welik.exe, new virus?

[Deadman Walkin]

I randomly got this virus (welik.exe) web browsing, and it seems to be quite the little bugger. None of the virus scanners (even online ones) seem to be able to get rid of it, and system restoring does nothing.

IE and Mozilla instantly crash when I try to start em up, and I CONSTANTLY get virus alarms ringing from Avast! Antivirus. Apparently it copies itself, making more Trojans and sends em off. I got about 8 Trojans in around 15 minutes, two at a time.

It seems pretty serious seeing as it seems to be "immune" to scanners, and that quite a few people already have it. Avast! continues to pick more and more trojans off, and for it only being around for a few days (estimated May 1, 2009) it is giving a lot of people including me headaches.

Anyone else got this, or know how to get rid of it (wiping the HDD is a last resort!)?

 

[Neonbob]

http://www.prevx.com/filenames/415409663888820591-X1/WELIK.EXE.html

http://www.windowsbbs.com/malware-virus-removal/announcements.html

I hope these help.

EDIT: Also try http://download.chip.eu/en/Malwarebytes_-Anti-Malware_3662215.html

 

[iJosh]

We had this too. We just got a new computer and got rid of the virused one.

 

[GRoXERs]

*snarky Linux/Mac comment here*

Man, sucks. Yeah, format C: is probably the last resort. Try any and everything else first.

 

[Gitsnik]

*snarky Linux/Mac comment here*

Man, sucks. Yeah, format C: is probably the last resort. Try any and everything else first.

don't think you're safe just because you use *nix. I nipped this one with bit defender and an ultimate boot CD combined, YMMV.

 

[Leorex]

*snarky Linux/Mac comment here*

Man, sucks. Yeah, format C: is probably the last resort. Try any and everything else first.

don't think you're safe just because you use *nix. I nipped this one with bit defender and an ultimate boot CD combined, YMMV.

like im clicking links in a thread about viruses.

 

[ThrobbingEgo]

*snarky Linux/Mac comment here*

Man, sucks. Yeah, format C: is probably the last resort. Try any and everything else first.

don't think you're safe just because you use *nix. I nipped this one with bit defender and an ultimate boot CD combined, YMMV.

That has nothing to do with linux desktop users. It's a virus that attacks BSD systems running Apache servers. It can only potentially be modified to attack a linux system running Apache and it'd be just as capable to attack OSX systems running Apache. [Whoops, I misread your post a bit. My 'nix comment still stands.]

Try doing a boot time scan in Avast.
Also, try a system restore. It shouldn't affect your personal files, just the windows system files.

 

[GRoXERs]

*snarky Linux/Mac comment here*

Man, sucks. Yeah, format C: is probably the last resort. Try any and everything else first.

don't think you're safe just because you use *nix. I nipped this one with bit defender and an ultimate boot CD combined, YMMV.

So, you're using a virus that requires me to give permission to install it through a program I don't even use and a virus that attacks an Apache server hole as examples of why I should be very, very afraid?

Oh dear, I just shat in my pants.

Laughing too hard, you see.

But yeah, that was a sarcastically snarky comment, meaning I wasn't being completely serious. Calm the hell down, and let's get this thread back on its rails.

 

[Bat Vader]

I would think that AVG would be able to get rid of it.

 

[Gitsnik]

*snarky Linux/Mac comment here*

Man, sucks. Yeah, format C: is probably the last resort. Try any and everything else first.

don't think you're safe just because you use *nix. I nipped this one with bit defender and an ultimate boot CD combined, YMMV.

So, you're using a virus that requires me to give permission to install it through a program I don't even use and a virus that attacks an Apache server hole as examples of why I should be very, very afraid?

Oh dear, I just shat in my pants.

Laughing too hard, you see.

But yeah, that was a sarcastically snarky comment, meaning I wasn't being completely serious. Calm the hell down, and let's get this thread back on its rails.

Don't worry I was laughing too. The links were meant to illustrate that *nix users have issues too. I don't want to go through my latest emails for all the Ubuntu Security Notices that are there, but there are quite a few and they crop up very regularly. The entire point of my comment was that your choice of snickering comment was fundamentally wrong, the only secure system is OpenBSD, and even those guys screw it up sometimes.

Side note: according to my network traffic logs (taken from an OpenBSD network tap) my windows xp machine has never once been owned in at least two years - a combination of Firefox, Adblock, and NoScript have kept my windows computer safe despite its use as a browse-the-underground-websites computer. The windows servers hosted elsewhere are another issue entirely though.

 

[GRoXERs]

Now see, that's doing it right ^^

Other people don't, though, and therein lies the problem.

 

[Marku]

We had this too. We just got a new computer and got rid of the virused one.

Only in America

 

[ViolentlyHappy91]

I would think that AVG would be able to get rid of it.

Errrr....no.
AVG while a decent Anti-Virus program, has nothing on Avast or Avira. I had AVG miss around 20 viruses and Trojans that avast picked up and removed. However Avast also missed a few which Avira picked up. If anything, AVG is good for taking up room, slowing your PC and protecting a PC not connected to the net.

 

[Abedeus]

We had this too. We just got a new computer and got rid of the virused one.

Next time you get an easily curable virus, let me know when you're throwing out the old one, so I can like, I dunno, remove the virus? Or in worst case format the disc.

 

[ThrobbingEgo]

We had this too. We just got a new computer and got rid of the virused one.

Next time you get an easily curable virus, let me know when you're throwing out the old one, so I can like, I dunno, remove the virus? Or in worst case format the disc.

Or install Ubuntu studio.

 

[Abedeus]

We had this too. We just got a new computer and got rid of the virused one.

Next time you get an easily curable virus, let me know when you're throwing out the old one, so I can like, I dunno, remove the virus? Or in worst case format the disc.

Or install Ubuntu studio.

No, I'd rather format the disc and later enjoy playing games.

 

[ThrobbingEgo]

I wasn't griefing Windows (apparently I'm one of the few people who like Vista) - I've just been itching to try out Cinelerra and my souped up Sager doesn't support Ubuntu. Well, vice versa.

Why can't there be a good, free, video editing utility for Windows?

 

[Gitsnik]

I wasn't griefing Windows (apparently I'm one of the few people who like Vista) - I've just been itching to try out Cinelerra and my souped up Sager doesn't support Ubuntu. Well, vice versa.

Why can't there be a good, free, video editing utility for Windows?

Have you ever tried out WAX, Avedit or anything with FFMpeg? They're just the tools I remember off the top of my head but I've seen them all on the windows machines the editors sometimes use.

Of course most of them actually use an OS X box so most of my prefs tend to go that way.

 

[Sevre]

Well if NOD32 can't get rid of it we're screwed.