Let I share my story:
My computer infected by spyware before...
My desktop includes a icon that say Spyware Killer or something...
actually itself is spyware.... It installed few ads tray icons and massive pop-up...
I try to remove it but all antispyware found no spyware...
So that i reformatting my hdd....

Anyone of you have computer infected experience?If have, share plz.

next time just scan using anti-spyware... no need to reformat the HDD, lol!

He already mentioned this line "I try to remove it but all antispyware found no spyware..."

BTW, I usually do an incremental backup and just restore it when my computer gets infected by stubborn trojan/virus/malware

kerossac: Have you tried HijackThis! ?

This post has been edited by samurai1337: Apr 30 2006, 07:35 PM

No...
I search for HijackThis! at Download.com, it seems a spyware remover....

You can try to kill the spyware process using HijackThis!, but since u have formatted ur HDD..
But you can use HijackThis! next time if u cannot remove the spyware using spyware remover...

First of all.. need to dc your connection.. the try clean and remove it clearly. If can't, just standby your Ghost lorr..

It is sad that the latest HijackThis doesn't look registry entry in policy key(i forgot the location), most of the new malware autostart up from there.

Can you talk about this topic?
dun out topic, plz...
this topic is sharing experience...
TQ.

if ur comp infected juz scan with ur AV or any spyware program..
so far i juz use that way, keep scan ur pc every week

has anyone heard about one virus called Brontox..(its originally from Indonesia)..my PC was kena by this virus already..this virus is quite genius, i'm unable to deal with any anti virus software in my PC (my previous Norton 2004 cannot to detect this virus, thus i tried to install another anti virus, but cant, this virus is well protecting itself)..

here the symptoms,

i cannot unhide my hide folder

automatically got extra folder named as the original folder (exe file)

windows suddenly restart by itself

cannot open or download, even search any anti virus website..

email?..i think u all here knows about it..


now, i cannot:

installed any new anti virus software

download anti virus software from internet

put command on regedit, also cannot..

i cannot deal with any anti virus software becos of this..

now have to format my pc, so that i can install the lates anti virus software, then i can destroy this virus if its happend to me again..

Actuaklly, there are Brontox removers out there. But since you have formatted, probably there is no need for it anymore then.

This virus is quite popular. My sister is also hit by this one, and a friend who works at a nearby university has to clean up nearly 200 PCS in the labs there.

Well, my pc kena virus/worms for 2 times.

1st one is microsoft products, such as words, excel ...blah blah. i scan my whole HDD, didn't find anyway. It was totally weird. The infect is when i open ms word, it types itself. It just like a ghost typing. I uninstalled the whole ms products and delete the some ms files. Then i install it back, it solved the issue. I still don't know it's virus or worms. So weird.

2rd is norton antivirus kena virus. Sounds very silly right? It was damm real. I use norton antivirus 2004. I online as usual, then suddenly it auto updated itself. I was shocked, cos' i disable the auto-update. After it updated. It told me to restart pc. When i in my account, norton antivirus cannot run and said what got error or virus in my pc. 10x God i got install AVG antivirus. I use AVG to heal the infected file. But no luck, norton antivirus still cant run. So i fed-up and uninstalled it. I using AVG antivirus now. Till now no problem using that

I almost got this one.. from my friend's thumbrive.. it's fun to see how the AV can detect and delete them.. it's not like everyday worm or virus tried to take over my computer.. use a decent AV and always update it, with those steps, one day you might be hoping a virus would try to enter your PC

well my experience.. only once i think..
downloaded a p2p software called Kugoo.. then i didn't expect they include CnsMin ( spyware ? )

of course in the end i deleted it.. thx to suBS

read here.
http://lynarchive.doubleukay.com/t-248068.html

i didn't know that kugoo included anything malicious... i scan using more then 4 antispyware and with kaspersky + zone alarm...

btw... you using doubleukay's hosting?

To sky.live :
no, why? what makes you think that i am using? hehe.


anyway that's really the only time i encounter spyware.

Well, a horror story. My old PC that I haven't used for 2 years is infected. Recently, I connected to the internet for 12 mins without firewall and got a need to shutdown error. I had forgotten that I had transferred all the data to my new PC and subsequently reformatted the hard drive. So I had no firewall, nothing except for winXP and the old modem USB driver. I can't even stay online long enough to download the free zone alarm firewall before it shutdown.

Anyway, I downloaded the firewall from my new PC and transferred with a thumbdrive. It became stable after the firewall was installed but the performance was sloppy. I suspect spyware since I saw so many unknown programs from msconfig. So, I downloaded the spyware blaster for the free scan. To my horror, it scaned out 253 files (226 files alone in the registry) and 14 total spyware with one surveil spyware among it. It was crazy as my old PC was only online for TWELVE minutes.

I am not too keen on getting the internet security suite for my 2ndary PC. Any free trial spyware that I can download to remove all these? Thanks.

the thing is i cannot install any new anti virus software at the first place..so how to run this so call brontox remover?..my thumdrive was infected..after formating hdd and installed the avast software, i tried to remove viruses on my thumbdrive, yes avast do very well..this virus really hot nowadays, i met my IT technician at Maybank, he says, they are trying hardly to counter this virus..

my pc also infected with this virus.. can u guide me to c;lean this virus without reformating?
thanx

Does someone xperience this?

Today my friend just told me that his HDD space is always full. He uninstalled few games, which is 2-3GB. THen, his HDD space is full again. He try delete some big files, eg avi file. HDD is full again. It like got virus or what which cause his HDD to be full, no free space left. He tried to scan his HDD, but no virus or worm. Clean scan.

So, any comment anyone? I told him that reformatting HDD is the best way. But he very tired formating. So anyone got solution?

maybe his MBR is corrupted,or his paging file(virtual memory) is like set to occupy all the space?

What is MBR? So any solution?

10x for some info

MBR = This first sector of the hard disk is called the master boot record (or sometimes the partition table or master boot block).

for MBR failure solution refer here....

http://www.brienposey.com/kb/hard_disk_failure_2.asp

format is the safest.....have to do it lor...

format whole harddisk..mean whole partition..dun format just C...

my neighbour's pc suffering alot virus and spyware....when i inspect his pc,his norton 2004 already corrupted...

i tried installing avg and adaware since its free...but when half way the windows close itself...all other application also same including windows task manager,auto close itself...tried to install in safe mode but same result...

so,how to kill this virus that close all application what we open? i cant install avg until now...

Well, so it got popup any error msg? maybe it's the os got problem. Virus usually don't do such things. Maybe should format the HDD.

10x for the info guys

that virus call brontox..if someone have another way to solve this problem without formating, he/she really superb..

Download anti virus software such as AntiVir fr other pc. Dun downld fr the infected pc coz brontok will close down windows. Install the software from thumbdrive. It works for me.

For me the best way to deal with virus-infected PC is to format the harddrive and install the OS from the scratch. I'm a sceptic

BTW. since this is the share-your-experience in dealing with viruses thread, I would like to share mine. Err Not my PC exactly, but my officemate's. Her PC was hit by a virus few months ago. Sorry, I can't remember the virus name. The virus will DELETE some antivirus softwares like Norton, AVG, Kaspersky, etc after it infected the PC. I used Hijackthis to remove virus-suspected process that executed during the boot-up and restart the PC. Then I installed Kaspersky antivirus. The installation went fine. But I cannot use it. The virus deletes the antivirus as soon as the installation process completed. I didn't knew about this until I was wandering why the definition-updating process takes forever to complete. I did some researches and found out why. Beside deleting the antivirus softwares, the virus will modify the updating process. The updating is there, but the only things that will updated is the virus itself, not the definition files. Clever, very clever

You can use online virus scanner actually...
expect the virus blocks all internet connection....
or you can use Stinger which a software that can put into USB drive or CD,
so u can use Stinger to remove viruses. (Stinger doesn't need any installation)

mine is same as others, get the brontox remover(coz brontox will autoclose the antivirus), start your antivirus, update the definition and scan again.. better use on-boot scan.. or..

some of the way to prevent is rename your cmd.exe file.. a lot of virus will findo cmd.exe to do their works.. so, just rename it..
mine, ive rename my cmd.exe to ayam.exe

Really can prevent? 10x

last time..when still noob to internet..just download everything ....kena worm..kena virus...yeah..spyware included...yay T_T...

end up with reformatting whole hdd

dunno yet, luckly my pc is still uninfected when implement it...

This post has been edited by skylynx: May 16 2006, 02:26 PM

me myself seldom hit by virus or spyware...... is actually the person around give me some lesson ...... since i always access to internet - firewall, anti-virus and plus a anti-spyware program i think is a must......

i probably always aware on what program is running on startup (i use to check my msconfig + delete inactivate with msconfig cleanup) and keep my registry clean also (use registry cleaner to clean unuse registry). This i think will help u to fast notice if any strange program is running (not install by urself).

for download new software and program try to get know to whether the software itself got carry any spyware or not.... like kazaa b4 will mention that it will bring along aspyware forget it name ..... and try not to download those software crack cos most of the ppl get hit by virus or trojan is from those crack u download.

this only my opinion if wrong plz correct me

YA! Good point. Well, i'm same as ya. Seldom hit by virus or spyware. Kazaa lite is a free-spyware. Yet, it also depend on your luck. I just install AVG , that enough for me

last time i got get a virus i think.my pc still can run.then day after day my mouse start to hang a while n when move the mouse fast,it willl hang n need to restart the pc.then next day,my pc will auto restart sometime.then another day,my cd rom cannot function already.put wat cd inside also say no cd inside.the virus is just like delete my system file.then i cant go in to windows already.need to send back.but i get back the pc in 2-3 months coz still got warranty by acer.zzz.acer sux
after i get back my pc,whole had disk was format.i think was ok already n just surf friendster n lowyat net only.i also not always play the pc.after 2 weeks my mouse start to hang already.then next few days i cant go in windows again.when wan to go windows,the pc keep restarting.now need to send back to acer company again.i duno they got fix my pc or not.zzz.duno need to wait how many month again.i swear i wont buy a acer computer again!!!

U got install antivirus software? Got full scan your hdd? Your situation more sounds to technical problem rather than virus. Normally, after they format your hdd. The virus/worm should be erase. Hmm.. maybe some parts of the hardware not good. YA!! Acer laptop so problematic. I got frie buy acer laptop. Just buy about 2-3months. Den the whole laptop cant switch on. Go to the acer company and ask them to fix lo!!! I think it's the technical problem.

omg!!... my office oso kena brontox.. huhuhuuu..