Imagine a rapist whose cock protrudes barbed spines into your tender flesh, locking him in place. That’s about how unwelcome and hard to purge this motherfucking virus is. Goddamn it!
Notes for disinfection:
Sorry, I can not agree with the OP, the creators of fake antivirus tools need to be summarily executed.
Ok, lets have a trial, but then off with their heads… 
Interesting. This may have been the one that bit me today. The really annoying thing is that I never consciously downloaded or installed anything. I was just browsing in Google Chrome when all hell broke loose. I am decidedly unimpressed that Chrome would allow my system to be pwned so easily(I’m also upset with myself for not thinking to install an anti-virus on my new system)
Edit: And for extra fun, I’ve signed into my online banking recently, so now I have to change my high-security password to something new.
I’m nowhere near that picky. I advocate the death penalty for all virus writers, all those who knowingly and maliciously spread viruses, and spammers.
NO, not “summary execution”. Let’s take a hint from the OP:
“Imagine a rapist whose cock protrudes barbed spines into your tender flesh, locking him in place.”
I’m sure we can work out a proper slow execution method based on that.
I got this while browsing using Google Chrome as well. It took awhile to get rid of and it was the first time in years that I felt a need for hijackthis, spybots&d, etc.
I had AVG installed but it did absolutely nothing to stop this.
I’ve recently put in a few rounds with viruses and other crap (on my mom’s computer–so far, knock silicon, my own defenses have apparently proven to be OK) and I’ve decided people who write malicious software should be used for medical research. Anybody who writes a virus (worm, Trojan, malware, etc.) designed to steal, or deliberately designed to destroy people’s data…
“What’s that you say, doc? You think you’ve got a cure for that nasty hemorrhagic fever from Madagascar? The one with the 87% fatality rate? Great! Let’s see–here we go; the author of the ‘URBoned27.exe’ Internet worm. We’ll just administer the injection, and now the new vaccine…Oooh, somebody get a mop! Nope–sorry doc, back to the drawing board! Oh, don’t worry–plenty more where he came from!”
I’m willing to be more reasonable if we’re just talking pranksters–people who write code that’s just designed to make your computer pop up a big window that says FOOLED YA! on April 1, but is not otherwise deliberately designed to cause actual loss or destruction. For those people, a few years researching a cure for the common cold should be sufficient.
Meh, Malwarebytes has taken care of this every time I have run into it so far. I’ve dealt with things that are much harder to remove. Usually I just say screw it and nuke the drive and start over again.
Though I do agree with GIGObuster on the treatment the malware/viri writers ought to be given. Actually I’d probably get a bit more medieval.
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Perfect! They should have to serve as medical research subjects for 150 years, or however long it takes for EVERYONE to remove the crap that they wrote from the affected computers, whichever is longer.
Last week I got hit by something that infected explorer.exe and Malwarebytes failed me for the first time. Combofix also failed. I wasted over an hour scanning my system with Avast and Malwarebytes and Combofix before I said the hell with it and reinstalled Windows. 20 minutes to install Windows plus 10 minutes to install my most used apps and my machine was good as new. I’m not going to waste my time trying to fix infections ever again.
I was attacked by System Tool2011 just yesterday. It happened shortly after clicking image links in Cafe Society. (For the record, it was the Jennifer Love Hewitt vs. Sarah Michelle Gellar poll, but I can’t know for sure if one of those websites was the source of the malware.)
I’m using Windows 7. With my free version of AVG oblivious to the attack, I restarted in Safe Mode, opened the Recovery program in Control Panel, and used a restore point from the day before. A few minutes later everything seemed back to normal. Then an AVG scan found a few bad files and deleted them.
This has worked a couple of other times in the past when a fake antivirus program took my computer hostage. I hate the thought of sifting through my registry as described in GIGObuster’s link above, but I’ve never had to take such a measure.
Have I left a bunch of vulnerabilities festering in the bowels of my computer? Is it really fixed or not?
I’ve never gotten a virus (probably because of the operating system I use, not because I am especially careful) and I always wonder exactly how this works. For those that were infected, how did it happen? Do you go to a webpage, and without warning, something bad happens to your system? Or did you see ahead of time a message of some sort saying that your browser was downloading a file, or a dialog box asking you “do you want to install and run this application”?
I was browsing through an image website when all of a sudden Avast anti-virus gave me a warning about some trojan attack. I was using Opera browser, which I though was supposed to be pretty secure. Maybe it was because I had javascript turned on.
This one. I suspect that a site served me an ad that had the malware embedded in it. The malware probably exploited a vulnerability in Acrobat Reader or Flash to get installed on my system(I suspect Reader or Flash because I doubt malware writers are bothering to exploit vulnerabilities in Chrome).
My SIL was infected with this virus on Christmas Eve. Upon reading some of the online advice, she found the file and simply renamed it. So far so good.
So far I’ve been virus free. I use a free anti-virus/anti-SPAM/firewall program that RoadRunner gives me for free (CA). I usually use IE8.
Of course, my computer is now so secure that I can’t download programs I WANT, either. It took me several days and about 15 attempts to finally download iTunes 10.1.1. I finally saved the file to my computer and then ran it from my hard drive vs. running it from the Apple site.
How come none of all these people getting these infections ever gets some politician running for office to back harsh punishments for these virus makers? Like mandatory 20 year terms and full jail time for juveniles too who often modify them and send out again. I never hear any such questions at any rally for those running, why don’t you get out there with a big campaign? I mean it worked getting drunk drivers punished, and kiddie porn,why not this?
I think every advanced virus is the work of a current or former Microsoft employee. Their windows was set up to do these kind of things all along, so Gates could steal info and sell and as people who worked there left or were let go, they started making these. Each patch is so big to close one backdoor that is out now and create a new one that will stay till it is out and then another, and on and on.
It would be a simple matter to stop most Mal-ware ads that are real ads by a large fine on the COMPANY ADVERTISING using ads with Mal-ware. Then they would drop such ad vendors, see? In ATMB it was mentioned State Farm even has a loud noisy ad, if you want this stopped unless an ad is actually clicked, then make a law with fines that will stop the practice. If the ads are from overseas, block the IP address till a fine is paid.
Don’t you dare tell me we can’t, last year Pakistan blocked U-tube from working from way over there and it even stopped it working in the USA, don’t tell me we don’t block foreign child porn sites either, you are just being lied to. Be at those news conferences asking why we don’t fix this problem with just the kind of laws we did for child porn. Laws do work if punishment is certain.
It makes me so angry when I get a scam bank ad or Ebay ad and 3 months later the link still works to the fake site fishing. Now imagine that for child porn or a threat to a politician site and see how quick that site is gone or blocked!!
Flash is inherently insecure. That’s why security conscious people run either adblock or flash block, and many even turn off Javascript for sites they don’t trust(using something like NoScript). I’ve gotten to the point where I install Firefox and Adblock on any PC I fix. And you know what? So far, no one has been reinfected.
And, Leon–Conspiracy theorist much? I’m sorry–neither Microsoft nor the U.S. government are that competent. The problem is the incompetence of Adobe. Microsoft’s Internet Explorer can actually be set up to be as secure as any other web browser nowadays–not that I’d recommend it.
Well Microsoft of course was caught by our intelligence community, and then claimed they were gathering info for the “police” to use, and that was the cover story all the way to now. The spy community liked the idea too of getting info, so that is why it was kept quiet. You can find references to some sort of package MS will sell to police to analyze computers.
I also think it could be proven about new flaws added by taking the latest patches claiming to fix computer takeovers and spying and try them on the early releases of Windows, most of the attack scenarios would not work, a few might because many doors were put in and all are not discovered but most were put in by later patches as a new door when another got out. The “service packs” cover this up well. They will tell you to have SP whatever before you can patch because there was not a problem before!
Yes there can be more than just MS in doing spying by now and I am sure there are, with the help of those former MS employees now at Adobe or where-ever.
Getting back on track, why not campaign for these laws, if MS really wanted to stop Malware they could have run a TV campaign to get such laws, ever think about that? They want the Malware around, just do not like it being discovered. That is why they began doing the malicious removal tool, to remove OTHERS bad stuff while leaving theirs intact, see?
You are a crazy person.
Well I guess we heard from a Microsoft employee…
I mean look at all that MS did at the beginning, the browser wars for instance. Why did they care? It was not sold separately so why care who uses another browser? Ahh, but so important if IE is needed to let infections in, for spying and that is JUST what we see. Now we know why they built in the browser too instead of selling it as a product, they wanted to just give away that, but never any other programs.
Think about that a little and it all fits together so well. But yes now many of the Malware ideas are out and being used by others, pass some tough laws and we could really stop this. Damaging a computer should be the same as committing arson, why does no one try to get the legislatures to pass such laws, just what is the downside, folks? If you are against me, why do you want these people to continue?
All this Adobe talk, I had heard Active-X was the original bad bad thing doing it (and MS creation) and Adobe just took it as a framework I would assume, probably with some former MS engineers at the helm. Same with Flash. The desire to steal overpowers these folks.