This one is an absolute B***H

Joined: Oct 04, 2005 Posts: 356 Location: Kent

There's a new virus (sort of) doing the rounds and its a real goodun.

Firstly this isnt a hoax - trust me i know having spent 3 hrs trying to retrieve my kid's uni work and my office trying to sort some numpty's PC

it comes as an attachment to emails (possibly greeting card or msg from DHL but maybe others) and also via peer to peer progs - msn/facebook/limewire(types)/hookey dvd or tv series downloads etc

its called Antivirus XP 2008 and its very clever - if you get a screen saying you have spyware etc dont click anything - try and save any info you have photos etc because our IT dept has had no sucess whatsoever in cleaning it. they tell me that EITHER WAY you need a reinstall but if you click anything at all it locks the PC up making it impossible to save any files.

i dont usually get involved in these things cos 99% of the time they're hoaxes - this one isnt - straight up

ElGordo

Joined: Jul 01, 2005 Posts: 518 Location: Watching You

there is a way to fix this my mums laptop caught this a little bit back and it bassicaly involved going into safe mode delting the programs files and registry entries and reloading in normal and removing it . i cant remeber exatly were to look cyrus gave me a page with instructions for getting rid of it and it worked.

Joined: Oct 04, 2005 Posts: 356 Location: Kent

I could REALLY handle a fix Cyrus/Mook

ElGordo

Posted: Thu Sep 04, 2008 7:26 pm

I got it and it basically took over my pc and took away the admin rights.

The only way I was able to fix it was to get somebody to wipe my pc and reinstall windows and everything.

It was an absolute nightmare trust me.

Whoever made this one is one sad m*****f****r.

Good luck I hope you get your stuff back.

Posted: Thu Sep 04, 2008 7:57 pm

This begs the question why?

Why do people go out there way to create such a virus, what do they gain from creating such a piece of coding? the answer = nothing! so why?

Certainly keeps companies like Norton in a job for sure. yeah, but if people didn't create viruses, we wouldnt need to add another problem layer to our operating systems.

Seriously, these 'people' need shot and done away with, simple as.

Joined: Jul 01, 2005 Posts: 518 Location: Watching You

nortan couldnt catch a virus if one came of and sat on its head if it had a head ofcourse Rolling Eyes

Community Founder Joined: Jun 30, 2005 Posts: 2627

So is this a virus that only XP can catch Question

can Vista stand up to it Exclamation

cheers
|2es-mrix

Joined: Oct 04, 2005 Posts: 356 Location: Kent

i think you're probably ok with vista as the name of the programe is Antivirus XP 2008 but tbh i'm not sure

btw i could still do with a fix from anyone if poss Crying or Very sad

ElGordo

Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2008 1:04 pm

Try here m8
http://forums.cnet.com/5208-6122_102-0.html?forumID=44&threadID=288404&messageID=2798241

Joined: Mar 30, 2006 Posts: 560 Location: wick

It also comes under the name (MS)antivirus, I know this as my bruv went on youtube when i was at work and when i came back he woz in a panic cause my machine woz beeping and yelling at him and guess wot he clicked (cant blame him i would of too), spoke to a mate who says he has had it and so have a good few of his clients and his advice was to download www.malwarebyte.org and also spyware seek and destroy.
Trying this now will update if this works guys.

Joined: Mar 30, 2006 Posts: 560 Location: wick

Ok just rebooted pc after doing scan and the malwarebytes.org thingie works, just ran full scan and the viris has gone also did spybot and scanned clean.

Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2008 3:40 pm

theres one doing the rounds for vista , its similar and you get a screen constantly on place of your ususal wall paper which tell you you need a new antivirus program and it hijacks vista , you cant remove the wall paper and if you click anywhere it goes to this website for this program , took me a re-install to get rid of it even though my daughter has avast and spyware docktor , so much for av programs !!

Joined: Jul 02, 2005 Posts: 1451

The only Anti virus i use nowadays is NOD32, takes up hardly any system resources and picks up everything (Viruses, Malware, Spyware, dodgy websites etc), before i was using avast but in comparison Avast is pretty crap.

NOD32 suite which also has a half decent software firewall + Disk keeper 2008 = Win.

If any of you are using Norton or Mcafee of any kind you need to be shot lol.

Joined: Jul 02, 2005 Posts: 1451

|2es-ElGordo wrote:

i think you're probably ok with vista as the name of the programe is Antivirus XP 2008 but tbh i'm not sure

btw i could still do with a fix from anyone if poss Crying or Very sad

ElGordo

Sorry elgordo, it was yoinks ago when i helped mook get rid of that, i don't even remember the website Sad

Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2008 6:42 pm

Only prob with nod32 is that it costs ;/