mot*rf*ng virus

[docellis]

So somehow I got the "anti virus XP 2008" virus. It's a nasty one, you should google it.

I'm pretty sure it is recording my keystrokes and regenerating itself and it isn't totally gone yet

The beauty of this virus is apparently there are like, hundreds of people who actually PAID to get his virus, $50-$100 to GET this virus. It shows up with the windows logo and everything. Tells you that you have 42 trojans, malware etc whatever. That you need to pay x to register your version and get rid of them.

I learned this while I was googling "remove anti virus XP 2008".

I think it is recording my keystrokes because every 50th keystroke or so, is blank and I have to re-type it.

I removed everything I could from regedit and msconfig etc - and I am no longer getting the stupid "anti virus xp 2008" screen and I am no longer getting popups every freaking 20 seconds. But, I still can't google anything. I still can't access any webmail account.

It is my own stupid fault for not setting a restore point when I installed my new hard drive.

[expletive]

[dangerous]

ur drnk

[AdmiralKird]

I don't even mess with trying to pick viruses this malicious out of my system, best just to kill it with fire.

Take out your harddrive, put it in an external case, connect it to a mac or an old windows pc, copy your needed files, reformat harddrive, put harddrive back in computer, reinstall windows, install drivers, copy needed files back to harddrive.

It could be worse, you could have the same problem as me. My computer's motherboard has become cancer, and is attacking its own harddrives. It's been freezing up, randomly not seeing 1 out of the 5 harddrives inside, I disconnected the most troublesome drive, then it doesn't see another, disconnected the second one, and then it killed 4 sectors from another harddrive causing me 3 hours of having vista repair the drive. Thankfully, I didn't loose about 30 hours of work I had on it. I also just recently bought it another 2gigs of ram to bring the total to 4, thing flat out reject the additional sticks, f'n [expletive].

[cardsfansince82]

I used to get viruses all the time and I always had Norton and malware and adware programs etc, etc. My subscription ran out about six months ago and I didn't renew. I've been surfing the net without any sort of protection and haven't changed my browsing habits one bit and I haven't had a single problem.

[docellis]

I've had a computer most of my life. I've had high speed since it became available - which has to be at least 10 years. I've never encountered a serious virus and I've never had any type of antivirus software, ever. BUT I've always had system restore ready.

This is a serious virus.

I can't easily format my hard drive without buying a new operating system disc (and a bunch of other software).

[Arthur Dent]

Do you know how you got the virus? Was there a violation of the safe and approved policy?

[docellis]

Do you know how you got the virus? Was there a violation of the safe and approved policy?

It had to be downloading music - but it was pretty slick because I have no idea what I downloaded that it was attached to.

It won't let me access at a lot of my "safe and approved" stuff though. Sadistic virus.

Not being able to google things is driving me crazy.

[New Pagodi]

I can't easily format my hard drive without buying a new operating system disc (and a bunch of other software).

If you don't have a windows CD, you should be able to get a cheap OEM version of XP on EBay and then slipstream sp3 over it. Some of the used computer stores around here used to sell them too, but I don't know if they still do. (You can even set it up to bypass the windows activation with a little work).

Since you can't google, do you need someone to post the removal directions?

[TheoSqua]

post the issue on www.bleepingcomputer.com they have some really nice spyware / virus removal software (whos name escapes me)

they're really good at killing stuff like that htough.

[AdmiralKird]

Do you know how you got the virus? Was there a violation of the safe and approved policy?

It had to be downloading music - but it was pretty slick because I have no idea what I downloaded that it was attached to.

It was probably that ExtenZe email you clicked on.