Topic: Virus/Tojan Help Please!!!

[Malc.]

My PC has become infected with a browser redirect trojan/virus, that I can not find or remove. I have tried Malwarebytes and my McAfee Anti-Virus and Spybot-SD but am still unable to get rid of this nasty little buggar.

The trojan/virus is randomly opening pages to sites I haven't asked for following a search on Yahoo or Google. Occasionally, I also get a new page open on its own that seems to transfer to a series of about 3 or 4 adserv/malware sites.

This is all following an attack I had last week that installed Anti-Malware Doctor, which I have managed to remove along with various changes to sytem32\drivers\etc\

Any help at all in removing the this will be gratefully received.

[commis]

Hi

Sorry to hear about that, had a similar problem a week ago. Just bit the bullet in the end and bought AVG internet security.

Regards

[Secret Santa]

Axe try Microsoft's free AV canner: http://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials/

It's getting some good reviews and, well, it's free!

[Willyeckerslike]

Hi Axe

you could try a free trial of an internet security program.
the top one is norton 360 free for 90 days and the second one is nod32.  hope it helps

http://www.symantecstore.com/dr/sat1/ec_main.entry25?page=1582AIndexPage&client=Symantec&sid=37771&cid=273172&CUR=840&DSP=&PGRP=0&ABCODE=&CACHE_ID=273172
or
http://www.eset.com/download/free-trial/international
 or
http://www.bitdefender.co.uk/site/Downloads/
or
http://www.avg.com/gb-en/download-trial

good luck

[Malc.]

Commis, AVG is good but I have McAfee as part of my Internet subscription.

Thanks SS, i'll take a look at it. I am a little concerned though, as both Malwarebytes and McAfee forums are struggling to remove this new version of the TDL3 Rootkit.

[commis]

Hi

It was one of the free copys that the virus went for so please be carefull.

Regards

[Malc.]

Will, I am running a scan with ESET as we speak, it hasn't found anything as yet.

[Malc.]

Commis, thanks, I am treading very carefully.

[George]

I've given up on trying to remove the occasional virus, trojan or any other serious PC problem. I don't trust any of the anti-virus or security programs to stop the PC getting infected in the first place, or to remove anything which does get through.

So all I do, is revert to a backup copy of Windows and all my other main programmes. I do this once or twice a year and am back in business within a few minutes.

Moreover, I deleted AVG and other 'security' products. The PC runs faster without them, and the incidence of problems (suspected virus or trojan) has gone DOWN. I think all those security programmes are a bit of a con.

[Malc.]

Oddly enough, I think there is a small amount of sense to your comments George. Alot of modern virus/trojan's are designed to attack or avoid specific files. I've been reading about my virus and it seems that it often manifests in Java updates and Adobe Reader!

ESET is about to finish the scan and has found 2 trojan's where the rest have failed. I have removed all traces of Java and Adobe and following a cleaning process that I have found on the Malwarebytes forum.

I would suggest that you use a form of virus detection as some can be very agressive indeed. A friend of mine lost his hard drive due to a virus. I have also read today, that it is possible to permanently loose your OS, without any hope of recovery.

Scary stuff!