I think I have a virus...

[Function]

Hello everyone. Haven't really been that active. But anywho I think that I have a ton of virus's because everytime I try to open up firefox. This vista secruity shit pops up and says that firefox is invested with a trojan. Then it scans my machine and says I have like 35 virus's and to buy their program to remove them. And stuff like this keeps on poping up.

http://img371.imageshack.us/img371/9016/fina2.jpg (http://img371.imageshack.us/i/fina2.jpg/)
http://img697.imageshack.us/img697/4032/finax.jpg (http://img697.imageshack.us/i/finax.jpg/)

So I'm running a McAfee scan and so far it says I have nothing.

But before I take a loss and just reformat:

To reformat do I need the discs?
Do I just keep on pressing F2 on bootup?

Thanks guys

[i luffs yeww]

Wipe computer. Reinstall OS/Win7/Ubu. Or do whatever you want, go to whatever websites you want, and then on April 29th, download 10.04 and install that. :3

[Function]

Do I need the discs to re install vista?

[Brain]

yes, you need disks.

Make sure your virus scanner is up to date. Some of these viruses can simply be un-installed via the control panel. I would think that your main virus is the one trying to make you buy something, all the "viruses" that it says you have you probably don't, it's just trying to scare you into buying it.

[Harry]

You're owned. Only solution is to reformat and reinstall.

[Sandstorm]

You're owned. Only solution is to reformat and reinstall.

:duh:

I had a similar one on XP and MalwareBytes removed it on the first scan.

~Sand

[Frement]

Install avast antivirus, it has a free edition. And when you install make it do startup checks, then you will get rid of it.

[cycrosism]

I had this problem before, got it a few years ago. Is the program called Spyfalcon or something? If so, there are heaps of tuts on how to remove it.

I remember it would pop up asking me to install their program because "threats have been found" and i would go into control panel and remove it and it would pop up. But yea as I said there are some tuts to remove it. All I had to do was kill 2 processes, delete some files and run a scan then it was gone forever.

What you can do is hop onto a different machine, download "Spybot search and destroy", (install + run update) then run a scan. It should remove it.

[kingarabian]

Had it recently. Download Pc doctor. Look for a crack for it if you dont want to buy it. It WILL remove it completely. There is no reason to reformat as the virus will keep coming back.

[Diddy Kong]

I can help you get rid of that, just get TeamViewer.

[Function]

Alright, well I'm currently running a McAfee scan and an avast! scan. So I guess we'll see where this takes me.

[Torrent of Flame]

:duh:

I had a similar one on XP and MalwareBytes removed it on the first scan.

~Sand

Or Rollback your system. Thats what I did when I got Vista Security 2010 Virus.

[sylvawarrior]

Had a friend who had the same problem. Exact same software too. You probably don't have any viruses, they're just trying to urge you to buy it.

[Markus]

Try smitfraudfix, it blasts most of these annoying viri.

[anonymity]

After intentionally installing viruses, I have to filter through many different types of anti virus programs. Here is a list of free ones (or free/trial version ones you can try out).

adaware
asquared anti malware
avenger2
avg-antivirus
combofix
malewarebytes
rvaxo
spybot-sd
spyware blaster
spyware terminator
super anti spyware
swat it

I know some of them may look sketchy... but they have all been helpful to me.

I hope you get you computer cleaned up ;P . The best of luck to ya.

[Harry]

:duh:

I had a similar one on XP and MalwareBytes removed it on the first scan.

~Sand
Who are you gonna trust, MalwareBytes, or the people who made your OS? ;)

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc512587.aspx

You can't clean a compromised system by patching it.

You can't clean a compromised system by removing the back doors.

You can't clean a compromised system by using some "vulnerability remover."

You can't clean a compromised system by using a virus scanner.

You can't clean a compromised system by reinstalling the operating system over the existing installation.

You can't trust any data copied from a compromised system.

You can't trust the event logs on a compromised system.

You may not be able to trust your latest backup.

The only way to clean a compromised system is to flatten and rebuild.

Jesper M. Johansson, Ph.D. [YES, HE'S A DOCTOR], CISSP, MCSE, MCP+I

Security Program Manager
Microsoft Corporation

[bullzeye95]

Who are you gonna trust, MalwareBytes, or the people who made your OS? ;)

That is one person, not "the people who made your OS."

[Harry]

That is one person, not "the people who made your OS."
They wouldn't publish it on their Technet site if they didn't all agree on it.

[cycrosism]

Who cares about it Harry.

Function, check my earlier post

[Neehosoft]

Wipe computer. Reinstall OS/Win7/Ubu. Or do whatever you want, go to whatever websites you want, and then on April 29th, download 10.04 and install that. :3

This>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Don't do it

[i luffs yeww]

Why not? :<

[Boreas]

Malwarebytes is all about removing and preventing infections on MS OSes. That is one part of what MS is about. MBAM is not the be all and end all, but it is effective on many occasions, and gets a lot of what others miss.

What Jesper was saying in that quote applies more to corporate situations. For a home user rogueware like this, the following quote from Jesper applies more:

MS Antispyware [another rogueware] is not about being hard to remove.
http://msinfluentials.com/blogs/jesper/archive/2009/08/31/and-finally-standard-user-malware.aspx