How to use the ESET Win32/IRCBot stand-alone cleaner from the Command Prompt window
KB Solution ID: SOLN2903|Last Revised: October 26, 2012ESET has provided this Win32/IRCBot stand-alone tool to remove this particularly resilient threat.
- Right-click the following link and then click Save Target As (or Save Link As) and then choose your Desktop in the dialog window. Click Save.
http://download.eset.com/special/ESETIRCBotANRCleaner.exe.
- Windows XP users: Click Start
All Programs
Accessories
and then click Command Prompt.
Windows Vista/7/Server 2008 users: Click Start
and type Command Prompt. Press Ctrl + Shift + Enter on your keyboard.
- The command usage of the cleaner is as follows:
ESETIRCBotANRCleaner.exe –clean
Follow the instructions below as an example of how to run the tool when saved to the Desktop on a Windows XP machine:
- Type CD Desktop and then press Enter.
- Type or paste the following command (To paste into the Command Prompt, you must right-click and select ‘Paste’ from the context menu as Ctrl + V will not work):
ESETIRCBotANRCleaner.exe –clean
- Press Enter.
- Type CD Desktop and then press Enter.

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- Restart your computer.
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