Need help with a virus/worm.

[Pebkio]

Actually you could change that attitude a little. People are trying to help you here. It's not nice to treat them with Big Cake o' Irony just like that...

Fine, I'll try to be nicer. But it IS hard to stay friendly in a thread where most people just insult me and then demand that I use a program that's mainly not fixed anything and caused me problems. And then he assumed I went and got an imitation... as if I downloaded it from rapidshare or something.

It's like the assumption everyone has been making that I don't occasionally look into AV programs. So, okay, hold on...

You know what, screw it. You don't want help or advice if it contradicts with anything you've said in the thread. I was making an observation based on what I know about malware scanning programs and what information you've given us. And no, MBAM doesn't do that, and I haven't seen any AV do that to me. Go be a douche to someone else

I'm sorry, MysticToast, for getting angry at you and treating you the way I did. I will make serious, respectful, commentary about what you've just said. As a technicality, what you made was an assumption, not an observation. Maybe, and this is just a suggestion, you could refrain from assuming that anyone would be the type of person who would download the first program on filestube that had Malwarebytes on the name. I'm going to have to disagree with you directly, and I'm sorry for that, but MBAM does indeed offer a trial period of two weeks. Also, there are, in fact, a lot of AV, as well as other, free programs that offer a trial service, including much of NCH software suite and even winrar.

 

[JesterRaiin]

Actually you could change that attitude a little. People are trying to help you here. It's not nice to treat them with Big Cake o' Irony just like that...

Fine, I'll try to be nicer.

When people are pissing you off...
http://www.richard-bell.co.uk/images/poster/dubstep.jpg

 

[MysticToast]

Actually you could change that attitude a little. People are trying to help you here. It's not nice to treat them with Big Cake o' Irony just like that...

Fine, I'll try to be nicer. But it IS hard to stay friendly in a thread where most people just insult me and then demand that I use a program that's mainly not fixed anything and caused me problems. And then he assumed I went and got an imitation... as if I downloaded it from rapidshare or something.

It's like the assumption everyone has been making that I don't occasionally look into AV programs. So, okay, hold on...

You know what, screw it. You don't want help or advice if it contradicts with anything you've said in the thread. I was making an observation based on what I know about malware scanning programs and what information you've given us. And no, MBAM doesn't do that, and I haven't seen any AV do that to me. Go be a douche to someone else

I'm sorry, MysticToast, for getting angry at you and treating you the way I did. I will make serious, respectful, commentary about what you've just said. As a technicality, what you made was an assumption, not an observation. Maybe, and this is just a suggestion, you could refrain from assuming that anyone would be the type of person who would download the first program on filestube that had Malwarebytes on the name. I'm going to have to disagree with you directly, and I'm sorry for that, but MBAM does indeed offer a trial period of two weeks. Also, there are, in fact, a lot of AV, as well as other, free programs that offer a trial service, including much of NCH software suite and even winrar.

You're correct. I did make an assumption. Thank you for showing you have a calmer side, it makes it easier for people to offer advice. Also thank you for correcting me on the trial. I must not have noticed the trial on MBAM because I've just been using it for so long. That's good to know.

 

[MRMIdAS2k]

Snip

Okay so, time for another story:

Once upon a time I decided to listen to people who had no idea how to actually do anything. Several of them gushed about this program... called Malwarebytes. So that's the program I got, installed and used. This program did indeed find a few registry entries and a file that was causing my settings to change back to a weak default, as well as ads to appear in paragraphs. Those are indeed gone (although I had to delete the file, MB wouldn't do it itself). But on this day, it was reinforced that none of you know much about the program you blindly follow. For now popups are severely frequent. After several hours, I found that MalwareBytes was constantly using my CPU to set up it's constant "protection", a good 75% of my CPU... constantly.

It then pretended to close when I told it to, and when I used task manager to end it's drain on my system, it proceeded to crash both task manager and explorer.exe, so I could no longer do anything. After a restart, I told Windows to no longer load it at startup and restarted a second time. Now here's where the twist is, kiddos, because it still has a script hiding in my registry to open anyway, and I still can't end it, because it'll just hose my system again.

Now, here we have everyone's favorite program... and it's WORSE THAN THE VIRUS I NEEDED TO GET RID OF! I'm going to have to hunt this thing like a virus, and it'll probably take safe mode to get it cleared off my system. See, now instead of my story from over five years ago, I now have this one as a good, very good, reason not to trust any programs you barf at me. Thanks. I wish I could've quoted every single one of you so you'd get this as a message. But I just had to choose the most insulting of you.

first off, unless you're running a 233 there is no way in hell Malwarebytes is using 75% of your processor.

second of all, most virus' come with a re-installer, to put back what other programs delete, in this case, scan in safe mode.

thirdly, once you've got your computer clean, possibly after a re-install, try malwarebytes again. it won't act the way you've described, I guarantee it.