One of my friends recently got infected with a pretty scary, and very hard (almost impossible) virus to remove. I have been doing all I can to help him remove this virus, but the only solution we got to was re-formatting his hard drive. But I managed to get some of the infected files using ClamwinPortable, so I have been submitting them to as many virus programs as possible to be analyzed. So far I believe they have been making progress, as now many of these files are being detected by most popular virus scanners. I also submitted them to microsoft to be analyzed. Anywho here is a link to what it looks like, and also one of the comments lists some of the sites that if you go to them you will be infected so watch out for them. http://www.xp-vista.com/spyware-removal/spyware-guard-2008-removal-instr...
This thing creates many trojans, and the only way to get back to your files is to boot up in safe mode, (Do this by holding or repeatedly pressing F8 as your computer starts up) I recommend doing it in SafeMode with networking so you can do Microsofts online scanner. It really helps a lot.) Also I read that this virus may steal personal information, so if you can, dont enter anything online when infected with this virus, and also boot in safe mode and remove anything that may contain personal information, such as bank records, email addresses, etc.
Here are some things that it affects
- It will effect Internet explorer, making it impossible to do anything with it
- It will somehow disable your virus scanner, making it the default one
- It will tremendously slow down your computer, most of the time freezing it
- It regenerates itself continously
- It will try to trick you into thinking that your computer is infected, and will ask you to buy their product DO NOT PURCHASE THE PRODUCT IT WILL ASK YOU TO BUY, IT IS A SCAM
FoundFix: Do the following...
- Turn off your infected computer
- Hold F8 During startup, then select "SafeMode with networking"
- Wait for startup, then open Internet Explorer, this is the only one that works with microsoft online scanner
- Go to http://onecare.live.com/site/en-us/default.htm, then click "Full Service Scan" button, then let it install what it needs to install, then when the menu comes up choose quick scan, the one that scans common areas for virus's, run that, then remove what it finds, After that Run the Full System scan, which will then further remove other threats that are created by this virus, after that your computer will start up and now more virus, after that I recommend getting files you wish to keep, and try to run a system restore a couple of days before you remember getting the virus, or just format your harddrive. Hope this helps.
That is all I can remember for now, I will post back frequently, but just remember, dont download anything that may be illegal, such as Serials, or keygens, as those are some of the most common ways computers will get a virus's/trojans/spyware/etc.
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