Posted:
I need to know if anyone besides me has been a victim of the new trojan called "Antivirus 2008" or its duplicate "Antivirus 2009"...
Symptoms include:
-Excessive popups stating that your system is at risk and you have a virus
-IE homepage gets changed to a virus protection site
-You're shown virus scan results from a program you never installed
-You're continuously prompted to install Antivirus 2008/2009
-Random tabs/websites keep opening themselves and there is a red warning next to the system time
If you're experiencing any of these symptoms, you're PC has been infected with the trojan. At least 21 files get infected, and not all virus protection programs help you.
I've experienced this trojan about 5 times in a month. Twice, I reformatted my system so that everything went back to Day 1, erasing all my programs. The third time, I ran an anti-malware program and cleaned my system out. downloading AVG, one of the best anti-virus programs out there....
It popped up again yesterday, and then today, I turn my computer on and guess what? It's back.
I've gotten rid of it, but even the best anti-virus programs cant heal it. And what's weird is the fact that I've only visited I-F and a secured web mail server (for school and it didn't contain any popups so that cant be it). Whenever I open the I-F homepage, I get a warning that there's a trojan in the system processes or temp internet files.
So basically I can't visit I-F if I don't want to keep getting infected by this thing.
Now, I'm not blaming I-F for this. It's more like I-F's sponsors.
The sponsored links/ads are most likely the culprit here. Fake ads from third party sites that appear on the safest of sites contain this trojan which makes a place for itself in your PC, and its all downhill from there.
I know I-F cant really be blamed here, but Vijay, cant some of those ads be blocked? I get excessive popups and one accidental click, boom, infected system.
Request to members: Just to confirm if I-Fsponsor's ads really are to blame, can people who think they're PC's are inspected just drop by and tell what happened/how?
~Madzz
P.S - There's an easy fix to the infection if anyone needs it:
Download Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware and run it twice. If you're asked to reboot, do that. It'll remove all the infections, guaranteed. Run it a 3rd time if you feel the need to do so...
Anyone with questions, don't hesitate to PM me :)
Symptoms include:
-Excessive popups stating that your system is at risk and you have a virus
-IE homepage gets changed to a virus protection site
-You're shown virus scan results from a program you never installed
-You're continuously prompted to install Antivirus 2008/2009
-Random tabs/websites keep opening themselves and there is a red warning next to the system time
If you're experiencing any of these symptoms, you're PC has been infected with the trojan. At least 21 files get infected, and not all virus protection programs help you.
I've experienced this trojan about 5 times in a month. Twice, I reformatted my system so that everything went back to Day 1, erasing all my programs. The third time, I ran an anti-malware program and cleaned my system out. downloading AVG, one of the best anti-virus programs out there....
It popped up again yesterday, and then today, I turn my computer on and guess what? It's back.
I've gotten rid of it, but even the best anti-virus programs cant heal it. And what's weird is the fact that I've only visited I-F and a secured web mail server (for school and it didn't contain any popups so that cant be it). Whenever I open the I-F homepage, I get a warning that there's a trojan in the system processes or temp internet files.
So basically I can't visit I-F if I don't want to keep getting infected by this thing.
Now, I'm not blaming I-F for this. It's more like I-F's sponsors.
The sponsored links/ads are most likely the culprit here. Fake ads from third party sites that appear on the safest of sites contain this trojan which makes a place for itself in your PC, and its all downhill from there.
I know I-F cant really be blamed here, but Vijay, cant some of those ads be blocked? I get excessive popups and one accidental click, boom, infected system.
Request to members: Just to confirm if I-Fsponsor's ads really are to blame, can people who think they're PC's are inspected just drop by and tell what happened/how?
~Madzz
P.S - There's an easy fix to the infection if anyone needs it:
Download Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware and run it twice. If you're asked to reboot, do that. It'll remove all the infections, guaranteed. Run it a 3rd time if you feel the need to do so...
Anyone with questions, don't hesitate to PM me :)
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