Help requested.

[Booze Zombie]

My computer has been heavily infected by a trojan of some sort, according to all three of the programs I use to defend my pc.

It is repeatadly opening up windows, telling me I have spyware and making programs crash. I am really stuck here.

 

[Booze Zombie]

Right, I've got Zone Alarm virus scan going right now. It's found two viruses...

 

[a7r0p05]

What trojan, or do you know?

I'd try any of the following, preferably in this order:

If you know what trojan it is, tell us and we may be able to help you
Spybot-Search and Destroy*
AVG Anti-virus*
Spyware Doctor**
Any other recommended Anti-virus programs
Reformat-LAST RESORT!

*-Free program
**-Free trial, but you must pay for the full version

 

[Booze Zombie]

I have almost all of those. Spybot kept removing it and it kept coming back, AVG removed some stuff but now it can't find any more stuff. Then Zone is now actually finding stuff.

I believe I downloaded this trojan whilst trying to obtain a media codec, if that helps. It's opening up invisable windows now and again and just plays the audio from movies.

 

[Seydaman]

What trojan, or do you know?

I'd try any of the following, preferably in this order:

If you know what trojan it is, tell us and we may be able to help you
Spybot-Search and Destroy*
AVG Anti-virus*
Spyware Doctor**
Any other recommended Anti-virus programs
Reformat-LAST RESORT!

*-Free program
**-Free trial, but you must pay for the full version

spyware doctor game my computer viruses , that was an epic fail

 

[bad rider]

Where did you pick this up, after a program install or web browsing or *web browising *
Oh and check recent downloads if you use limewire or etc.

Edit: By check I mean delete

 

[Booze Zombie]

I was trying to download a codec to play a .mkv file and I downloaded one and then I downloaded a second movie in .mkv, all seemed fine. I went to sleep, I wake up, my dad's restarted the computer and now everything's gone all wrong.

 

[bad rider]

I was trying to download a codec to play a .mkv file and I downloaded one and then I downloaded a second movie in .mkv, all seemed fine. I went to sleep, I wake up, my dad's restarted the computer and now everything's gone all wrong.

Have you deleated those files?

Oh yeah have you restarted your pc since then?

 

[Booze Zombie]

I just discovered 2 .mkv codecs lurking around in my temp folders, even though I cleared said temp folders.

This is looking pretty bad.

It seems to be a trojan that reproduces each time I restart my computer.

 

[bad rider]

BTW I suggest you save any important files to disk. Incase you got anything worse lurking about.
Also it may have dug into your bios if your unlucky.

 

[Aardvark]

I use SuperAntiSpyware [www.superantispyware.com]. Looks dodgy, but it clears up windowsantivirus2009 and all similar ones loaded from codecs in a jiff.

 

[Booze Zombie]

I get the feeling I'm gonna need to format and then burn my pc in the fires of Hades.

 

[a7r0p05]

What trojan, or do you know?

I'd try any of the following, preferably in this order:

If you know what trojan it is, tell us and we may be able to help you
Spybot-Search and Destroy*
AVG Anti-virus*
Spyware Doctor**
Any other recommended Anti-virus programs
Reformat-LAST RESORT!

*-Free program
**-Free trial, but you must pay for the full version

spyware doctor game my computer viruses , that was an epic fail

Did you get it legally? If not it may have been the uploader's fault.

 

[bad rider]

I get the feeling I'm gonna need to format and then burn my pc in the fires of Hades.

You get used to it. I've had a virus go into my motherboard twice, which then spread onto anything trying try to load an OS.

 

[Anarchemitis]

If it tells you the location of the infected file but neglects to do anything, go and delete the file yourself. Also take note of it so you can replace it.

 

[mokes310]

My computer has been heavily infected by a trojan of some sort, according to all three of the programs I use to defend my pc.

It is repeatadly opening up windows, telling me I have spyware and making programs crash. I am really stuck here.

Hmmm, that one sounds familiar. Does it bring up a picture with spiders or something walking over your screen, flash a big sign that tells you that your computer is infected, prompt you to click on a text box?

If it is what I think it is, the only option for me was to reboot my PC. The sneaky part about that virus was that it was self replicating, and every time you restarted your PC, it would replicate, change names and directory locations. Very sneaky, and a huge pain in the ass to get rid of.

Let me know if the above symptoms are what you're experiencing and I might be able to help pinpoint the virus.

 

[Dommyboy]

Reformating is for fools. If I reformat, its like admitting that the virus has won. Find what type of virus it is and find what program can stop it. SUPERAntiSpyware is on the best protection utilities available in my opinion. It has stopped many dangerous trojans and fixed many that other programs couldn't even find.

Bit more advice. If it is a trojan that crashes your computer; boot the computer up in safe mode and then load SUPERAntiSpyware so it won't crash.

 

[Knight Templar]

System restore maybe?