Field

so i got some virus and it did a number of things to the computer

it put some new desktop that had some big warning box in the center of the screen saying 'WARNING YOUR COMPUTER IS INFECTED DOWNLOAD LATEST Something or other to get rid of it"

then theres some animation with bugs crawling on the screen if you point your mouse on it.

My firewall had been disabled.

My system restore points had been deleted.

at that point it seemed that was all it did. but i was concerned because i got it by clicking on a link to dowload when i was getting mp3s which allowed a virusto get in uncontested.

I had a disk with Spybot search and destroy on it. I ran spybot and did a scan withMcAffee. Spybot found a number of things. McAffee found nothing of course. so i got rid of the discovered items...

for one thing my internet browser still seems to load up slower than usual and web page browsing does seem slower.

then i noticed when playing games i would see a flucuating drop in framerate, so i leave the game and check out the performance graph and i see these cpu usage spikes from 20-50% i shut off the game and with no processes running the cpu graph was spiking up and down all over the place 20-50% over and over.

then now when i am on the internet these funny web pages will pop up out of nowhere once in a while

also ie been noticing keystroke errors for some odd reason like when i am typing sometimes a button will not register being pressed.



what exactly is this crap?

Turnoz

Sounds like a bad case of malware. Sometimes those virus + ad-ware scanners don't find em. I had that problem before...

Best thing to do is to back everything up and make sure nothing else but your files :P (wouldn't wanna take the virus/malware with you) and then reformat windows. That way you start fresh and clean (you will get better performance). There is also no chance of the virus carrying over (only place is through your back up).

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tris

Please run HijackThis (http://www.hijackthis.de/) and give us the output.....

Field

ok ill try the link below first off but then ill probly just try to reinstall windows if that doesnt work. thanks

Field

oh it also says i have some process called virtumonde.dll which apparently it sees as spyware. hmm

tris

There you go

onlycodered

Ouch. That's a horrible one to try to get rid of. I was able to get rid of it using the boot-time scan in Avast antivirus on my friend's PC.

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flushentitypacket

If you do reformat, here's what you should ALWAYS do FIRST. Nothing else!

1. Windows updates. DO NOT VISIT ANY OTHER WEBPAGE OR INSTALL ANY SOFTWARE. Software often has compatibility issues with un-updated Microsoft OS.

2. Antivirus software install. AVG free edition has never failed me yet in conjunction with Spybot. Careful installing more than one antivirus program, as often they read each other as threats and gum up your system. I've had no problems with Spybot/AVG though, since Spybot isn't a constantly-running program in the tray like most Antiviruses.

3. Firefox. Stops 50% of the viruses out there which are usually designed for IE.

4. Ad Block Plus and Adblock Filterset. Useful for even more than protecting your system! (you can block any ad or image that you deem annoying )

5. Do anything you want EXCEPT PRON. (Most likely driver installation)

Austiclees

A virus can only affect your pc the way that the current user can. Best posible solution to never get a virus...

With a clean, virus free, install of {insert M$ OS}, intall all Virus software and main programs that you want to use, i.e. M$ Office, Firefox, etc...

Then, name the ONLY admin account something weird like ButterflyPenutButter, or TapDancingJellyFish. Give it a cryptic password.

Create user accounts. One can be a test account, another can be the main account. Make sure that these accounts are only Users. You don't want them to have any permissions at all.

Remember, a virus only has the permissions of the user that dl it. So, if you are the Admin, you dl a virus, it can do ANYTHING. Mess up your registry, etc.

It can be annoying for a while, because you'll have to type in the password for everything, active x installs and stuff, but well worth it.

Let me know how it works out.

Good Luck.

flushentitypacket

Never heard of this method before. Sounds great. However, that would be too much of a hassle for my taste. But yeah, this sounds like a really foolproof way to keep away hijacking programs.