Powerful Virus

There's this virus on my computer that keeps popping up warnings saying "Application cannot be executed. The file (random letters).exe is infected. Do you want to activate your antivirus software now?" If I click yes, it takes me to some page for some phony looking antivirus software on e internet explorer. If I press "No", that'll get rid of it, but they just keep popping up with different file names, and the only way to get a chance to type more than five words is if I just let a "Security Warning" it there for a while.

I downloaded and installed AVG, but it didn't detect anything. I tried panda's free webpage scan, but those assholes don't actually kill the viruses, just tell you that they're there unless you pay. I tried Trend Micro's home scan, but it thinks my computer isn't connected to the internet.

I don't know what to do. What I really, really need is a website that will scan and DELETE any viruses for free, and can work off firefox, because E can't connect to the internet for some reason or when I try reasonable websites it tells me those sites are harmful.

I think I have a virus masquerading as virus protection. I don't know which warning messages are real and which ones are fake. It's like "Antivirus Live" or something. And it's all fake. It even makes fake Windows Security Alert windows pop up, and they JUST KEEP COMING. It even tells me that avg is infected now. I think it's making all this up and making it impossible for me to do things.

Halp. @.@

Look around. They keyword you want is Antivirus Live. There's a file that will at least allow you to open programs.

Look around. They keyword you want is Antivirus Live. There's a file that will at least allow you to open programs.

I mean the fake ones. The fake ones are called "Antivirus Live" and "Antivirus software". What I need is a new piece of software that knows what these viruses are because AVG obviously doesn't. And even if it did, this virus just stopped it from working.

The best thing possible would be a free scan from a firefox-compatible website that knows what this virus is. There's got to be something like that. Anybody know any good ones?

You didn't get it. Search antivirus live, there's a file that can at least allow you to open all your programs. From there, maybe you can get your antivirus software to work.

I see what you're saying, and I found something that might do it. A program designed to get rid of this particular malware. Don't know how good it'll work though.

You pretty much screwed up when you clicked 'Yes' on that fake Anti-Virus message.
NO Anti-virus that you don't have installed will pop up and tell you that.
What you have going here, is a simple virus, that is trying to add a bigger one by you downloading
that fake Anti-Virus.
To add on what you did with the click on 'Yes'..
You shouldn't of done that.
If AVG didn't get rid of it, then try Avast! or any other free software until you get rid of it.
If you can't then that virus is probably a big one that will be very hard to remove.
You can shut it down, and take the hard drive to your local computer store and they can try and get of it.
(Which, they usually can)
If the problem continues and all else fails, restore your computer.
But DO NOT recover it from a earlier date.
It is likely that the virus got into the Recovery files so it can duplicate itself if you attempt to recover your computer.
Also, use Google. People will explain ways to solve this.
Also, clear your cookies and browsing data off of your internet browser, it may be getting stuff from there.
And avoid downloading anti-viruses that say they can get rid of something specifically.
It usually ends up being another version of Bullshit.(Fake Anti-Virus)
I wish you best of luck.

Oops, forgot to mention, If you know the name of the virus, look it up on google.
A lot of websites give you the main .dll files, .exe files, etc. of that virus.
And of course, you go in and delete them.

This sounds like something I actually caught on my computer once. It's an annoying scareware.
I remember Zeich directing me to a site to fix it, but I don't remember it now.

Pretty much, when you start your computer, immediately Ctrl+Alt+Del (before the virus starts up) and end a certain process that's running to stop it from telling you files are infected, but I don't remember what the name is. You can just look up what it is.

Install Spybot, and run it. It isn't a virus, it's adware.

Remember, it is very important that you restart it from when you got it and not when a recovery was set.
Adware always finds it way back into your system, even if you started back to a time when you didn't have it.

porn sites.

'nuff said.

Use MBAM. Uninstall AVG and never use a browser based scanner.

Sorry,

All WRONG! But some were mostly right. Even if you scan with any of the tools above you will keep getting the infection. Its likely you have a rootkit installed. Please download and run ComboFix: http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/combofix/how-to-use-combofix .

Then please download, updates, the do a full scan using Malware Bytes-Anti Malware.

Infection should be cleared from there.

Remember: Google is your friend.

This person had a similar virus. Here is the forum post with the fix. It's not easy but it will work, I had to do it a few months ago for a friend.

http://forums.cnet.com/5208-6132_102-0.html?threadID=253785

MBAM is all you need, like Crankeye said. It's a matter of how to run it when the infection is active.

Believe it or not, I didn't get this virus from a porn site. IT was from trying to download a No-CD crack for Sims 2 Open for Business edition. I just got tired of faking the disk with demonoid.

But fuck it, I'll fake the disk with demonoid if it means staying unvirused.

Anyway, here's what I did. I tried that thing that the site told me to do but it didn't work out so well so I just wiped all the data. I hadn't accumulated much I hadn't already backed up anyway, except for progress in a Sims 2 game. Nothing I can't get back.

But the issue's fixed now.

I think you mean Daemontools.
Demonoid is a torrent site.

ANIMEFAN STOP GOING ON DODGY WEBSITES GETTING VIRUSES AND THEN COMPLAINING HERE.

Scan for a rootkit and remove it. Then run a virus scanner.

Stick to Gamecopyworld for no-cds