Virus Help

[Sark79]

Hi,

Last night I watched True Romance online ( Great movie, watch it if you haven't already,  just not from where I did )

Ever since then I have been battling with my laptop, it keeps freezing and cutting me off.  It is a fight to stay on.

I ran a AVG scan and it came back that I had a Trojan horse. Generic4. TB  virus . Serious threat.

I moved it to the virus vault and it then told me I was clean.  However, every time I turn on my laptop, I get a message telling me a virus was detected and also Spyware Doctor tells me I have the same virus.  I have tried healing it and also putting it in the virus vault.  But it is still there.

The google page keeps disappearing .

Bloody scum who make these things


Any ideas?

thanks

[Sark79]

I found this on yahoo Q+A  page .  This guy also tried AVG and had the same virus as I have.

Please tell me this isn't required?   


Best Answer - Chosen by Asker

System Restore is useless here. It will only restore the virus, along with your settings for that restore point. Unfortunately, the best course of action here is to reformat your system. Hopefully, you have a backup. If not, you can make one, but be warned that you MAY backup the virus itself. DON'T USE THE SYSTEM BACKUP. Do it manually, and burn your files to CD (Pick the files then right click>send to CD). Otherwise, you will DEFINITELY back the virus up, and you'll just end up reloading it onto your newly formatted system. Use a program like KillDisk (free) to scrub the hard drive, as the virus is most likey living in sector 0 (boot sector), and the standard Windows reformat typically will not rewrite that sector. After using KillDisk, boot to the Windows CD and reformat again using the NTFS file system, then reinstall Windows. Good as new! After all that is complete, restore your files from your backup CDs. Hopefully, the virus was not embedded in anything within your docs or anything else, and you are fine. If, after restoring your files, the virus rears it's ugly head again, it's somewhere within your backup! Consider the data lost, trash the CDs, and perform all the steps listed above again, MINUS reloading the backup, of course. Good luck!

[RichEO]

Try avast virus scanner, or trend micro's housecall (online runs in a browser) if you can run you laptop long enough. IMO AVG is a load of rubbish.

[Sark79]

Thanks,  I tried those, unfortunately nothing worked .  I am going to have to try reinstall windows, everything is freezing now....  I really hate these people who make computer virus,  what is the point apart from pissing people off.

[ifm]

Make sure you turn off system restore before you run any AV/spyware programs!!
Just a quick google and it seems this is more spyware than virus.

EDIT seems like it is due to Sys Restore, best advice appears to be to manually delete all restore points except the last one or all of them then run AVG and other scanners.

Shamelessly stolen from an AV forum:

• To delete all restore points except the latest one, use the Disk Cleanup  utility. Click Start, All Programs, Accessories, System Tools , and then Disk Cleanup . Click on the more options  tab and then select Clean up  in the System Restore dialog box.
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• To delete all the restore points on your computer, disable and re-enable system restore on the system. Click Start, Control Panel , and then the System icon. Click on the System Restore tab in the dialog box, select the Turn off System Restore check box, and click Apply . Clear the check box again to re-enable System Restore and then click OK .

[ifm]

Can you post the site the file was hosted on Sark, i watch a lot of stuff online these days and i would like to avoid it if possible.

NOT THE LINK btw

[ifm]

Just a point, dunno if this was just me but when i installed spyware doctor it wasn't configured to autoupdate itself and i had to do this manually so make sure it is set up correctly.

[Sark79]

Hi mate,

I can't recall what site it was Boss.  I was watching the movie on Dailymotion and when it got to part 6, it cut out on me.  I stupidly typed the movie into google and when I saw it on a movie site, I clicked it.....bang, everything went frozen.  I checked for viruses straight away and the one above was shown.  It must be a steroid enhanced little bugger because I have tried killing it with various different things online.  It is really annoying,  I get told it is dead and a few minutes later it reappears. I don't want to delete everything if possible as I have a zero % understanding of computers,  I just want a way to get rid of this bloody thing.   

If I ever find myself in a position of power in the future,  I will bring in  THE SARK LAW .  This involves legal torture of the morons that invent computer viruses.

[Sark79]

Make sure you turn off system restore before you run any AV/spyware programs!!
Just a quick google and it seems this is more spyware than virus.

EDIT seems like it is due to Sys Restore, best advice appears to be to manually delete all restore points except the last one or all of them then run AVG and other scanners.

Shamelessly stolen from an AV forum:

• To delete all restore points except the latest one, use the Disk Cleanup  utility. Click Start, All Programs, Accessories, System Tools , and then Disk Cleanup . Click on the more options  tab and then select Clean up  in the System Restore dialog box.
.
• To delete all the restore points on your computer, disable and re-enable system restore on the system. Click Start, Control Panel , and then the System icon. Click on the System Restore tab in the dialog box, select the Turn off System Restore check box, and click Apply . Clear the check box again to re-enable System Restore and then click OK .

ty.   I am just trying this now

[da_poker_monkey]

Not sure this will help, I had a virus problem that kept reappearing after I cleared it.  I searched my system for the day and time that I knew the problem started for all exe files and found it.  Deleted it and it never returned.  Turned out to be a file that was creating another file that was then creating the virus.  Maybe just a one off lucky shot but u never know.

[Sark79]

Thanks.  I have tried everything and I have a mate who is a computer pro, he can't get rid of it.   I am taking my laptop to the computer doctor in Killie after the weekend, hopefully they can do something.  I am seriously pissed off right now.