Posted on 06/10/2010 12:07:38 PM PDT by mimi from mi
Has anyone in the last week gotten a computer virus from Antispyware Soft? It was a real bear to get rid of. I picked it up over the past weekend, and wondered if I could have possibly gotten it from FR or perhaps the alternate FR site when FR was inoperative sometime over the weekend. When I typed Start/run/msconfig and went to the start menu, there was an item ending in tssd.exe which is the virus. Also in start/run/regedit, there was AV Soft and AV Suite. After many times, restarting and unchecking tssd.exe, and running Microsoft Security Essentials, I believe I now have it completely eliminated. Anyone else get this virus?
Sounds familiar.
Go to this website:
http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/virus-removal/remove-antivirus-pro-2010
It should get rid of it quick. Ok, it’s not that quick, but, let it run overnight.
Should do the trick.
If you catch the person distributing this, please arrange a firing squad. Arm them with bird shot...LOTS of bird shot. Let them shoot for a few days until the job is done.
I got that virus. I found some antivirus software at Walmart and it did the trick.
My home computer went to the shop this morning for the same thing. I picked it up two days ago. I couldn’t eradicate it. Also, I got the same virus on my work computer about a month ago. I now use the “NoScripts” add on for firefox, and haven’t been reinfected.
I got this, too. There is a site (I will look for it) that provides a remedy.
Got it on my home computer last Thursday. It has survived two reformats of my hard drive /reloads of all programs. I’m going to burn a cd of AVG’s rescue CD and see if that will wipe it since it is a virus that is called up when windows starts.
I have, and it is NASTY! It messes up whatever internet protection you have, and it interferes with the operating system big time. I was not able to open windows explorer, or operate other things like run:cmd or run: regedit. This bug will detect when you are downloading a tool to remove it, or any Windows security update, and shut down the download. Another nasty was when I declined to renew the “protection”, I got routed to porn sites. Accepting the “protection” routes the user to phishing sites.
I got rid of it using Malwarebytes. I downloaded the software with an uninfected computer, and stored it to a flash drive. I started the infected computer in the “Safe” mode, and installed the software. Ran the full scan, which took two hours, but it extracted the malware. You may have to either repair or re-install your legitimate internet protection software afterwards.
PC_AntiSpyware has apparently been lurking through a lot of discussion boards utilizing phpbb.
I really wish we could do something about people who do this stuff. Really seriously.
Firing squad? I’ve called for the offender getting a bath in napalm.
This thing is a pain is the neck. I also downloaded Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware Download Link to finally get rid of it.
We tried to get rid of it and could not. I took it to the shop, and they got rid of it, but the computer will have to be completely wiped and everything reloaded before it will work again. It will not go online at all, even though it says it is connected.
No problem here. Got a Mac.
Yeh, firing squad, bird shot wouldn’t kill them...but after a few days.
No doorstop talk here...we’re talking computers. :)
Anyway, this isn’t a computer virus. It is malware. A real nasty one.
>>>No doorstop talk here...we’re talking computers. :)
I have a computer that is working just fine.
Ping for later.
Different subject. Anyone else getting a redirector when clicking on links from a Google/Bing search? It's usually Wikipedia ( long story ) but I get it at other sites. Have plenty of anti spyware programs, none help. Last time I had a redirector Malwarebytes caught it. Not this time.
The secret on some of these is to not boot from Windows to fix it, unfortunately.
Avira’s free antivirus boot CD is updated several times a day with the freshest signatures. I’ve had one occasion that it didn’t come up with the right VGA settings to view the thing, though:
http://free-av.com/en/tools/12/avira_antivir_rescue_system.html
Also, this one is a reasonable fallback. It’s from F-Secure:
http://www.f-secure.com/linux-weblog/2009/09/22/rescue-cd-311/
If your system won’t allow the burn of the CD, use someone else’s computer. Also, be sure to either press F8 or F12 to get the alternate boot option from Windows or have your BIOS check if a bootable CD exists from which to boot.
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