Rooster_Ties Posted September 2, 2009 Report Share Posted September 2, 2009 (edited) Damn, got hit by a nasty virus on the home PC. When you bring up the computer (even in safe mode), it won't let you run any executable that is a virus checker (and it appears to know the names of most of them). Renaming your virus checker(s) before you run them is supposed to be part of the solution, but I haven't been able to get that to work. Damn thing makes it look like you don't have access to files on your own hard drive (though you can run other .exe files just fine, like Adobe and MS Word). Makes your CD-ROM drive invisible, and/or non-functional. Scrambles your browser. NASTY, NASTY creature. I was running Malwarebytes, Avast, and SUPERAntiSpyware -- all three of them -- and it still got me. Keeps trying to run some phantom (rogue) anti-virus software, which I'm just sure is really malicious (something I've never installed, or heard of). Keeps trying to install, over and over, claims it's finding some other virus, tries to get you to press "OK" buttons to kill the other (phantom) virus, when I’m just sure doing so will as likely wipe my hard-drive as anything -- brings up windows with limited options (neither one sounding good), with no red 'x' to close the window, so you're forced to take one of their bad options (time to reboot). The PC is going into a specialist just as soon as I can find my original Win XP discs to boot from (maybe tomorrow, probably this week). UGLY, UGLY, UGLY. I’ve recovered from other viruses before (viri?), but this son of a bitch is the worst one yet, by far. Limited to e-mail and browsing from work for the moment (yeah, I ran by work this late, just to check e-mail). Will probably be off-line a lot more often than not for (hopefully only) a little while, knock on wood. It's called chin09.win -- avoid it like the plague. Edited September 2, 2009 by Rooster_Ties Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jazzmoose Posted September 2, 2009 Report Share Posted September 2, 2009 I'm not sure if this is the one that got me or not; I just got my computer back from the shop today. Whatever had me was a fake antivirus program as well, and the more I tried to get rid of it, the worse it got. I'd never had something that was so bad that it wiped out all my prior restore points in system restore. The tech had to just wipe everything out and reload the software, so I lost all my bookmarks, pictures, etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Alfredson Posted September 2, 2009 Report Share Posted September 2, 2009 The tech had to just wipe everything out and reload the software, so I lost all my bookmarks, pictures, etc. Hope you didn't pay him much; shit you could've done that yourself! Seems like he could've saved your "document" files like pics and such. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jazzmoose Posted September 2, 2009 Report Share Posted September 2, 2009 I paid too much, probably, as much as I tried, I couldn't do it myself. Heck, I tried, believe me. I've been through this a time or two, but this time I couldn't get anything to work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Storer Posted September 2, 2009 Report Share Posted September 2, 2009 There's a site that is invaluable for situations like this: www.bleepingcomputer.com. The people at this site are guardian angels, I swear. They're very serious and tell you exactly what to do, step by step. It usually involves downloading specific antivirus or antimalware programs if you don't already have them, then sending them the log files with results of scans. They take you through steps in exhaustive detail until you've killed the virus dead. For a thing like this, be ready to spend a weekend working with them on it. I've used their services--it's free of charge--twice, each for exactly this kind of desperate infection. I was so grateful that I donated money. Seriously, they're lifesavers. Well worth trying. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jostber Posted September 2, 2009 Report Share Posted September 2, 2009 (edited) The eternal solution: http://www.opensuse.org/en/ Another Linux solution is to burn a CD with Knoppix: http://www.knoppix.net/ A long instruction for restoring Windows with Knoppix here: http://aferromagneticdomain.wordpress.com/...-using-knoppix/ Or you can use the ClamAv Live CD: http://www.volatileminds.net/projects/clamav/tutorial.html Or Trinity Live RescueKit: http://trinityhome.org/Home/index.php?wpid...amp;front_id=12 Edited September 2, 2009 by jostber Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Use3D Posted September 7, 2009 Report Share Posted September 7, 2009 Fixed a similar instance a few weeks ago. Took only 2 hours. The trick is to not use anything Windows related to fix Windows. To save time, these 'techs' will almost always just wipe your whole system. It's pathetic but they're literally told to approach any real problem with this method. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted September 9, 2009 Report Share Posted September 9, 2009 Outcome? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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