Watch Out For This Computer Virus!

[theone1982]

I just wanted to drop this info in here about a virus that I have just dealt with, called Windows Recovery. It shows up like it's a legit warning and says that there are major problems with your hard drive, and then hides all of your programs and files. It then proceeds to tell you that you have to purchase an "Advanced Module" to fix the problem. DON'T DO IT! This is not legit at all! It took me awhile to fix the problem and it's a real pain in the ass. Here's a link to take you step-by-step through how to get rid of it, and a screenshot of what it look like so you'll know what your dealing with.http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/viru...ndows-recovery

[ILuvFetish]

Happened to me also a few months ago.
Takes awhile to get rid of it.
No need to buy what they're trying to sell you to fix it

[kittyKaiti]

I got hit by that thing on my old laptop. It's a web browser hijacker that hides in websites pages. I was on my Myspace account when it hijacked my page and downloaded itself onto my laptop. It proceeded to shut off and disable my virus protection and locked me off from accessing many websites claiming they are infested with viruses. Then it turned off my sound card and disabled a bunch of things saying they are malware. I managed to download PC Tools Spyware Doctor with Anti-Virus and it fixed everything. That laptop ended up dying anyway because of the damage done to the hard drive from the virus. Since then I run into it several times with my new laptop on sites like xTube and Myspace. I still have the PC Tools program and also Webroot SpySweeper and they both stop it everytime from downloading. I used to have Avast and that can't stop the virus.

[omni69]

Oh yeah, that got a lot of people I know including me (but I infected myself on purpose to see how to fix it) since I do computer support,

and yes it took a while for me to fix mine too.. it even changes its name too , most recent one going around is system failure or just hard drive error click here for scan, it even disabled the task manager so you can't end it. I tell everyone if any of these pop - up, just hold down the power button on their computer and force a shut down and most of the time that works,
because once you click anywhere on the page / window pop-up or try to X it out... you're giving it permission to get into your computer and therefor bypassing your antivirus software..
so becareful people

the instructions you linked here is good..

[omni69]

Oh by the way KittyKaiti, you're hot

[sunairco]

These spyware/malware/pseudo windows message pop-ups have been around for quite a while. Best thing to do is ctrl+alt+delete and close out the browser the minute you see it.

BTW, I've yet to hear any virus actually doing any form of physical damage to hardware Kitty. It's near impossible short of overwriting or corrupting a flash rom which can always be restored. While possible, I've never heard of any malware doing that except in proof-of-concept demonstrations. If somebody told you that, you've been had to sell you a new pc or drive.

It's been a while since any virus actually did any deletion or corruption to the files. The whole point now is to either turn your pc into a bot, steal info from your pc like passwords,address book files, and credit info, or hold your pc for ransom like the above.

[killkenny]

i got rid of itby using a back up but still my comp is slow and has files that try n start on load up, sometimes i cant use media player in firefox n my antivirus itself has to crash (symantec) before i can play also sometimes websites i load turn into different one that try to sell stuff

[Faldur]

Whats a virus?

[south ov da border]

and then they change your registry and leave a backdoor to come back in. I've had that registry issue and it sux...

[Dino Velvet]

I was the one that had that "Vista Security 2011" crap that installed itself on my computer. I downloaded Emsisoft Anti-Malware and Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware. They got rid of it plus some other nuisances.