Sorry I've been away but I promise I will have some rant-filled goodness for you tomorrow if someone can help me disinfect my home business computer.
It's got a variety of shit in there apparently. You name it Trojan horse, etc. etc. It's a Malware buffet.
Reinstalled and updated Malware Bytes and it scans fine but crashes when I try to remove.
Spybot ran through once, deleted all but 2, couldn't get it to run again, tried to reinstall and crashes on reinstallation.
Decided to try Avira Antivir Personal. Same thing, crashes on installation.
It's one particular file that continues to spread its nasty little seed every time I delete the other crap. I gotta knock it out!
Someone help!
P.S. My thoughs on the trade -- Highly pissed off to lose bumping machine Gail Kim and Shelton Benjamin. But there's more room to push Benjamin on ECW and since they seem to be trying a half-assed R-Truth push I think it's against policy to push more than one of "those kinds of people" on a brand. Which means Kofi Kingston and MVP are fucked by Mark Henry's odd addition. Happy to have Matt Hardy back (that RAW thing did not work out) but he needs to get in shape. Losing Edge and Jericho from full-time Smackdown status sucks too but at least it raises the profile of the tag titles. Intrigued by the Hart Dynasty.
Anyway guys, free my computer!
Happy Canada Day!
HijackThis should do the trick (just google for it, it’s free).
I have two programs that should clear it up.
1. an anti virus that finds stuff that others like avg and avast can’t find, it’s called Removeit xt pro it’s free and you can find it here….
http://dailyfreeware.net/2006/09/26/removeit-pro-xt-se/
2. the other program that is excellent for getting rid of malware is malwarebytes, also free. you can get it here….
http://www.malwarebytes.org/ download the free version on the left
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You should probably try thoroughly reading what she wrote. Especially the part about not being able to install Malwarebytes.
Make sure you attempt all of this in safe mode if you can get there. Malware/Viruses can go stealth and shutdown processes / cause crashes when you try to do things it doesn’t like (such as go to anti-virus websites, launch anti-malware programs, etc.) Plus in many cases, you can’t always remove every last trace of the malware unless you are in safe mode, and certain malware (such as Vundo) can regenerate themselves from just a few remaining traces of the original infection.
You should be able to get to safe mode by pressing F8 on your computer as it’s booting up (after your computer beeps, but before the Windows loading screen comes up)
Do you happen to know the name of the file or where on the hard drive it’s located, or what kind of Trojan is specifically causing the problem?
I’d recommend going into safe mode with networking, THEN installing and running the programs.
You may also want to try a registry cleaner.
Best way to fix this us to not be in Windows for a bit. You need a live cd or live flash drive to boot into, with tools to make repairs.
Scott, the EXACT same thing began on my computer a week ago. I also had some fake “windows defender” popups nonstop. I copied all my important files in SAFE MODE (press F8 during startup) onto a new external hardrive I purchased ($100), then brought the hardrive to my computer guy at work. He has seen everything over the last ten years and believes the latest trojans are some of the nastiest. He removed everything from my hardrive then reinstalled but the virus keeps altering itself and hiding. He installed hundreds of dollars worth of spyware, firewalls, malaware (all free), but the computer is still having problems. I might have to purchase a new hardrive for a few hundred bucks, as it seems the be the best bet. I wish you luck.
I’ve had fairly good success lately with the free Windows Live OneCare Safety scanner. I know it’s a Microsoft product and so some people frown on it, but it scans for viruses/spyware, fixes registry errors, defrags your drive if it needs it and cleans up the temp files.
I’ve heard surprisingly good things about the 15 day trial of Norton 360 from one of my coworkers for when he can’t just erase a computer that’s infected.
Also Kaspersky has a free online scanner, but I’ve seen it throw off some weird false positives because it scans ports and can see chat programs as a virus.
If you’ve got the space and want to get really adventurous, you can always make a small Ubuntu partition and use the Ubuntu antivirus to scan the Windows partition.