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JUST HAD TO RE-INSTALL AFTER BEING ATTACKED TWO NIGHTS AGO BY ANTI-VIRUS 360. VERY NASTY, ONCE IT TAKES OVER IT INFECTS YOU WITH TROJANS THEN KEEPS PROMPTING YOU WITH WINDOWS LOGO AND SHEILD TO BUY THEIR SCAMWARE AND THAT YOUR IN DANGER, NO KIDDING!!!! IT WONT LET YOU DO ANY THING!!! FINALLY GOT RID OF MOST OF IT WITH MALWARE BITES ANTI MALWARE AND TREND MICRO BUT NOT ALL OF IT........ MAN WHAT A PAIN IN THE '=@%(]! WISH SOMEONE COULD DO SOMETHING ABOUT THESE SCUMBAGS!!!! PEACE ALL AND GOOD LUCK, DANA

how did you get it?

One word..
Avast

Apoptosis wrote:how did you get it?

just surfing the web. i had to edit my post to change the name its called ANTI-VIRUS 360 BEWARE!!!

Dragon_Cooler wrote:One word..
Avast

better find a new word cause i already had AVAST when it attackted. my big mistake was following its promps and tried to use their scamware to get rid of itself. if you get attacked shut all programs and use your anti malware or some other removal tool. thanks for the info .DANA PS.i do really like AVAST anyway.

Isn't that what Daiceman had a while back? I had that happen to a friend's rig too. Was a pain in da arse to get rid of it.

I think I had something like that on my uncle's PC, that or "security center 2009", which was a pain in the arse to remove.

Dan

1 word - malwarebytes

Best spyware/trojan remover I have used! Sux you have to pay for the version to get auto updates and running, but the free one works just fine as long as you manual update and run it!!

Mike

AVG :p

I do virus removal for a living...

http://download.bleepingcomputer.com/sUBs/ComboFix.exe

BEST SCRIPT EVER

Yeah, combofix really is awesome :D

Dan

I'll second combofix. I had some buggers that got on two systems at home. I knew something was wrong cuz the browser was acting funny. I tried all kinds of stuff to find it and the only thing that worked was combo fix.

1) Run ComboFix - Remove
2) Spybot Or Spysweeper (I perfer the latter)
3) CCLeaner, everything, including start up items (clean it up)
4) Dial-A-Fix EVERY OPTION

Problems solved, 100% virus free, 100% bug free, everytime ;)

Just a quick heads up for others - Combofix should work for most viruses, but ones like WinAntiVirus 2008/2009 also have a rootkit so even if you get the virus out, your windows install has already been chopped up. Yes you can get the rootkit out, but its best to just reinstall, cause getting the rootkit to disappear is not worth the time spent at the end of the day.

my dad had this 2 weeks ago on his new rig and it is a level 10 virus all in one thing . once it attacks your rig you are almost fu***d. the best thing is to disconnect from the net so it cant trace you, cause if you still connected when you do a virus scan and everything else posible it will install another backed up on your hard drive that your virus software wont find even if its the best.

so as you disconnect wait 5 mins do a scan then restart your system and scan again and it will find the backed up file but, if you disconnect then the virus scan will normally kill the virus straight away.

if you dont disconnect it will normally get into your motherboard and yes that is possible as that is what happened to my dad. it got into his motherboard then fried most of his system and £600 went down the drain, so he thought, but thank god for warrenty.

hope this helps you all out!

Is Winantivirus 2009 the same thing as Spyware 2009? My sister has it on her family PC and is asking me what to do about it. I've read that Malwarebytes & Super Antispyware may successfully remove it.

yes they all work in the same way but a virus scanner is a lil better. and as for Malwarebytes & Super Antispyware they do the job very well so i reccomend them.

there was also another one called Spy Falcon that my brother got on his laptop just days after a fresh reinstall..

Sparky wrote:Is Winantivirus 2009 the same thing as Spyware 2009? My sister has it on her family PC and is asking me what to do about it. I've read that Malwarebytes & Super Antispyware may successfully remove it.

Follow my path of removal, bahlam problem solved.

I do this ALL DAY, EVERY DAY, for a living. I know what kills computers, what works, etc.

Thanks Tech_Greek, I'll give it a try this weekend when she drops her tower off at my place.

Last week I formatted Vista back to XP. The next day I was getting my programs installed and hit a virus. I haven't had a virus in years and was about 90% done with my reinstall. I noticed that it infected roughly 50% of all the executables on my PC. Long story short I formatted and started over. Once XP was installed the first piece of software I installed was NOD32.

I consider myself a pretty safe surfer, hell I don't even have an AV solution on the PC I'm writing this from. I typically visit the same websites and seldomly fall off the beaten path. I don't know where I picked up the virus but they are a pain in the butt. My knee jerk reaction to friends/family members with PCs that are infected is to backup your pictures, music, movies, etc... and reinstall Windows. Why bother with HOURS of scans when it takes 30 minutes to reinstall Windows?