VIRUS ALERT!

[SleepsAnyWhere]

First thing I thought of.

OT: sorry, I got nothing.

Oh what? Blocked in my country/regon by Vevo due to copyright?
F**** you interwebs.

 

[Jast]

I've had a virus where if I was running a program that took up the entire screen it would minimize every five minutes.

 

[SleepsAnyWhere]

OP, that virus is more than picking appart your computer if you have what I think you have. It will download malware to your computer and use your computer to launch the virus at others (and that's why your computer gets slow). It corrupts multiple files in a way that allows it to rebuild itself if you find and remove the active copy. Often windows and 3rd party detection and monitoring programs are disabled.

You will need to recover from a clean backup or reformat that OS if you have what I think.

I concur sir,
Format all Drives and just reinstall OS, or even better get a better OS.
Just cutting you losses and playing it safe is the best option.

 

[Lyri]

I reformatted.

Job done.

 

[Skorpyo]

I just love the virus's that lock everything up, show you a bullshit anti-virus, and then make it impossible to do anything to counter-act it.

 

[Gxas]

Alright, so lemme start. My computer has a very crafty virus.

(If it's really tl, and you really dr, skip to "QUESTION:")

WARNING: NERDSPEAK INCOMING.

Every two weeks or so, it corrupts a different file in my WIN32. Not a crucial one, but it won't let me repair it. So I have to delete it. Not only does this effectively grind my computer to a screeching halt at random times, but it really is an inconvenience having to click "OK" on 5 different popups telling me that I "accidentally" deleted something along the lines of "FCXYZK.dll" or whatever every time my computer starts.

It's picking my computer apart.
Slowly.
FROM THE INSIDE.

Sounds to me like a rootkit. are you running windows xp? If so, I recommend combofix to sort that matter out (DO NOT USE COMBOFIX ON ANYTHING BUT WINDOWS XP! IT WILL CRASH YOUR SYSTEM). Malwarebytes is always a good backup from my experience. If those don't help, you could attempt to figure out how to use unhackme. I still haven't gotten it to work properly though.

 

[Ziadaine_v1legacy]

I'm currently infected with Tango Toolbar.

Avast can't pick it up and I got it through Malwarebytes.

Now I know what not to download in the future, what a load of hype.

MalwareBytes in safe mode, try that.

Worst I've had was that MSN virus that shuts it down. I got fooled by it as a friend and I went to the beach with her friends and took alot of pictures and the virus just HAPPENED to be the on that said "Hey check these photos out of us the other day"

Besides that, nope. Being an IT Technician though you see some pretty fucked up machines.

To the Topic Owner: Try running Malwarebytes AND Combofix IN SAFE MODE (start up the PC, spam-click F8 until you get a boot option and pick "Safe Mode with Networking") if you're running Windows XP. any other Windows then use just Malwarebytes in safe mode.

 

[Hisshiss]

I had to deal with this friggin virus that constantly tried to force me to buy a security program that I honestly don't even know if it was real, but it constantly asked me to buy it, over, and over, and over, every 10 seconds and telling me "YOUR COMPUTER IS INFECTED" ***** *****, moan moan. XD.

 

[Betancore]

I haven't had a particularly interesting virus. Most of the time I can deal with them. If not...reinstall Windows! So much fun. I have a friend who wants to make something that just plays Caramelldansen non-stop. He's planning to put it on a USB, and every computer you plug it into will be infected. Sounds like hell. I'm glad he's my friend, and not someone who hates me. >.>

 

[demoman_chaos]

I once had one that would shutdown the computer whenever I started MSConfig, twas rather irritating.

But I have switched to Linux and now I don't have to worry about viruses.

Ooh a follower of Tux! Pray tell kind sir, what be your distro?

Currently I dual boot PC Linux OS and Windows XP. I've used Sidux and Opensuse on my laptop before, but they didn't like my wireless card too well and I'd have to reboot a time or two for it to detect it.

 

[Daniel_Rosamilia]

Um, on my old Windows PC (ow a proud owner of a Macbook Pro) I used to be SWARMED by viruses.
No idea where they came from except one (RECYCLER), which made infinite loops to My Documents IN My Documents.
Oh, it also broke in to my rundll32 file and broke it.
Virus protection MY ARSE.

AVG and the other one (I forgot the name) couldn't pick it up, so I had to totally qipe it and restore the OS (hard to do without a CD drive)

 

[Tsunimo]

I had one not long ago that pretended to be antivirus software, and wouldn't let me up anything saying it was infected.
I had to find the file, run my comp. in safe mode, and use Malware Bytes' File assassin feature to get rid of the fucker

 

[Kaboose the Moose]

I once had one that would shutdown the computer whenever I started MSConfig, twas rather irritating.

But I have switched to Linux and now I don't have to worry about viruses.

Ooh a follower of Tux! Pray tell kind sir, what be your distro?

Currently I dual boot PC Linux OS and Windows XP. I've used Sidux and Opensuse on my laptop before, but they didn't like my wireless card too well and I'd have to reboot a time or two for it to detect it.

I feel your pain, I use to run opensuse on my lappy and it didn't like Flash too well nor did it like my optical drives. Though Linux Mint Isodora (Mint v9 I think) is virtually trouble free for hardware detection and then some. It's probably the most user friendly distro this side of Ubuntu.

 

[Why do I care]

Before I say this please don't spam hate about it

IM A MAC

We don't get viruses. So not really my problem.

 

[WOPR]

most annoying one I got inta-gibbed my computer

I got it's pop-up then 3 more pop-ups
they couldn't be removed because they had multiplied and renamed

then the computer crashed and would not turn back on
it would say loading then go into an infinite loop

took $80 to fix it but was WELL worth it

I am now paranoid and scan about 5 times a day for trackers and do a full scan once a night

good news is, sense that incident I haven't gotten a SINGLE virus!!

 

[demoman_chaos]

I feel your pain, I use to run opensuse on my lappy and it didn't like Flash too well nor did it like my optical drives. Though Linux Mint Isodora (Mint v9 I think) is virtually trouble free for hardware detection and then some. It's probably the most user friendly distro this side of Ubuntu.

Ubuntu didn't like my wireless either. A friend let me try his Live CD and it didn't detect it. My laptop has an odd wireless card, I guess.

I haven't fiddle with Mint much. Once I get some CD's I may try it out. Can't hurt.

 

[Wardnath]

MalwareBytes in safe mode, try that.

As I said, Malwarebytes is the very reason I've got it.

I've RUN safe mode AND run Malwarebytes and found nothing.

Still, it's somewhat benign, from the looks of it. Doesn't slow down anything, doesn't crash anything, it's just... there, just really hard to get rid of, that'd be it.

Edit: System Restore never, ever works for me, before you say it.

 

[Cain_Zeros]

(I use Avast, MSE and Malwarebytes soon to get AVG back)

Running multiple antivirus programs is bad. They conflict, and that can cause huge problems. They occasionally think files the others need to run are viruses. Not to mention it's just an unnecessary waste of drive space...

OT:I've actually been pretty lucky, worst I've had is an annoying little thing that would redirect any links clicked on a Google search to random other websites (likely from a list programed into the virus). I forget how I dealt with it, but it was dealt with.

 

[Shadowfaze]

I got a malware called 'spyaxe' on my old pc. It got so bad in the end the repairman said just buy a new pc, because i'll need £400+ to fix this. I got it from a fake site