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Posted by Todd H. on September 8, 2008, 3:21 am
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> ok now i dont know if this is the right place or not but please help me.
> i have this virus problem, i got this after downloading a keygen i
> think.
Most keygens are trojaned. If you need to research them, it should
NEVER be done on your host operating system. They should only be deal
with inside a virtual machine under vmware or equivalent, and a locked
down instance of vmware at that.
> anyways, everytime i open internet explorer or click anything on
> internet explorer this sign pops up and says. (This also happens when i
> attempt to open any folders)
>
> Virus Below - [USER NAME] is my username i just writ that because of
> personal safety.
If you've still got this computer on, you have no personal privacy, in
all likelihood. I don't mean to come off as harsh--but you can't trust
that computer any longer.
> \"ATTENTION, [USER NAME]! SOME DANGEROUS VIRRUSES DETECTED IN YOUR
> SYSTEM. WINDOWS VISTA (TM) HOME PREMIUM FILES CORRUPTED, THIS MAY LEAD
> TO THE DESTRUCTION OF IMPORTANT FILES IN C:\WINDOWS. DOWNLOAD PROTECTION
> SOFTWARE NOW!
>
> CLICK OK TO DOWNLOAD THE ANTISPYWARE. (RECOMENDED)\"
>
> there is a yes or no button.
>
> if i press yes it takes me to an area to download this anti virus
> if i press no it takes me to another area saying its recomended to
> download this, and are you sure you want to destroy your pc's health.
> etc etc
>
> now i think this is just Some sort of Mal-ware.
>
> i have used all my anti viruses to pick up something. but yet no luck
> i have used
>
> Bit Defender v10
> Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware
> Ive downloaded "Spybot S&D" aswell and tryed it. but no luck was
> found.
>
> so im asking anyone out there can you help me. I know people have had
> the same sort of problem but they had XP and they solved it using spybot
> or anti-malware programs. but i used em and nothing has helped me.
The canonical advice for any potential malware infection is to flatten
and rebuild. That is, fdisk, reformat, and reinstall the OS from
original readonly media.
Unforutnately, many computers come without DVD or CD backup media, and
leave that only on the hard drive in a utility partition where CD's or
DVD's can be made from there. Unfortunately as the utility partition
is part of a live hard drive, it too can be prone to infection and
could possibly create trojaned install media. Not likely... but
possible.
Best of luck recovering from your malware infection. I'd strongly
recommending a complete reinstall from original DVD/CD media. You'll
at least then be able to trust your machine again. No individual
point tools will restore your peace of mind, as there's no way
antimalware tools can know how to clean the infinite number of
variants of malware that exist.
--
Todd H.
http://www.toddh.net/
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