Posted on 06/27/2010 6:12:20 AM PDT by Mere Survival
I thought I had killed a virus. It was a Chuck Norris Trojan that infected the router and directed me to a site that infected me with the AV Suite ransom virus. No anti-virus and anti-spyware programs got the virus so I had to 1) set a password on my router (to keep it from being reinfected) 2) Reset and then turn off my router to kill it's RAM with the redirect 3) remove the partition to reformat my drive 4) reload everything.
I thought that killed it and it seemed to. Then yesterday I went into my NVIDIA graphics processor to put it in sync with my LCD TV.
Well . . . I get a popup saying X program is trying to connect. Thought it was NVIDIA and BAM I've got the AV Suite virus again. Worried it lodged in the NVIDIA hardware somehow? Anyone hear anything about that?
I ran Malewarebytes and killed the AV Suite virus, but after it was dead I got an error screen (the site unavailable one) on internet explorer. Now I can only connect thru Firefox or Netscape.
Anyone have any ideas?
back up you files, including operation system, wipe your machine, reinstall everything.
this worked for me....
download.com
get free trial NOD32 then run scan
this should find and isolate your virus
good luck!
this worked for me....
download.com
get free trial NOD32 then run scan
this should find and isolate your virus
good luck!
done 3 times, not it.
Also, avoid IE like the plague. I refuse to use even the most up to date version of IE for anything other than work stuff because no matter how secure you think it is, something like this always happens.
Sounds like a rootkit I would low level format the drive and start over
My neighbor got that virus and called on my expertise for aid. I have none of that so I got it taken care of by another neighbor’s teenager who moused and keyboarded for 40 minutes and it was all fixed. I don’t know what he did because I couldn’t follow his moves and he doesn’t explain things very well at all. One characteristic of this AV infection is that it prevented the executing of any setup file that I tried to download or run from the DOWNLOAD folder on the hard drive.
From the graphics and the “AV” I think it was trying to disguise itself as the AVG antivirus program, which it disabled. It also disabled Spybot and the firewall. Those were the only programs that had to be uninstalled and reloaded.
Go to www.majorgeek.com and follow their instructions. You’ll end up running “hijackthis” and hack your registry. Go slow and follow the directions exactly or you’ll kill your computer. If you do, though, you will kill the viruses.
mark
“fdisk /mbr” after you have deleted any existing partitions on the hard disk.
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So that will take it out if it’s in the master boot record? Ok, will give that a try.
BTTT
I have no suggestions but wish you luck - how terrible these cyber terrorists are. They should be shot~
Are you Serious?
It’s Chuck Norris, you can’t beat him
Did someone forget to mark this Post - Satire?
To get rid of a virus in Windows it’s better to be OUTSIDE the windows environment.
Google “Kaspersky Rescue Disk”. When you find it, download the ISO image file and burn it to a CD. This will create a bootable CD that has the Kaspersky Anti Virus program running in Linux.
Make sure before you boot, that the computer is connected to the internet by a WIRED connection. The rescue disk will not set up wireless.
Now update the virus signature files. After that your ready to scan. Set the scan for “take action after scan finishes”. This thing has worked for me several times. Scan before you go to bed. It can be real slow.
V live long and prosper.
Before or after they are thrown into a pit of live Rats?
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