Virus Help!!!!

[shilala]

Originally Posted by jledou

Fought it at work and BIL fought it a couple of weeks ago. There are a couple of things you can blow it away from the registry (script from symantec to unlock the registry) or there is a dos prompt to kill it and a restore point that will fix it also. More solutions are out there now on google but easier if you search from another computer. Time I fought it, it blocked malwarebytes install.

It's pretty much advanced to where it blocks all executables, and it hijacks your browser so you can't even do an online scan.
I found it last week, worked out the solution, re-aquired the virus purposely, and retested.
The system restore is a lot easier than cleaning the registry for the browser hooks.

[jledou]

Originally Posted by shilala

It's pretty much advanced to where it blocks all executables, and it hijacks your browser so you can't even do an online scan.
I found it last week, worked out the solution, re-aquired the virus purposely, and retested.
The system restore is a lot easier than cleaning the registry for the browser hooks.

I agree, these pain in the arse people need to invest their time in Linux then it really would bring down MS. Unfortunately though it looks like they are moving towards virus hijacking and ransoming of the computer which is what this is/is leading to.

My daughter clicked on one of those fake ativirus warnings and downloaded a rouge security malware. It was blocking all attempts to remove it.
I had to boot into safe mode and I ran a program called SuperAntiSpyware from a CD. It removed all the malware plus some adware plus the tracking cookies and a trojan backdoor. I rebooted and ran a Windows Defender full scan and found a couple more evil program files. This took hours. I will run a registry cleaner next.

Those fake antivirus warnings are convincing enough except I get them telling me my Windows files are infected when I'm not running Windows.