Help requested.

[Booze Zombie]

The virus appears to be of the self-replicating **** variety. It constantly assaults me with adverts whilst I browse, even at this very moment.

It also appears that it is inactive until I start up FireFox, at which point it goes psycho on my pasty white self.

I have spent roughly 10 hours attempting to remove it now, I'll give this one more day before I just take a magnet to my hardrive.

 

[Landslide]

This sounds very familiar. Go into File Explorer, and change the 'View' to Details. Tell me if you see what looks like textual advertisements in the fields where date and filesize should me.

 

[Booze Zombie]

I do believe I've discovered my solution and my problem.

http://www.megaleecher.net/Fixing_Trojan-Downloader.JS.Timul.cv

 

[jasoncyrus]

To be honest if its screwing your system up THAT much.

1. Wipe it. It won't take long to reformat and reinstall everything (two days at MOST)

2. Stop looking at dodgy sites.

3. Get a decent firewall and AV (like zonealarm and Avast. They works REALLY well together)

Also: For those who says reformatting is bad...they are idiots. Retards. Go put your computer away and don't touch it ever again as you are too stupid to be allowed to operate one.

Wiping will give him a FRESH INSTALL. Meaning no virus, no clutter, no mess. Everything gets sorted out. AND while hes reformatting he can set a partition up as a storage drive so that if his c: get infected again he doesn't have to back stuff up constantly. He can simply wipe the main partition and reinstall his basic programs and OS.

Once again, wiping is you're friend, those who deny this need to be banned from touching computers.

Yes while it is a pain in the ass to get everything back on it, with a self replicator its a guaranteed fix, end of story. Better to start afresh and kill it for sure than mess around with tools and never quite know.

 

[Booze Zombie]

I had discovered that is was not a self-replicator, is was a kind of... tracking beacon that allowed adware trojans a backdoor into my PC.

It was the spy sappin' my sentry, if you will.

 

[Kuweekee]

The virus appears to be of the self-replicating **** variety. It constantly assaults me with adverts whilst I browse, even at this very moment.

It also appears that it is inactive until I start up FireFox, at which point it goes psycho on my pasty white self.

I have spent roughly 10 hours attempting to remove it now, I'll give this one more day before I just take a magnet to my hardrive.

Then there's something you have to check. See if there's any alternate DNS servers setup in your LAN connection. This could cause these problems.

Also, for Antivirus I use Avast Antivirus, it seems to be one of the most reliable ones that i've seen so far, the only downside on that one is that when it's updating that it uses quite a lot of resources.

 

[Neosage]

[link]http://info.prevx.com/downloadprevx.asp[/link]

I dunno if you can still get a free trial, but I got this once (free trial) It is insanely thorough.

 

[odatnarat]

my anti-virus software cant remove the trojan downloader.. it deleted some trojan viruses but not the downloader..

huhu i have bit defender.. i updated it and not working still..

 

[Booze Zombie]

Oh my GOD! Help! I found out what this thing is, but I don't know what to do!

It's called Gadcom.exe and it's really, really well coded. God damn, this thing's like PC flu.

 

[Johnn Johnston]

I'm seconding System Restore. It works for me like a dream - just make sure that you won't lose any files.

You get to it as so; Start, Help and Support, then it should be under "Pick a task..." Choose a time before the virus hit, then restore and reboot the computer. Run anti-spyware afterwards just to be sure. If you can't find it, give me a shout.

 

[Booze Zombie]

No, you don't understand! This thing cripples system restore! It appears to have wiped my system restore data as well as having infested my registry and win32 folders.

 

[Johnn Johnston]

No, you don't understand! This thing cripples system restore! It appears to have wiped my system restore data as well as having infested my registry and win32 folders.

Crap. Check the relevant System32 folders to see if something is out of place or seems to be the virus. If you find anything, let us know before you delete anything. The last thing we want is to accidentally make you delete some of your major system files.

 

[jezz8me]

Try getting a small cheap hard drive and installing windows onto it and then booting from that hard drive. You could try to fix the other hard drive while running a non-infected version of windows or you could just copy over all you need and wipe your existing hard drive.

 

[moeroris]

http://www.oral8.cn/viruscom/viruscom_31930.html

This site has instructions for the removal of Gadcom.exe. Whether or not it actually works is beyond my ability to say. Best of luck.

 

[Sexual Harassment Panda]

A very nice way to destroy virus's is to run Linux(you can even get OS's that run from a disc now) and wipe it out from there as it won't be attatched to anything in that OS. But...if I were you I would definately format and start again.

 

[Caliostro]

Just a heads up: Next time you notice you have a virus like that, turn your internet off, go straight to your anti-virus and adware and try to purge your system as much as possible. That usually solves most "beacon" virus.

 

[Booze Zombie]

I have actually found a solution to this now, so if anyone else has a problem like this, you know the program to use.

I found this program in one of the forum posts on a Google search for Gadcom.exe, it's called Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware.
One thing, though. Sweep your pc with anti-virus and anti-spyware after you clear out the really nasty stuff, as I still found something called vundo lurking in my pc.