I don’t recommend windows security or Kaspersky I got rootkit infections with both. I run free AVG and once a week scan with free Malwarebytes
What I’d like to know is why these types of companies are not shut down and the people put in jail.
Yeah, that one and a dozen just like them, self install when you visit an infected site. Depending on how they are configured, your anti virus MAY or may NOT detect them. They also use FAKE “close” and “X” buttons, so if you visit a bad site, and some pop up asks you if you REALLY want to leave, and you click YES, it uses that YES to install itself as if you authorized it. No windows anti virus can protect you from clicking the wrong thing. Only a Mac which doesn’t use the same code is immune from those web attacks. I browse ONLY on my Mac and use Bootcamp in a Virtual Machine for my few windows apps that I still MUST have. My Windows VM is NOT allowed on the net. The only safe way to surf. Good luck out there.
I too have been hit many times by the same thing. Please tell me...was this virus executable called ‘Antimalware Doctor’ ?
I’d really like to hear if the same thing as I’ve been dealing with. I get hit with it about once a week and I have to stop whatever I’m doing, re-start in safe mode and hunt it down and kill it, then reboot.
If your computer had an unpatched exploit (old Flash, QuickTime, Java, etc.), then it wouldn’t have mattered what security suite you had installed. Exploits get around your antivirus using programs you told your antivirus were already clean, in essence.
You need two things. First, download a free antivirus CD image and burn it (Avira, F-Secure, and BitDefender each offer one). Boot with it on the bad computer and let it clean your system. If one doesn’t find it, burn the next one.
Second, once your system is clean, download and run Secunia PSI, which is also free. Let it find your known exploitable unpatched stuff and then install the patches.
Now, I happen to think the rogue antivirus you got is one I’ve seen several times before under very slightly different names. Usually, you visit a URL from a search engine that has been infected and it passes you to a site that sends your computer to a fake but real looking antivirus screen, saying it is scanning your system, which then “finds” dozens of viruses you don’t have. If you don’t kill this browser popup successfully (which normally means turning off javascript or killing the browser’s process in Task Manager), you are presented with a screen that asks you “permission” to clean your system. You don’t want to do anything to that window. If you do, well, you are screwed. Did you notice something like this?
Anyway, get a blank CD or two and burn the ISO images (Avira also has a .EXE version that has a built-in burning program) and you will be fine once again.
I had the same thing. It’s the first virus I’ve ever gotten. I’m very careful about what I click and install, so I don’t know how this sucker got in there. I followed the directions on a website and also used malawarebytes and seem to be all good now.
I recommend you always have a copy of a Linux distro like Linux Mint (http://www.linuxmint.com/edition.php?id=32) in case you cannot access Windows. Never had to use it because of malware, but it can get on the web fast. Thank God.
I frequently image my OS drive, especially after major upgrades or additions.
And, I keep data on a separate drive/partition.
The few times I have run into problems, I just restore a previous ‘good’ OS image. I don’t have to reinstall programs, and my data is untouched on the data drive.
Plug-in USB drives are relatively inexpensive any more. No reason not to back up.
Last one I had I got rid of by using Super Anti Spyware. The trick was clicking on it’s icon and getting it to load before the fake virus program started. I then ran Super Anti Spyware, it found and removed the virus.
The exact same thing happened to me last month at a hotel in Chicago. I was doing a people search, trying to get a street address for a relative in Indiana, when I got a flash warning that my computer was being attacked. Then I started getting error messages that bogus files were infected. Long story short, I could not access any website except for the one selling Antivir virus protection for $59.95 for three months. Worse, I could not access any files, and I do all of my work on this laptop. After a bad experience with Vista and a failed installation of SP2 a while back, I had to revert to factory settings and re-install all my programs (I had performed a full backup to an external HD before the SP2 download). I had failed to reload Spybot and Ad-Aware and that’s how I think this invader got by my Trend Micro PC-cillin security. I finally figured out that I could activate a scan with PC-cillin on startup before the Antivir could load, and sure enough, there were no viruses found on my computer. I started in Safe Mode and did a System Restore to an earlier date and that fixed the problem for me.
I’ve used Spybot and Ad-Aware (both free programs) for years on this laptop and previous computers, and never had an issue like this - it was very scarey to have a website take over my computer like this. I agree, people behind these types of activity should be horsewhipped, if they cannot be prosecuted.
Heh...heh...free...you get what you pay for...
I haven’t had a virus or malware in 15 years. I use Norton.
However, I don’t visit porn sites nor download pirated software/movies eather....
Practice safe computing....
Super Anti-spyware, a free malware remover works very well. However if your computer is badly infected you might be prevented from running your anti-virus. AVG however makes a free anti-malware program that can run from a flash drive.
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