contracted a virus....

[skunksmash]

Hi all....... 2 nights ago i was at my machine sitting on this forum when out of nowhere IE8 fired up (i use FF3) & threw up a flash video clip of 3 men getting it on...

as i went to close the window it started jumping all around the screen making it impossible to close, so i killed it through the task manager... all was well.

about 5mins later it popped up again.., so i killed it AGAIN & my PC froze, i was then prompted (probably by the on-board CPU protection) stating....''this machine must now shut-down a virus has been detected''

so upon restart (which took forever), i ran all scanners i have & they found nothing..??, the problem has not happened since, but i now have a proccess that fires up on boot using 30% of the CPU & it wont stop until i physically kill it in the task manager...

the exe name is......''command windows host'' or something along those lines..??, i'll take a pic on the next boot..

this is quite worrying as my kids use my machine & having that crap pop up on the screen is a big NO NO!!

im a creature of habit in regards to web surfing so i haven't been anywhere i could of contracted one, but the OS cant find a problem...

how do i null out this malicious virus if the scanners wont find it..??

 

[torrentg]

First thing to check is msconfig from the start menu search box. Hit enter. Go to startup tab. Maybe it can be seen easily like that and gotten rid of then through using Regedit.

Use services.msc to look for any new 3rd party services you never heard of.

Malwarebytes is an excellent scanner. Use that with updated definitions to scan and check on things.

Visit here too, to delete all sites:

AdobeClearFlash

 

[skunksmash]

First thing to check is msconfig from the start menu search box. Hit enter. Maybe it can be seen easily like that and gotten rid of then through using Regedit.

Malwarebytes is an excellent scanner. Use that with updated definitions to scan and check on things.

Visit here too, to delete all sites:

AdobeClearFlash

cheers mate....... i'll give those options a go

 

[BugMeister]

see here for info..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATq2x489iE0

 

[tw33k]

Try this: Free ESET Online Antivirus Scanner

 

[Uber Philf]

Also, give this online scanner a shot.

Trend Micro HouseCall - Free Online Virus and Spyware Scan - Trend Micro Australia

 

[skunksmash]

cheers guys.......

look at this, it looks promising & the scan has only just started...... spybot S&D missed these.

View attachment 39067

 

[Uber Philf]

Ahh, good reliable MB, Should be sweet after this

 

[skunksmash]

right....its complete, look at the crap its found

View attachment 39071

please dont tell me i need to purchase this app to remove them...??

edit....lol, forget the above i found it

 

[Uber Philf]

Hahaha, was going to say...

Let's hope that cleaned all the nasties

 

[skunksmash]

well....what can i say, cleared the detections it asked for a reboot to remove the remaining few..... upon fire up the process is gone

cheers lads, your all worth you weight in gold.... my rig is firing on all cylinders once more.

 

[Qdos]

Something that remains to be said is that a decent disk imaging program would have saved all this hassle, because you could have simply rolled back to a clean drive image and have written any malware, rootkits, worms or viruses - out of your system.

If I had to choose between my disk image software, and having an anti-virus or anti-malware suite, it'd be the disk imager which didn't get discarded

 

[torrentg]

Cool. Glad to see things seem fixed!