Pesky New Virus, Please Read

[AdamT]

Hey everyone,

I figured I'd post this up here and see if anyone else had encountered this, and warn those who haven't.

There's a new virus going around that will disable your anti-virus software and then terminate the executable if it's still running. I have managed to run a full hard drive search for the virus to no avail. I have also tried to uninstall and re-install the software again to no avail.

Apart from leaving my computer extremely vulnerable, I haven't seen it do anything else.

Please post any comments or suggestions or experiences with this virus.

[RinZim]

Maybe I'm just being stupid here, but where does this virus come from? Like, is it an attachment in an email?

[robot180]

Sort of unrelated, my anti-virus program scanned at eight o'clock tonight. It said that a virus-like program changed my boot record and I was just searching for some information and ended up at a strange website with hundreds of popups. I thought nothing of it until I got the message that something changed my boot record.

So I selected for it to restore my boot record. About a minute after doing so, it hit me. I just finished installing Linux about two weeks ago and my anti-virus program hasn't scanned since then. I stopped what I was doing and restarted the computer, booting into linux. It says "kernal panic" and the lights on the keyboard start flashing. It stops loading at that point. I think I will have to reinstall Linux now. Haha

[anna~marie]

y a i just go a virus recently through AIM and it just keeps telling my friends that Im gettin a camera and theres alink. when you clik on it, youget the virus
anyone know how to get rid of it??

[Joe Matt]

Man, I love owning a Mac. ;)

What I recomend doing is uninstalling AIM, running anti-virus, and then start a new user name. Most extreme case would be re-installing Windows, but I doubt that.

[anna~marie]

ya well im just too $@#$@#$@#$@# lazy to do that

[David Kelly]

Originally posted by anna~marie
y a i just go a virus recently through AIM and it just keeps telling my friends that Im gettin a camera and theres alink. when you clik on it, youget the virus
anyone know how to get rid of it??


I think the virus you have may be the one that is explaned in this thread: http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=22286 A few of my friends had it and got it off by what is the in the thread I posted.


Hope it helps :]