I was surfing the web and something downloaded on my computer and it pops up and tells me I have a trojan and brings up pops to antivrius software companys. I have used 3 different virus protectors and a spyware program and they found nothing. I cant get rid of the stupid pop-up thing though. Its in my taskbar and pop ups like every other minute. I Found the folder but when I go to delete it it says I need permission. What Do I do? Help would be greatly appreciated.
Need some urgent help.
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mayorredbeard
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Run this in safe mode:
http://www.afterdawn.com/software/desktop_software/desktop_security/smitfraudfix.cfm
It's a rudiementary virus scanner specifically designed for variants of the virus you are talking about. Download it, and run it in safe mode. No need for system restore.
The lack of a GUI makes it seem sometimes like the scanner is not working, but give it time. It should finish in under 30 minutes tops.
http://www.afterdawn.com/software/desktop_software/desktop_security/smitfraudfix.cfm
It's a rudiementary virus scanner specifically designed for variants of the virus you are talking about. Download it, and run it in safe mode. No need for system restore.
The lack of a GUI makes it seem sometimes like the scanner is not working, but give it time. It should finish in under 30 minutes tops.
blackjack
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Don't do anything drastic yet, delete all temporary INTERNET files and cookies then see if its gone, it sounds similar to the Winfix pop up that went around last year, it got into you temp folder then gave you a pop up telling you, you had a virus to try to get you to buy there software, it was just an anoying hoax. are you using fire fox browser as there pop up blocker should block it. try Peerguardian2 if not.
worshipme
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Know that one, boot into safe mode by continuously pressing F8 before Windows boots up and run an anti-spyware check.
mayorredbeard
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Adaware and spydoctor both miss it, (or for me they both did). The one i posted is a very small file that runs from the cmd prompt and is very effective for this virus. Many spyware programs miss this one. Its related to Virus Heat which is probably the most annoying thing in the world.
Thanks. That did the trick.
worshipme
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I know as I've had it. It runs as a process and restarts every time I tried to end it so I went into safe mode and deleted it manually. Windows Defender was finding it BTW.
