computer virus

[overlander63]

Personal Antivirus or PersonalAntivirus :: Personal Antivirus Removal Instructions

[reggiemon]

Hi Jack,
Thats whats so bad about this stuff. They keep adding code to get around the effective removal programs so you have to keep finding what is updated and will work. 9 times out of 10 there is more to do beyond running just 1 program. However what I reccomended has worked for me within the last 2 weeks on 3 infected machines coming from different sources.

[Melody Ranch]

O.K., now I downloaded Malwarebytes and already use Adaware, Skybot, Norton, and my ISP has a McAfee filter. Whats a guy to do?

[Janet H]

Originally Posted by Melody Ranch

Whats a guy to do?

Run the scan. I just found rogue.RegTool on my pc. malwarebytes had a nice removal tool. Looks like this thing is all over the net.

[jcanavera]

Are you running a firewall??? Software or hardware? You need that too. Here's one of the best one's out there. The free version will plug a lot of holes. I used it for many years on my home PC. I'm using a pay for firewall today from Kapersky Labs.

ZoneAlarm by Check Point - Award winning PC Protection, Antivirus, Firewall, Anti-Spyware, Identity Protection, and much more.

Here's some additional info.

Firewalls
A good firewall will also make your computer more secure. Firewall programs render your computer invisible to hackers' probes. Hackers run scanning programs over the Internet, looking for computers with electronic openings, called ports. Good firewalls make your computer invisible to the scanners. As with antivirus software, don't run multiple firewalls. They will conflict.
Free firewalls:
• Zone Alarm
• Outpost Firewall
• PC Tools Firewall

[Janet H]

Originally Posted by jcanavera

Are you running a firewall??? l

Me? Yep and also lots of virus protection (although the latest and greatest Norton is getting poor marks just now). But What I read tonight is that if you do lots fo surfing (and I do LOTS of surfing) chances are you may run into one of these critters.

[Minnie's Mate]

I, too, got this virus. I thought I got it from a rogue email that hi-jacked my address book on Friday. Anyway, I got rid of it this morning.

Here's how I did it: I contacted Norton and let them know that despite using their Norton 360 Premiere and Firewall, I got a message from what I thought was MS software that came with my machine saying I had 2501 threats. They told me it was actually a virus and proceeded to spend an hour and a half remotely going through my files and removing all infections at a cost of $99.99! I was not happy that I spent nearly that much for soft ware to protect me from viruses and then got one and then they charged me to remove it. I told them that if they were aware of the virus, why didn't they have an update to remove it. All they could say is that they couldn't keep up with all threats and were sorry for the inconvenience. I told this guy that openly admitted to being in India that I thought that Norton probably wrote this virus so they could charge to remove it to increase their bottom line during a world wide recession. They had no comment. I also told them that they had lost a customer.

[SaabLover]

I was attacked by a really bad Russian Mal-ware last year. It was so bad the longer it was there the worse it got. Also the more I tryed to get rid of it the more it increased its' grip. It nearly completely took over my system. At random times it would send me to certain web sites some were porn type sites some were Canadian Pharmisuitical sites and Anti-Malware sites. All the time telling me in very big scary lettering written acrossed my computer monitor that I must buy this software for $39.95 or I would never get rid of it. "This is no lie". I finally brought Ad-Aware by Lavasoft.com.$26.95. I have been running Ad-Aware it blocks any Mal-ware or Ad-ware it also tells me if the site is dangerous and recommends that I should not go there. Just a note, it has never told that airforums is unsafe not once. At least once a week or more I will run a sweep to remove any other problems. I haven't had any problems since installing it. Some of you have Norton's Systems Works with "Go Back". If you do try using it to return to a time when you did not have the Virus. "Nortons Anti Virus" which I also have. It does not find the the mal-ware like Ad-Aware does. I feel that Ad-Aware does a better job at this.

[Relentless]

I picked it up from this site yesterday, Sunday. I did not click on an ad. Rather, I clicked on a topic I was interested in and got the pop up instead. I closed everything and ran a McAfee Scan. Looks like its gone.

John

[Snowey BC]

Same here on Saturday. I didn't click anything, unplugged the comp from the wall, and called #1 son who I put through University for a comp sci degree. He had me run some checks similar to Malware, I needed to update some programs (I got a short lecture). All is fine since.
Jackie

[SaabLover]

I did not get this virus. I am on here lurking at least an hour or 2 a day. My Ad-Aware blocks pop ups.

[Minnie's Mate]

My Norton blocks pop-ups, too, and I didn't open any ads so there is no telling how we all got it, but this forums seems to be the common denominator. My guess is the google adds that randomly appear on the site aren't monitored by anyone here or at google for viruses. Just one more thing to worry about.

[SaabLover]

Originally Posted by Minnie's Mate

My Norton blocks pop-ups, too, and I didn't open any ads so there is no telling how we all got it, but this forums seems to be the common denominator. My guess is the google adds that randomly appear on the site aren't monitored by anyone here or at google for viruses. Just one more thing to worry about.

Now I am wondering if you all have gotten this thing because you are not signed on to the web site. Because as we all know that you get a lot more adds if you are not signed on. I always am signed on so I only see the margin ads on the Portal page. Which I don't usually click on. (Sorry I just cked I don't see those either.) I never never ever get any pop up adds at all. Unless I need to and my software asks me if I want to allow them.

[Minnie's Mate]

I am always signed in, too. Unless I go in and delete my cookies, then I have to sign in again when I revisit the site.

[SaabLover]

Well all I can say is that you guys and gals just don't have the right mal-ware blocker. I know mine is doing a very good job as I haven't had any problems with this for over a year.

[trucker101]

I also saw the virus screen when I clicked on the spot I marked with a red check mark.As soon as I saw the virus warning thing I closed my browser & did a scan of my whole pc using AVG, PC Tools Spyware Doctor & Malwarebytes
If I did this corectly the thumbnail should show up below.
If not here is a link to the screen shot of where I clicked.
http://img524.imageshack.us/img524/9...eamscrshot.jpg

[NevadaGeo]

1) how do you get to a "Task Manager" in Vista? control alt delete goes to some "log off" "lock" screen in Vista. I didn't want Vista but that's what they have in the store these days.
2) I had something that "BitDefender" found and got rid of, Norton never saw it. But how do I know for sure. Was sold Norton by the Staples guys, they said its much better now than a few years ago. Poo.
3) how do you know all the right questions to ask about protecting against. Antivirus, adware, malware, firewall, paid for everything, got all that cr..p running I think. Then you get a trojan. Say what? Oh you gotta have another computer to go to BitDefender and download some file you can plug into your puter with a flash card or something. Can we shoot them that write those things?

[DEITZ645]

At home on Sunday afternoon when I started Internet Explorer (I have the forums as one of my tabbed homepages) it went right to the page where it looks like it is running a virus scan. It also pirated the setting for the tabbed home page. Now I wish I would have written down the web address. I deleted it and set it back to the forums address. I ran a full MacAfee scan and Windows Defender scan last night and found nothing.

On Monday morning on my work laptop the same thing happened.

It has not appeared since then on either my personal or work computers.

In both instances I used the Windows Task Manager to "kill" all open browsers and did a full shutdown reboot.

[bullydogsmom]

I also had this scary "ad" on sunday morning. AVG didn't spot it, so maybe is wasn't a real virus just something to scare you. My sister came yesterday and did a "restore systems" on my desktop. She restored my computer BACK to last wednesday, and now the "personal anit-virus" logo is gone from my desktop and everything is running just fine again.

So try the "restore systems" first and see if that gets rid of your problem. I don't know how she did it, but she looked up the instructions on how to do it on my laptop. I think she googled how to restore systems for Vista and windows XP.

Hope this helps someone.

Annette

[Paul&Dee]

This article in the NY Times technology section Conficker.E to self-destruct o n May 5th? - NYTimes.com
says that the conflicker.e worm has been waking up and trying
to scare people into buying an antivirus program. I had this happen to me on Saturday. I shut down the computer, then ran my Trend scan and it didn't find anything. I downloaded spybot this morning and am running it's check now.

The conflicker worm spreads by attaching itself to emails, then sends itself to everyone it finds in your address book or on emails that
are in your inbox. Since we are all on the Airforums email updates,
it would not be surprising if a lot of us had the conlicker.c worm.