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[lincs1]

Hello all just a question my daughter was on her laptop this morning the only two sites she viseted were facebook and an online movie site. After she exited internet explorer a virus had downloaded itself into the hdd. It was called personal anti virus it started doing all funny stuff opening windows blocking all web pages and kept popping windows up and warnings from the system tray.It just wouldn't stop unless i agreed to install the personal anti virus.All i was getting is critical system alerts and couldn't do anything with the laptop. I have managed to get rid with super anti spyware the thing is it kept duplicating itself into all differant places on my hard drive:mad:. Just wanted to know if anybody else has been unfortunate enough to come across it cheers.

i did state in the shoutbox a few days ago that a virus was lurking on facebook,

p.s did u get my pic of overload via msn email? and was it any use?

[RB]

The virus is a twat to get rid of, 8 times out of 10 its a reformat HDD job to totally get rid of it.

check this out:- Personal Antivirus (PersonalAntivirus) Remover at Spyware Removal Tools

and this :- http://www.myantispy...l-instructions/

Im not sure if SuperAntiSpyware will remove it...

[tripodbeatz]

my brother had the same problem as many others over 2 million have now been infected with this virus off face book its a nasty little worm virus that is malware i think even with virus software it still wanders in the system 32 folder in windows it originally started as a video link and spread, u need to get a good reg scanner like ashampoo is excellent and worm out the little worm lol sorry for the pun, this is getting a real problem for windows users dont use programs like norton or mcfee all poo the best solution for a virus free life is go linux if cant afford a mac and use crossover for linux for ya pc apps hoped this helped

peace out tripodbeatz

[stanmarsh14]

It's a varient of that fecking xp anti-virus 08 again.

Seams the fix is almost the same as you would use for getting rid of smitfraud as described here, however as others have said, the only sure fire way to get rid of it is with a full format....

http://www.bleepingc...sonal-antivirus

I'll up a software pack later today which I have used to get rid of smitfraud before. Also, would advise to get a copy of Malwarebytes, fully update it, then scan the living crap out of the machine concerned: Malwarebytes.org and use the two scanning tools attached

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[Matty.N]

Thanks all of you for coming up with all this info so quick. I'm abit lost here when your talking about a full format? so even though the super anti spyware says it's got rid will the virus still be there? thanks again all for this usefull info.

a full format means you will have to insert the O/S Disk & format it & then reinstall your O/S

[stanmarsh14]

cheers matty but i'm lost even more now O/S?

XP, Vista, etc

[kriss]

cheers matty but i'm lost even more now O/S?

Tommy O/S Just stands for Operating System....like stanmarsh is saying also above.

[tripodbeatz]

need to install windows tommy but id get a copy of ashampoo clean infected registry entries i hate windows its like looking after a incontinent pensioner lol

[Fruity_Goodness]

my brother had the same problem as many others over 2 million have now been infected with this virus off face book its a nasty little worm virus that is malware i think even with virus software it still wanders in the system 32 folder in windows it originally started as a video link and spread, u need to get a good reg scanner like ashampoo is excellent and worm out the little worm lol sorry for the pun, this is getting a real problem for windows users dont use programs like norton or mcfee all poo the best solution for a virus free life is go linux if cant afford a mac and use crossover for linux for ya pc apps hoped this helped

peace out tripodbeatz

Installing Linux for the express purpose of surfing the shinternet seems like an excellent idea. Please to be so kind as to post instructions on how to install tripodbeatz?

[Fruity_Goodness]

Installing Linux for the express purpose of surfing the shinternet seems like an excellent idea. Please to be so kind as to post instructions on how to install tripodbeatz?

Try this:

Installing Ubuntu Linux! | PCMech

[todd1970]

well the scan is complete and this is the result

Jeez tommy..youve more trojans there than mininova.

Delete all them Malwarebytes is a good program should get rid of it for ya.