Downloading a program from a friend, he managed to infect my computer with a nasty virus called "antivirus 2009" and mcaffee didn't catch it!
Any hints to get rid of it.. this thing has all but made my gaming computer useless with it's constant popups to download "upgrades" to the program to get rid of it.
combofix I clean that crap from multiple computers every week with it.
Here's another fix:
http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/malware-removal/uninstall-antivirus-2009
mad_machine wrote: mcaffee didn't catch it!
Expecting a virus to find a virus? Naaaah.
AVG is a free and stunningly effective anti-virus.
For pay it doesn't get any better than Keperskey (sp) or NOD32 (or something close to that).
Osterkraut wrote:mad_machine wrote: mcaffee didn't catch it!Expecting a virus to find a virus? Naaaah. AVS is a free and stunningly effective anti-virus. For pay it doesn't get any better than Keperskey (sp) or NOD32 (or something close to that).
AVG maybe? free.grisoft.com will get you to it
If i didn't get symantec with free updates from life for free from my school.. I'd use AVG or avast
I guess it really wasn't free then huh
internetautomart wrote:Osterkraut wrote:AVG maybe? free.grisoft.com will get you to it D'oh!mad_machine wrote: mcaffee didn't catch it!Expecting a virus to find a virus? Naaaah. AVS is a free and stunningly effective anti-virus. For pay it doesn't get any better than Keperskey (sp) or NOD32 (or something close to that).
Grisoft's AVG is about the best free one you can get, it's better than most pay versions. There is a pay version of AVG that is even stronger. I had to use it and buy it once, the free found the virus but couldn't remove it. The pay version cleaned it up. And it's a lot cheaper than other pay programs. A 2 year subscription for less than half the price of 1 year of McAffee or Norton.
You'll probably have to go into safe mode to get rid of it.
Update McCrappy, reboot into safe mode, let it scan the entire system and see if it gets rid of it.
http://community.mcafee.com/showthread.php?t=222067
Worst case, you'll have to build a boot disk or put the drive in another system to scan and remove the virus without it getting into memory.
After you remove the virus, start the machine off the network and scan it again to make sure it isn't still hanging around trying to download more payloads.
Good luck! Stefan
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