[pchelpers] Re: Adware Virtumonde

Hi Scott,

  Thanks much. I sent a reply but ecartis caught me for not breaking the 
data stream in chunks and called it over quoting.

Thought I would try a System restore to an earlier date and sure enough 
that worked.  Apparently it dumped the virtumonde pest with its files 
since it has not showed up since that operation.

Had an antivirus installed provided by AT&T our ISP. Up until this 
glitch it seemed to be doing the job but now I went back to my old 
favorite AVG.  Tried installing Avira some months ago when it was 
recommended but at that time decided to go back to AVG.



Scott McNay wrote:
> Hi Cy,
>
> Have you tried the free version of Avira? I seem to recall seeing
> Virtumundo reported somewhere or other on a system that I was working
> on, but it wasn't an issue.
>
> Hmm, based on what I see, it's similar or related to a pest that I had
> trouble removing. If you know what the infected files are, but can't
> remove them (or they come back), what you can do is change the
> security settings on those files so that they can't be executed
> (right-click, Properties, Security, Advanced, for each item click
> Edit, and put a check mark in the Deny box for the Execute item).
> Restart, and you should then be able to clean it out.
>
>   

> --Scott.
>
> Friday, August 22, 2008, 7:01:21 PM, you wrote:
>
> CH> The Adware Virtumonde showed up on my Vista system. How do I get
> CH> rid of it. Seems that all the advice on line seems to be for
> CH> Windows XP. Apparently the manual process to get rid of it is
> CH> quite complex, both files and Registry entries.
>
> CH> Anyone know of a program to remove this beast. I am running Ad
> CH> Aware 2008 on the system right now hoping it will be able to
> CH> identify it and remove it.
>
>
>   


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