Need help with viruses.

[1pLUs44]

We have viruses on our computer. They dont really seem to be ON our computer, as AVG wont get rid of them because it says that they arent on there. But when we open up Internet Explorer, they start popping up with the 'zOMG! ATTENTION, YOU GOT VIRUSES, DOWNLOAD OUR VIRUSES TO GET RID OF THEIRS, OTHERWISE, WE'LL KEEP POPPING UP TO PISS YOU OFF!11!!!!!111!!'


Which, as you know gets annoying. I'm running IE with 'Add - Ons Disabled' which I assume means I cannot download Mozilla Firefox, but I'll still give it a try.

[Ghosth]

Lose IE, get firefox.

You don't have virus's, you have web sites or malware trying to scare you into buying their product.

Firefox can quickly be setup so that web pages can't start programs, open new windows, & pull all that crap.

[Skuzzy]

IE can also be configured to deal with it as well.  Just FYI.

Ghosth is correct.  Those are just activex popups trying to scare you into clicking on those links, and then your computer will have real viruses after that.

[1pLUs44]

Yea, I just busted my butt for the past hour trying to download it. I have Mozilla Firefox now. Because of my security settings that would allow me to get places w/o popups, I couldn't download it.

But I got it downloaded now


Thnx. I really need to check my Email.

(It was wierd, because we never had this type of trouble before. But Oh well. fixed!.)

[NHawk]

If it starts up again, look up Vundo. Most Virus detectors don't detect it, nor can they remove it easily.

Symantec Security Response

This one removes it automatically...
VundoFix by Atribune

I would do it anyway because it's sitting and lurking on your system.

[Hungry]

and if Vundo doesnt get it look up SDFix

[MrRiplEy[H]]

Try running the eset online scanner, it's free and quite effective. http://www.eset.com/onlinescan/

Needs IE and activex. Scary example in itself what IE can do with your system.

[DREDIOCK]

Also try changing your homepage.
It may have been changed to a site that gives you the popups.
Used to happen to me sometimes when I used to use IE alot

[Denholm]

Sorry for another suggestion. Here's a scanner that will probably find that malware:

Spybot Search & Destroy: http://www.download.com/Spybot-Search-Destroy/3000-8022_4-10122137.html?tag=mncol&cdlPid=10861988

I enjoy it since it found an actual virus, trojan horse, and some spyware / malware that neither NOD32 nor Ad-Aware 2008 Pro could locate.

[humble]

and if Vundo doesnt get it look up SDFix

Yup SDfix is an outstanding product....
[urlhttp://downloads.andymanchesta.com/removaltools/sdfix.exe[/url]

[1pLUs44]

Sorry for another suggestion. Here's a scanner that will probably find that malware:

Spybot Search & Destroy: http://www.download.com/Spybot-Search-Destroy/3000-8022_4-10122137.html?tag=mncol&cdlPid=10861988

I enjoy it since it found an actual virus, trojan horse, and some spyware / malware that neither NOD32 nor Ad-Aware 2008 Pro could locate.

SpyBot is okay, but it isn't nearly as good or effecient as AVG. I used to use Spybot, but it could never find anything more than 1 or 2 viruses, then I got AVG which found like 30 or 40 that had been on our computer for over a year, and it got rid of them all. And it was the free version. 

[Denholm]

Spybot is Anti-Spyware, not Anti-Virus. For AV I recommend NOD32.

[007Rusty]

 

[guncrasher]

I just found a trojan virus (horse), it disabled my firewall (mcafee) and it messed it up my computer pretty bad to the point I had to reinstall everything. however when reinstalling back to original I kept on finding the same virus.  I finally figure out that the virus was attached to my att&t yahoo dsl installation cd.  I know this cd didnt have this virus when I first installed my dsl.  Now my question is I always thought that installation cd's were read only and you could not write to them.  but how did it get infected with this virus? mcafree can only detect this virus but not remove it from the installation cd.  I also have just bought about 3 weeks ago an x52 and just found that this cd also has a adware-url.gen program is this a program that normally comes with x52 installation cd?  thanks

[Skuzzy]

It is physically impossible for a CD to be contaminated with a virus, unless all the following conditions are true.

1)  You placed the CD into a CD/DVD burner.
2)  The CD is a Read/Write CD that has multi-session enabled.

Now, production CD's will never match number 2, making it impossible for a program to be added to the CD, after the fact.

When you re-installed the operating system, did you format the hard drive?  Making a new file system does not actually wipe out the data, maling it possible for a virus to restart after re-installing the operating system, if the virus was plabted on a part of the hard drive the operating system will not write to.  This is a more likely scenario.