Hey guys, just thought I'd try to help some guys who have been hit with some of the new ugly malware that's been going around. Last night I got hit stupidly by not having my McAfee and safe browsing turned on in I.E. 8. I had just finished setting up my computer for the umpteenth time when I decided to visit Pirate Bay to see if it had shut down yet (wasn't pirating, just looking 
). Within 5 secs I had contracted the Vista AntiVirus 2010. And it wouldn't stop once it started. It ended up giving me a denial of service to the internet and made my screen a pop up hades. Well, before when I had gotten a variant of this I ended up in a total reformat. This time I decided to do a little research. I ended up finding this and was able to recover without a format. So here's what I found and hopefully it will help someone else, if they get hit.
First, you have to have a flash drive and a clean computer to work from. Then, download FixExe.reg and then MalwareBytes, you can get both for free. Make sure that the infected computer is actively running the scripts and plug the Flash Drive in and run FixExe.reg. It'll ask you about running things in the registry, say "yes." That'll get your internet up and running so you can then run MalwareBytes. Run it and let it get the newest definitions. Then do a full scan on the PC. (it's a overnight kinda thing) It'll see them and let you remove them, both programs and regkeys. Then you'll have the problem where your system restore will be disabled even after this. You need to go into "run" and then type in "rstrui.exe." It won't appear to do anything for a minute, but it'll bring back your System Restore functionality.
Well, I'm just glad my stupidity didn't cost me about 7 hours of work. You can still get it from the most seemingly harmless places even with AV software running. But you can recover without losing all of your time and data. Most of this latest junk is just "scareware." It doesn't eat data. I hope this helps someone else who gets hit. Here's my little screen of MalwareBytes, I really recommend it! Brian
). Within 5 secs I had contracted the Vista AntiVirus 2010. And it wouldn't stop once it started. It ended up giving me a denial of service to the internet and made my screen a pop up hades. Well, before when I had gotten a variant of this I ended up in a total reformat. This time I decided to do a little research. I ended up finding this and was able to recover without a format. So here's what I found and hopefully it will help someone else, if they get hit. First, you have to have a flash drive and a clean computer to work from. Then, download FixExe.reg and then MalwareBytes, you can get both for free. Make sure that the infected computer is actively running the scripts and plug the Flash Drive in and run FixExe.reg. It'll ask you about running things in the registry, say "yes." That'll get your internet up and running so you can then run MalwareBytes. Run it and let it get the newest definitions. Then do a full scan on the PC. (it's a overnight kinda thing) It'll see them and let you remove them, both programs and regkeys. Then you'll have the problem where your system restore will be disabled even after this. You need to go into "run" and then type in "rstrui.exe." It won't appear to do anything for a minute, but it'll bring back your System Restore functionality.
Well, I'm just glad my stupidity didn't cost me about 7 hours of work. You can still get it from the most seemingly harmless places even with AV software running. But you can recover without losing all of your time and data. Most of this latest junk is just "scareware." It doesn't eat data. I hope this helps someone else who gets hit. Here's my little screen of MalwareBytes, I really recommend it! Brian
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