Finally back!

[smarteyeball]

Always helps to have a win 7 installed on a USB stick. 22 minutes to install.

Having multiple installations (plus each installation having a different A/V) for cross scanning is definitely handy.

The only downside to running an A/V from another install is that it won't boot scan or do a 'currently loaded in memory' scan.

77 objects? I would have scrapped that installation too :shock:


Do you know how you were infected?

 

[zigzag3143]

Yeah, while installing I went out to Microsoft, and was redirected to a different site (maybe I spelled it wrong). That and the bogus defender gave me a clue.

 

[smarteyeball]

hmm. So it was a drive by infection? What browser?

 

[CarlTR6]

OK so I had first encounter with a boat load of the buggers. I was setting up a dual boot partition (clean installed) when lo and behold defender pops up and starts to run. Now I know defender doesnt do that so I just hit cancel. Unfortunately the cancel button also spawned more nasties.

Now Im at the point where I cant open task manager, I cant go to any AV web site, and its just launching more and more processes.

I finally had a brain storm. Boot from the other partition and run a virus scan from that partition to the infected one.

After deleting, and removing 77 objects I had a clean (clean) partition.

Not feeling comfortable I re-formatted anyway.. Total time to back online cleanly was about 2 hours.

Always helps to have a win 7 installed on a USB stick. 22 minutes to install.

So be careful


Ken

Wow, Ken. That certainly testifies to the worth of boot disks, boot sticks and images. I'm sure glad you were able to get it cleaned up.

 

[zigzag3143]

hmm. So it was a drive by infection? What browser?

It infected every browser on my system, such that if launched it would spawn more viral processes. Started in IE, then firefox, then chrome.

 

[BugMeister]

yo zigzag - well done..!!

damned nasties, picking up on a spelling mistake an' all..:shock:

 

[DreemWarrior]

yo zigzag - well done..!!

damned nasties, picking up on a spelling mistake an' all..:shock:

No kidding...Well done ZigZag!