Help with virus.

Yeah, i was surfing at the internet and saw some great advertisiment where you can picture your self from real picture into cartoon. I started to download that and it was virus. My virus-protections cant delete it. Spybot cannot delete it becouse it says that i am not the administer of this computer.

Virus is "My way websearch"

Now my computer is way too slow and that why i can detect that as virus by myself too.

Yeah, thanks for any help =)

Can you not make yourself the administrator of your computer so you can get Spybot to delete it?

If all else fails, you can go the fun route and reformat

so people really do fall for those " turn yourself into a cartoon " bullshit ads?

Download HiJackThis and see if that takes care of things.


You probably should change your signature.

System restore will help you get rid of it

Also..Hijack this is bollocks. It lists like 1000 services active on your PC and it's a guessing game finding the one that's the virus/hijacker, because they use a generic name for it.

Best thing for dealing with these is download a tool called malwarebytes

Will sort you out guaranteed

safe mode + malware bytes usually works

if all else fails, reinstall the os

Option1: Manipulate your msconfig file
-goto run
-type msconfig
-locate where the virus file is place
-remove everything that is on start-up tab
-go to the virus file and delete it

Option2: Reset your sytem.
-Sytem Restore

Option3: Reformat
-Reformat

Hi Gromered - bummer!

I can offer a few hints as I have picked up a few things since getting 2 'drive-by downloads' in two weeks, when using Brute Force SEO. (I don't blame the software, rather the IE vulnerabilities.)

Anyway, first of all Spybot Search and Destroy. To run as administrator you have to go to the start button, view all programs, find the program, right click and select 'run as administrator' from the right click menu. A bit weird - but that's what you have to do. Now you should be cool with that.

Malwarebytes: this can work, but as others have pointed out you may need to start your computer in safe mode as the malware might stop Malwarebytes from running.

For me, system restore worked for one of my malware issues: but failed the second one and I ended up reinstalling Windows.

Having learned from the experience: I've changed from McAffee to Zone Alarm, as I think it is less targeted by hackers. I started using Spybot Search and Destroy. Using this, I inoculated my browsers. Also, you should set it to auto-update, for which it needs your Windows login (can't do it if you auto-logon, as it uses Windows Scheduler which does not allow that.)

Finally, I have just started using a Firefox add-on called Noscript. it does mean a few extras clicks when you actually do want a script to run, but it does obviously block others which may have bad intent, so I think it's worth it. Having just had two viruses by simply visiting a website, you just had to do everything you can.


I now run BF SEO on a dedicated computer - fortunately I had an old one lying around. It takes 6-7 hours for a typical run, so it needs its own machine anyway, really. For me, anyway. I feel much safer.

Good luck with your virus, and hope this info helps.

hows this, ill give you an easy way to fix this.
turn your UAC off, it will prompt you that it is not safe, but don't worry, its all good.
then after you do that. turn your pc off and turn it back on hitting F8 F9 F11 F12 F1, one of those keys will bring you to the boot screen where you can boot into safe mode, after you boot into safe mode, run a scan on your /temp folder, your virus is either in there or in the /windows32 or /windows folder.

also, if your virus scanner doesnt pick it up, go to demonoid and look up kaspersky, download and install, scan,

BTW: the UAC will allow you to delete what you want. with it on, it won't allow you to do much as far as the administrator

What OS do you have? If its Vista it might be possible that your admin account isn't active. You can activate it by going to CMD and typing the command :

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Oh - quick extra; the virus forums all seem to recommend running superantispyware too. Didn't work for me - but they hold it in high regards so might be worth trying. M