Posted on 04/22/2012 7:00:47 AM PDT by Former Fetus
My IP uses McAfee,
What does this mean?
4)Besides running both MSE and MAM, do you have any other suggestions?
Download the AVG Rescue CD iso, burn it to a CD. Boot of that, let it scan. Have it remove whatever it might find.
More good stuff to keep in your toolbox: Combofix, Malwarebytes, and TDSSkiller. Combofix has the potential to do damage.
That, and make frequent backups.
Yup. it sounds like a variant of the FakeAV family... That family of bugs can be further divided between 'easy fix' which any AV should handle, and 'with rootkit', in which most AVs can kill the imported bugs, but cannot see the rootkit itself, which just keeps surreptitiously downloading and re-installing the bugs in the background. This sounds like the rootkit variety, and with the exception of combofix, most of the suggestions here won't fix the problem.
However, before applying combofix, read on:
I see nobody has mention Kaspersky tdsskiller, can be downloaded from the Kaspersky site, easy to use and quick. It has helped me fix several friends computers that were infected with similar malware.
EXCELLENT suggestion! Depending upon the variant, Kaspersky's AVPTool will usually kill it, and will remove any other bugs as well - The only instance I am aware of where KAV's AVPTool won't fix is if it encounters the TDSS rootkit - It will know it is there, and inform you of it, and recommend running TDSSKiller and then AVPTool again. FakeAV sometimes employs TDSS, so it is a possibility here.
Probably the best method would be to DL TDSSKiller first and run it (takes minutes), and then DL and run AVPTool once the kit is removed (if found). !!!Warning!!! these tools are meant for service techs and may behave unexpectedly for home users!!! READ THE MANUALS!!!
After the bugs are dead, I would recommend installing and using (on a regular basis) CCleaner, Spybot Search & Destroy, Malwarebytes (free ver), and Microsoft Security Essentials - feel free to FreepMail me for use and instruction if needed.
If you become infected often hereafter, I would suggest uninstalling MSE and buy Kaspersky Anti-Virus (not Security Suite) or Esset's Nod32 instead... and figger out why you tend to get infected (usually high school aged children) and changing those habits...
Bg, AVD did not crash your computer. Sounds like the issue is a ‘picnic’ to me. (Person in chair, not in computer). Download the latest AVG it’s awesome. Better yet, get a new computer with AVG. Thanks man.
Restoring your system to an earlier point works well most of the time.
But, sometimes these trojans are just relentless and will hide themselves and reappear even after a ‘restore’.
And restoring doesn’t erase the program from your computer.
I’ve had some really nasty ones reappear on me, even after a ‘System Restore’ so I scan anyway.
It’s best to scan in ‘Safe Mode’, just to be sure and then if you want to ‘restore’ that would be fine too.
BTW.
You really don’t need to do a ‘full scan’.
A quick scan will find them just as well.
Thank you for the info.......and I've got your back. LOL
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