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Virus disguised as an "Anti-virus"
Somehow I've contracted a virus onto my computer, of which, seems pretty impossible to get rid of.
It's very similar to a new trend of virus making, of which appear as a pop-up advertisement soliciting the premise that such "Anti-virus" has detected viruses on my computer, and to "click here" to remove such viruses now. Upon clicking "remove viruses now", such make-believe Anti-virus actually installed the virus onto my computer disguised as an anti-virus software. It has been so far impossible to get rid of, as it won't allow me to open my AVG anti-virus remover. It also prevents me from opening up the "Add/Remove Programs" within Control Panel. I've tried searching thru sections where viruses typically hide, such as System 32, and Programs, although, the Anti-virus virus, is not installed in any folder named Anti-virus such and such, and upon trying to click open any questionable file(s) which may contain the virus, or even merely trying to delete such questonable file(s), doesn't allow me to do either. It also doesn't allow me to open Threatfire of CCleaner programs, to get rid of it. I downloaded several Anti-virus software programs onto a USB flash drive using another computer, including F-Prot, Panda, MacAfee, CCleaner, Threatfire, etc., and tried opening these Antivirus removers from the external flash drive, which wouldn't allow me to do either. Lastly, I tried reinstalling a copy of Win XP, and itwouldn't allow me to open "Setup" from "My Computer" to start the reinstallation, in hoping to get rid of the virus in this manner, although the copy of Win XP did not have the Autorun feature. The only two things I haven't tried is reinstalling Win XP using an Original which has Autorun feature, of which I don't have; or installing Win XP onto another Hard Drive, maybe along with those Antivirus removers I put on the flash drive, and then installing the other Hard drive with Win XP within the computer, probably set as "Master" jumper setting, and change the Hard drive with the virus to "Slave" jumper setting; start the computer with the other fresh hard drive, and try running the Anti-virus softwares from one hard drive to the other. Is anybody familiar with trying these methods, or has another method for removing such virus? Last edited by johntamrhein; January 5th, 2010 at 11:43 AM. |
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