to remove HACKED BY GODZILLA, and its goood. but the problem now in my PC is RRT v4.7.o.2-monitoring and said that r-media malware detected! and it needs urgent attention! when i open RRT window it shows the FIREWALL SHARED ACCESS
when i put a chck on it it shows that i need to restart the PC and thats what i did, after restarting it shows that my PC might be at risk the firewall is OFF so i put it ON but evrytime ill use my PC it keeps repeating, could you pls help me on this. Thanks
Irfan on April 22nd, 2008 | 12:21 pm

Hey thanks a lot buddy.. have followed your steps and succesffuly resolved this ‘hacked by godzilla’ issue.. God bless you!!!
Rakesh on May 2nd, 2008 | 11:52 pm

Really Good…. Solution to remove the Effected Virus .

Thanx

With Regards
Rakesh
ali irfan on May 8th, 2008 | 10:52 am

thnx for really a great help.
it really works.
i have successfuly removed title hacked by godzila.

thanks

irfan
kaki langit7 on May 13th, 2008 | 11:42 am

Thx 4 ur helping and I will kick out hacked by godzila from my pc..GBU
diab.91@hotmail.com on May 24th, 2008 | 12:31 am

Hi I already followed the instructions and I removed the “hacked by godzilla” virus from my account on my pc. But there is another account on the same pc that still has the virus, and I cant find the specific files that I have to delete because I already deleted them before, so my account can work.
abhishek on May 27th, 2008 | 11:50 am

@diab.91@hotmail.com - if you have followed the procedure properly there will be no virus but if you had missed anything in terms of deletion of files there virus may become active again.
Jess on June 30th, 2008 | 9:50 am

Hi,

I don’t understand step 3. Where do I find this:
Browse to Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \Software \Microsoft \Windows \Current Version \Run and delete MS32DLL (right click on it and select delete)

Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER \Software \Microsoft \Internet Explorer \Main and delete “Window Title” which has it’s value of “Hacked by Godzilla“ or you can also write your name as a recognition for yourself.

when I try to use IE it says hacked by godzilla.
Can you help me. There was a lot of hard work in building my website. I dont want it gg down. Help please thanks.
abhishek on June 30th, 2008 | 10:22 pm

@Jess - In step 3, you need to open open registry by pressing window+ r and navigate to.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \Software \Microsoft \Windows \Current Version \Run and delete MS32DLL

now navigate to the following path

HKEY_CURRENT_USER \Software \Microsoft \Internet Explorer \Main

and change the value in windows title or delete it….and follow the steps further
Yohan Perera on July 3rd, 2008 | 9:46 pm

One problem, some anti virus software detects RRT infected with a Trojan!!
abhishek on July 3rd, 2008 | 11:23 pm

@Yohan Perera - Some anti virus reports unsigned programs as virus…but rrt is not a virus. You can read the policy from rrt homepage
Rishi on July 20th, 2008 | 11:39 pm

Excellent. It really worked. Thanks.
Eren on July 28th, 2008 | 10:18 am

5. now right click on each of your drive and click explore now delete the files with names autorun.inf and MS32DLL.dll.vbs including your USB Drive

i can not find MS32DLL.dll.vbs and therefore i cant delete it

there are al lot of files named autorun.inf because of games, which one am i to delete

help please im only seconds away from getting rid of this mess
Marina on August 4th, 2008 | 7:20 pm

Hello,
I am certain that I have this virus but I cannot find the files at the specified path in step 3:
Browse to Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \Software \Microsoft \Windows \Current Version \Run and delete MS32DLL (right click on it and select delete)

Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER \Software \Microsoft \Internet Explorer \Main and delete “Window Title” which has it’s value of “Hacked by Godzilla“ or you can also write your name as a recognition for yourself.

I also cannot find any files by the names listed in step 5. now right click on each of your drive and click explore now delete the files with names autorun.inf and MS32DLL.dll.vbs including your USB Drive

Please help. thanks
Gravity on August 17th, 2008 | 11:11 am

thnx alot, i really needed that.
ITT BDG on September 19th, 2008 | 1:38 am

step 3 Hints:
start -> run -> type regedit
elioni on September 21st, 2008 | 9:24 am

you are really hacker .. Bravo
jill on October 4th, 2008 | 8:56 am

wow. that was really useful. i didn’t have the godzilla virus but it emulated those exact symptoms. thanks a lot!
Mike on October 5th, 2008 | 6:47 am

Hi there! Thanks! it works….
Jan Ray on November 24th, 2008 | 11:47 pm

Thank you i wil follow the steps ….
Jan Ray on November 26th, 2008 | 11:32 pm

this steps can’t solve anything about my problem….

that is all…
Roura on December 2nd, 2008 | 5:00 am

I cant delete MS32DLL.dll.vbs it says u cant delete it and i’ve closed al applications but it’s not working
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Deyaa Addeen Fahmy Shedeed on December 8th, 2008 | 7:11 am

Really, v.good.
thanks.
suzy on December 13th, 2008 | 2:43 am

how to remove HACKED BY GODZILLA FR MY PC LAPTOP THANX
Rohit on December 26th, 2008 | 2:34 am

Just fixed happy bhaiya’s pc with these instructions
A M Hashir on January 1st, 2009 | 3:44 am

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Mikey on January 9th, 2009 | 7:00 pm

Thanks very much ;p
Rajiv Kautick on January 18th, 2009 | 2:23 am

Great Dude… just removed it. Many thanks…
kenvy on February 19th, 2009 | 2:09 am

how are you today?
now this virus “hacked by godzilla”, i came accross a similar virus that states “hacked by sam”. the procedure that is here by given for cleaning the “hacked by godzilla virus”can also be used for cleaning the latter.
sanjay on February 19th, 2009 | 10:24 am

Thanks it really removed the virus.

I am happy for this quick help from you.

Best of luck
Sanjay
fahd on February 27th, 2009 | 11:15 pm

thank u for this
Leigh Harris on March 10th, 2009 | 12:24 pm

I was able to remove it in 5 minutes… Your an angel on the net!

Best Regards
leigh Harris
Simon Lambertini on March 11th, 2009 | 3:06 pm

First thanks, this method has been a gem for me twice now! (Any tips on PREVENTING this virus from re-attacking?!)
Secondly, for those who stumbled at step 3. I also tripped up here and would suggest double checking the two parts of the step. First you are deleting MS32DLL from
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \Software \Microsoft \Windows \Current Version \Run
and then you are removing the ‘Hacked by Godzilla’ title in
HKEY_CURRENT_USER \Software \Microsoft \Internet Explorer \Main

Be sure you are in
‘HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE’ for the first part and
‘HKEY_CURRENT_USER’ for the second.

=) Good luck
uzi on April 21st, 2009 | 1:15 pm

Hi,

Thanx a lot worked for me too, i think …

I didn’t pay attention here though, thanx for pointing that out!

“Be sure you are in
‘HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE’ for the first part and
‘HKEY_CURRENT_USER’ for the second.@
Chiel on May 30th, 2009 | 1:46 am

Hello,

I have followed the steps succesfully untill I faced step 5.
When I checked ’show hidden files and folders’ there were none by the name of autorun.inf and MS32DLL.dll.vbs.
Is this a problem? ‘Hacked by Godzilla’ is gone, but is only the name gone or has the virus been deleted?

Thanks in advance!

Chiel
kasper on June 27th, 2009 | 7:32 pm

You forgot nummber 1 and 2:

Under Advance settings,
check “Show Hidden files and folders“,
—1—> uncheck “Hide extensions for known file types“, uncheck “Hide protected operating system files (Recommended)”<—–
and click “OK” button