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Title: Malware advice
Post by: Xessive on Wednesday, June 13, 2007, 05:09:20 AM

Ok, I have been infected with the truly annoying Virtumonde bug.. It basically randomly pops up adds for some bogus software etc. And it is extremely agitating. No matter how many times I remove the bogus .dll's it generates, new ones crop up.

Apparently AVG didn't start detecting it until recently, I removed it and switched to Avira AntiVir® PersonalEdition Classic. Which is detecting them as well, but it only removes the bogus dll's, without actually resolving the root of the problem.

Does anyone know how to get rid of it?

I'm liking Antivir so far, it has a clean interface and is farily light on the system. What do you all recommend for a reliable (and free) antivirus?

Title: Re: Malware advice
Post by: Ghandi on Wednesday, June 13, 2007, 09:42:03 AM

After a quick google investigation I came across this program. (http://www.atribune.org/content/view/24/2/) Hopefully that helps.

Title: Re: Malware advice
Post by: Xessive on Wednesday, June 13, 2007, 10:23:01 AM

Thanks Ghandi, I hope it works.

Title: Re: Malware advice
Post by: scottws on Wednesday, June 13, 2007, 11:12:09 AM

Does Windows Defender help in this case?

Title: Re: Malware advice
Post by: WindAndConfusion on Wednesday, June 13, 2007, 02:13:28 PM

Failing that, try Vundo Fix, but only if you believe what Wikipedia has to say on the subject (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VirtuMonde).

Title: Re: Malware advice
Post by: Xessive on Wednesday, June 13, 2007, 10:31:37 PM

VundoFix seems to have resolved the problem. I have yet to experience any annoying pop-ups since I used it.

Windows Defender didn't really do much. It detected some of the bogus dll's, then it took me to the Microsoft site with some antivirus software recommendations.

I also ran the Windows OneCare online scanner, and it pretty much did the same thing (and it cleaned up some temp files).

Title: Re: Malware advice
Post by: Ghandi on Wednesday, June 13, 2007, 10:43:09 PM

Glad to hear it worked. Kudos to google search. :)

Title: Re: Malware advice
Post by: Xessive on Wednesday, June 13, 2007, 11:28:49 PM

I just realized why my Google searches weren't yielding good results! I've been searching "Virtumod"!! My bad!

Thanks again Ghandi.

By teh way, how effective is Windows Defender anyway?

Title: Re: Malware advice
Post by: scottws on Thursday, June 14, 2007, 12:12:38 AM

I'm not sure, but it gets pretty good marks.