Well, this info came in handy much sooner than I expected. I picked up Security Tool from Ebay this afternoon. With the other reports, I thought maybe someone had mistakenly clicked on something they shouldn’t have and didn’t remember doing it. I know without a doubt all I clicked on was an auction description and everything went haywire. I have no idea how this thing is getting through!
Anyway, thanks for the info. The fix went a little differently for me but at least gave me a good place to start. After following your suggestions, it was still running rampant but when I deleted the Start menu shortcut, I noticed the path for it was different than the desktop shortcut and pointed back to another (numbered) folder in the same location. After deleting that one and editing the registry, I had enough control to deal with the other things piggybacked on it. (More malware and my AV also picked up four trojans. Don’t know if the viruses were related but they didn’t show up during the scheduled scan this morning.)
Thanks again for posting it! I was at least able to access your post on FR via my Blackberry and follow your instructions.
Dpwiener, thanks for the malwarebytes info. Downloaded it after Spybot and Ad-Aware didn’t do a thing for the additional malware and it worked like a charm. Found 31 things they’d both missed! I’m test driving everything now to make sure it’s all gone and so far, so good!
Sorry if this post is rambling/doesn’t make sense. My brain is completely fried after dealing with this! (And we blondes don’t have much steam power to spare!) lol
Big hugs to both of you! :D
Got Security Tools on my computer and could not do anything to get rid of it. This worked for me because security tools will not allow you to open any software that can defeat it while you are running in Normal mode. I have windows XP.
Steps:
1. Download the free malwarebytes software running Windows in Normal Mode at this link
http://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam.php
2. Then reboot computer in Safe Mode using F8 to allow you to choose Safe Mode
3. Run malwarebytes quick scan and remove infected files while in Safe Mode
4. Reboot in Normal Mode and you should be clear of the Security Tools Virus