Author Topic: System Tool (Read 955 times)

Jasa 12265 · January 28, 2011, 05:19:02 PM

I recently found a Virus. It's called System Tool. How it works is you download it from a random website and is called a random filename, such as AFL.exe. When you run it it installs all the files deep into your files. It lags the hell out of your computer while scanning. It automatically starts a scan when it starts up. There are setting for it that allows it to stop scanning, starting up, and everything but you have to buy a key first. While you have it it doesn't allow you to open up ANY programs. It won't even let you open up the task manager to end it. If you try and open up a program it closes it and gives you a message saying it is infected and asks you to remove it. Overall one of the worst viruses out there. Considering this is the only real one I've had.

Just a heads up, 99% of the anti-virus software is a virus.

Also if you do download it, you can't open up the remove programs window because it isn't listed. If you find the files and delete them, they are still running. The only way to remove it is system restore.

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otto-san · January 28, 2011, 05:20:16 PM

I got this once. :c

Chrono · January 28, 2011, 05:22:19 PM

Everyone should do this:
Make a copy of task manager on your desktop, with a different name. Not just a shortcut of it, an actual copy of the file.

If you do this, and anything stops you from opening the original task manager, you can open up the copy on your desktop, usually without a problem. Then you can terminate any suspicious tasks, and begin using the search feature to find and delete any problematic files.

You don't even need any anti-virus to get rid of this scamware.

Placid · January 28, 2011, 05:23:21 PM

hurr :D
nice job

i think i've told this story many times but i'll tell it again: my dad got a virus that stored research on his computer and opens it randomly like, every 2 minutes. it then proceeds to lag the stuff out of it.

and my dad managed to get it. twice.

Jasa 12265 · January 28, 2011, 05:25:47 PM

Quote from: Chrono on January 28, 2011, 05:22:19 PM

Everyone should do this:
Make a copy of task manager on your desktop, with a different name. Not just a shortcut of it, an actual copy of the file.

If you do this, and anything stops you from opening the original task manager, you can open up the copy on your desktop, usually without a problem. Then you can terminate any suspicious tasks, and begin using the search feature to find and delete any problematic files.

You don't even need any anti-virus to get rid of this scamware.

It stops practically any file/shortcut. Except itself of course.

Chrono · January 28, 2011, 05:26:42 PM

Quote from: Jasa 12265 on January 28, 2011, 05:25:47 PM

It stops practically any file/shortcut. Except itself of course.

Do it anyways. Not all of them stop everything.

Colten · January 28, 2011, 05:27:42 PM

Take some ram out of your computer so its insanely slow, and it gives you enough time between boot and when the virus executes to open task manager and end the process, then you can download malwarebytes and kill it.

Ghetto? Yes, but it works

Jasa 12265 · January 28, 2011, 05:31:33 PM

Quote from: Colten on January 28, 2011, 05:27:42 PM

Take some ram out of your computer so its insanely slow, and it gives you enough time between boot and when the virus executes to open task manager and end the process, then you can download malwarebytes and kill it.

Ghetto? Yes, but it works

May work, but at startup, it's already slow enough with 8 gigs of RAM.

As ghetto like the hot towel treatment on the Xbox.