edge Posted November 11, 2008 Share Posted November 11, 2008 Well first time for a long time ive got anything malicious on any of my computers. I use avg anti virus and spybot but last night looking for some info on car mods my laptop decided to shut down, I thought i may have hit the off button by mistake as i just moved it. Well now i have "antivirus pro 2009" which is very malicious and causing me a right headache. Its disabled all my antivirus and spyware but lets its run in the background. Ive tried downloading new spyware but it does the same to them and stops them from updating via the net. I would love to just have a few minuts in a room with the spotty little tw4ts who think its great to create these programs that cause nothing but alot of hassle. Anyone got any ideas as im searching all the keys and stopping processes and it just wont give up. Ive only got a few bits on the computer that i want to keep but worried if it will get transfered back through the files i want to keep. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VIL Posted November 11, 2008 Share Posted November 11, 2008 You might want to look at the McAfee 'Stinger' which is a one off removal tool to get rid of the most popular viruses and malware. May be worth a shot (and its free ): http://vil.nai.com/vil/stinger/default.aspx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gerry Posted November 11, 2008 Share Posted November 11, 2008 I had a similar problem last week including stopping AVG from downloading. I searched and found this which did the trick: http://www.download.com/Malwarebytes-Anti-Malware/3000-8022_4-10804572.html Found it and killed it (and another couple as well). Free and quick to download - hope it works for you. I did have to delete & re-install AVG, but no problems now Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edge Posted November 11, 2008 Author Share Posted November 11, 2008 Thanks guys. Well i have tried all of the above with no joy. Im just trying the rogue remover but that keeps closing svchost which in turn shits the computer down Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dragonball Posted November 11, 2008 Share Posted November 11, 2008 I had a similar problem last week including stopping AVG from downloading. I searched and found this which did the trick: http://www.download.com/Malwarebytes-Anti-Malware/3000-8022_4-10804572.html Found it and killed it (and another couple as well). Free and quick to download - hope it works for you. I did have to delete & re-install AVG, but no problems now Had to restore after opening a dodgy file from my brother a couple of days ago Stopped me getting on the computer without administrator rights Thanks for that mate - duly downloaded and found over 250 malware including three trojan injected files!! Thanks McAfee (NOT!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted November 11, 2008 Share Posted November 11, 2008 ESET NOD32 - costs very little, works very very well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nathman Posted November 11, 2008 Share Posted November 11, 2008 I had a nasty anti spyware virus infect my computer a few weeks ago. Everything I tried to download to remove it was blocked by the virus when downloaded through IE or Firefox. I have been trying Google Chrome, so I tried to download a remedy using that and it downloaded fine without the virus trying to block it. Might be worth a try:) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
benkei Posted November 12, 2008 Share Posted November 12, 2008 I have a similar problem. Sometimes my internet freezes, then i ge tthe blue screen of death. Comp then boots back up and is fine for a while, then happens again. also firefox keeps crashing all of a sudden! Something nasty going around? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Konrad Posted November 12, 2008 Share Posted November 12, 2008 Online scanner from f-secure is healing it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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