Someone Please help! Got viruses that I cant get out! I got both eset and malwarebytes!

kvmcable · Jul 26, 2012

bertbaby said:
I used to be in the security business and AVAST works just fine and it's free.

Yeah what he said. As an owner of a computer store for over 20 years I love to read comments like that. It keeps the work coming in the door. Use McAfee and Norton also, especially the free one that comes with Comcast that shit is the bomb - well, if you make a living removing viruses and saving data for people that don't realize the need for a backup until 3 minutes after they need one.

Serious security doesn't included free anti-virus and I don't care who's name is on it. It also doesn't include McAfee or Norton. The majority of infected computers that come through the door run free a/vs, Norton or McAfee.

For those that advise don't open stuff and all that - today you can get infected just by clicking a link. Auto-downloaders and installers take over from there. You can do as this person did, click a link in a forum and before you can say "oh shit" you're infected.

Happy to hear the OP got back up and running. I hope the first thing he did was set up a good backup solution. Me personally I don't trust backup software much so I clone my drives to other drives once a week. If a drive goes down I just move the data and power cables and the most I lose is a week's worth of data. I've seen too many times people depending on backup software compressing data and when they need to do a recovery something goes wrong. Recently we have a ton of customers with failing hard drives that have all their data backed up to online services like Carbonite. Yeah a lot of good that does when your drive fails and has to be replaced.

Everyone has their own ideas of how to do backups and some work better than others but one thing they all have in common is any backup is better than no backup.

To wipe most viruses you need to kill the active process - download all rkill files and get the latest Kaspersky AVP tool on a flash drive. You'll kick ass on most viruses with just those two tools. Run rkill to shut down the active process.

Techxan · Jul 26, 2012

kvmcable said:
Yeah what he said. As an owner of a computer store for over 20 years I love to read comments like that. It keeps the work coming in the door. Use McAfee and Norton also, especially the free one that comes with Comcast that shit is the bomb - well, if you make a living removing viruses and saving data for people that don't realize the need for a backup until 3 minutes after they need one.

Serious security doesn't included free anti-virus and I don't care who's name is on it. It also doesn't include McAfee or Norton. The majority of infected computers that come through the door run free a/vs, Norton or McAfee.

For those that advise don't open stuff and all that - today you can get infected just by clicking a link. Auto-downloaders and installers take over from there. You can do as this person did, click a link in a forum and before you can say "oh shit" you're infected.

Happy to hear the OP got back up and running. I hope the first thing he did was set up a good backup solution. Me personally I don't trust backup software much so I clone my drives to other drives once a week. If a drive goes down I just move the data and power cables and the most I lose is a week's worth of data. I've seen too many times people depending on backup software compressing data and when they need to do a recovery something goes wrong. Recently we have a ton of customers with failing hard drives that have all their data backed up to online services like Carbonite. Yeah a lot of good that does when your drive fails and has to be replaced.

Everyone has their own ideas of how to do backups and some work better than others but one thing they all have in common is any backup is better than no backup.

To wipe most viruses you need to kill the active process - download all rkill files and get the latest Kaspersky AVP tool on a flash drive. You'll kick ass on most viruses with just those two tools. Run rkill to shut down the active process.

And after you THINK you are clean, run RootkitRevealer from systernals to make sure you have no rootkits.

I use rkill first, then E-scan av for windows (Kaspersky engine, by microworld technlogies) along with Malwarebytes and Spybot S&D(for the block list). run rootkit revealer, write down all the locations of the hidden files, then boot up on a linux distro and manually delete the files RR shows me. A quick look at all open ports, and I am good.

Many of the shares of this forum have rootkits, as do free themes and plugins, even PLR software sometimes does. When you download something, run a scan on the downloaded file before and after you unzip it.

knowbody · Jul 26, 2012

Wish I could help with a cure but long ago I decided it was too much trouble to always be searching for fixes to computer problems. I paid for DeepFreeze which effectively removes any and all changes made to my computer each time I reboot. Great for testing apps and perfect to remove bugs you pick up on the Internet. Pain inasmuch as you must reboot in 'thawed' mode to make changes that you do desire to make but you get used to that over time. Perfect running machine restored with every reboot, can't live without it.
Good luck.

Oscar GoPBN · Jul 26, 2012

bring norton-anti virus original version ,just while installing the entire gets removed .I am using it from 10 years ,never had any problems with them or else try mcafee ani-virus

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