It seems impossible to get rid of. Any ideas?
Best tool for the job.
One of our machines got this one, after three days of fighting it I gave up and reinstalled Windows. I tried virtumonde.net, spybot, mcafee, trend micro, hijack this and some others nothing was a permanent fix. Maybe you’ll have better luck than I did.
Whoever created this should be fed to fire ants.
malwarebytes cleaned my parents system of virtumonde in one try just last week. At least AFAICT (that is, Adaware stopped picking it up).
Seriously. I could get behind the death penalty for guys like these.
Wiki says they are from South America. So their chances of facing justice are about as great as if they were from Romania. Yay third world!
Trying it now.
I managed to get rid of it once, but I tried so many tools that unfortunately I can’t tell which one eventually worked. But there is hope.
You should probably try to post on one of these boards who specialize in helping people getting rid of viruses, like http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/ They seem to be very good at it.
I wish you all the luck in the world. I tried umpteen “sure fixes” for it over weeks of trying, and none of them worked. Me, Fierra, and two other people, one of them an honest IT expert could not clean 2 PCs, and finally the only thing left was a reformat.
I cannot for the life of me understand how Microsoft themselves cannot make a fix for it. Did they or did they not write the fucking OS?
The problem is, half of the places that are promising to help are crooks themselves that just want to pile on. Seriously. Death Penalty.
Seems that Malwarebytes did the trick. Like clairobscur, I have been throwing everything at it though. Got rid of a few other things too. System even seems speedier! Thanks.
Another malwarebytes satisfied user here.
Still wrestling with it though. malwarebytes got rid of MOST of it, but AVG is still flagging something as I run Windows Defender, so it is not all gone. Will fire another salvo!
I am writing a diary if the battle. If you see it here, it means I won, somehow, and you will know how. Wish me luck. I think I am close to quashing this roach.
And go to my new thread, here, where I propose, in this age of terabyte hard drives, a scheme.
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There is a variant of Vundo/Virtumonde floating around that MalWareBytes will not remove completely. I had that version recently, but was able to take care of it.
Some of these virus hide inside system restore files, or volume information files.