Author Topic: Possible Virus? (Read 2633 times)

Destroyer · August 23, 2009, 06:08:08 PM

Yesturday I was just roaming around on the forums and suddenly it quit me out of the current internet page and brought me too a page saying I have up to 64 critical trojan viruses on my computer, and wants me to pay money for it to fix them.

The thing is though, the site saying all this dosent sound legit. I have never heard of this program before and I am in no way subscribed to it. Aside from that, my current virus prtection program isn't locating anything this random program is talking about.

This apperant "protection program" DLed itself onto my computer and is not letting me delete it. It is also sending little pop-up messages saying there are viruses.

This program is called "Personal Antivirus".

Does this sound legit or has it happened to anyone else?

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Grumpy · August 23, 2009, 06:09:28 PM

Not legit

Link to remove here http://www.spywareremove.com/removePersonalAntivirus.html

DarthVolga · August 23, 2009, 06:10:12 PM

Pretty obvious it's just a scam. I've had these happen to me before plenty of times.

Camera · August 23, 2009, 06:12:43 PM

OMG, it's popping into my life!

System restore and wait 2 hours if that link doesn't work.

Gawd I hate those things.

Joker Card · August 23, 2009, 06:18:15 PM

thats a nice trojan you got there. its called Zlob

Comatose · August 23, 2009, 08:27:57 PM

It just has to be done

inb4spywarescan

.::Taboo::. · August 23, 2009, 08:30:56 PM

Quote from: Joker Card on August 23, 2009, 06:18:15 PM

thats a nice trojan you got there. its called Zlob research Adviser

It got me once.
D:

Chrono · August 23, 2009, 08:31:26 PM

You have scamware. Seek out possible fixes.

Miga · August 23, 2009, 08:32:27 PM

Edit: ...You downloaded the program?
Okay then.
Either system restore if you can, or use a good virus scanner/spyware scanner.

.::Taboo::. · August 23, 2009, 08:34:01 PM

Quote from: Miga on August 23, 2009, 08:32:27 PM

Guys.
You know nothing about these rogues, so shut up.

Okay, if that happened, don't worry. As long as you didn't download the program, you're fine.
Something similar happened when I was in STEAM, browsing on the In-Game browser. It popped up saying "Your computer is infected!", so I quit out of the game, and the first thing I did was check for malware/viruses/trojans/whatever. Nothing.

Again, as long as you didn't download the rogue, you're fine.

Man, did you even read that thread?
Everyone can already tell that what he's seeing IS the problem.
It's already gotten him, and because it's a bitch, it won't be uninstalled. And if I recall correctly, it somehow forgets up system restore.

General Nick · August 23, 2009, 08:34:04 PM

I don't see why we go to the Off Topic forum to fix malware. It's simple. Get something like AVG Free, scan it, fix it, forget it.

Or safe mode and system restore.
And all else fails, reformat.

Miga · August 23, 2009, 08:34:38 PM

Quote from: .::Taboo::. on August 23, 2009, 08:34:01 PM

Man, did you even read that thread?
Everyone can already tell that what he's seeing IS the problem.
It's already gotten him, and because it's a bitch, it won't be uninstalled. And if I recall correctly, it somehow forgets up system restore.

I just read that he actually has it. I thought it was just a website.
I feel like an idiot now, hah.

Yeah, he's not gonna be able to system restore, it does something to forget up the calendar.
Your best bet is to scan for viruses/malware, or reformat.

Camera · August 23, 2009, 08:37:48 PM

Quote from: Destroyer on August 23, 2009, 06:08:08 PM

Yesturday I was just roaming around on the forums and suddenly it quit me out of the current internet page and brought me too a page saying I have up to 64 critical trojan viruses on my computer, and wants me to pay money for it to fix them.

The thing is though, the site saying all this dosent sound legit. I have never heard of this program before and I am in no way subscribed to it. Aside from that, my current virus prtection program isn't locating anything this random program is talking about.

This apperant "protection program" DLed itself onto my computer and is not letting me delete it. It is also sending little pop-up messages saying there are viruses.

This program is called "Personal Antivirus".

Does this sound legit or has it happened to anyone else?

He said it downloaded itsellf and he couldn't stop it.

Miga · August 23, 2009, 08:39:26 PM

Quote from: Gen. Nick on August 23, 2009, 08:34:04 PM

I don't see why we go to the Off Topic forum to fix malware. It's simple. Get something like AVG Free, scan it, fix it, forget it.

That's another thing.
This rogue isn't going to let him download any other virus scanner, it'll just simply say that "this site may open your computer to security risks" and force you to go back.

At least, if it's as bad as Antivirus 2009.

Cody574 · August 23, 2009, 08:42:05 PM

I had this before.
I believe it's called vundo or something similar. I don't know of any antiviruses that can completely remove it from your computer - the last 2 times I got it, my computer had to be wiped.

It is called rogue antivirus/antispyware, which means it is tricking you into thinking that you have trojans and viruses on your computer. They want to scam you into paying them to fix the fake error. Ironically enough, it is a virus itself, and other real viruses or other rogue programs on your computer are a result of this.

An old friend of mine did say that he had a program called SuperAntiSpyware that did kill it, I haven't tried it myself, but it's worth a shot. I would recommend running scans in safe mode (mashing F9 when starting your computer) so that the viruses are prevented from starting and preventing the fake programs block scans from legit antivirus programs.