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rokricky
Joined: 18 Feb 2006 Location: Yongsan, Seoul
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Posted: Fri Mar 06, 2009 10:51 pm Post subject: I have a virus |
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I have a virus. I've only just recognized it but I suspect I've been passing this virus on to all of my computers via infected flash cards. How can I get rid of it from my computers and flash drives. I also fond it on my brand new external HD. I find it in the form of shahadeen jpg. Could it also be infecting my Mp3 player?
This is the virus
Reva.vbs
VBScript. Will try to spread itsself to every time drive in your computer including drive flash the disk. In drive was infected will be gotten file reva.vbs, autorun.inf, and shaheedan.jpg. Moreover, it will then change the page default from the Explorer Internet in order to head to the site [mod edit] |
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hanguker
Joined: 16 Mar 2005 Location: Korea
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Posted: Fri Mar 06, 2009 11:50 pm Post subject: |
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Do a low-level format on your drives. Google it for appropriate software. |
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bassexpander
Joined: 13 Sep 2007 Location: Someplace you'd rather be.
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Posted: Sat Mar 07, 2009 2:31 am Post subject: |
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Download a free 1 month trial of kaspersky from www.kaspersky.com and clean it off that way. |
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wormholes101

Joined: 11 Mar 2003
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drkalbi

Joined: 06 Aug 2006
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Posted: Sat Mar 07, 2009 6:38 am Post subject: |
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Stay away from those ladies on Hooker Hill  |
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bassexpander
Joined: 13 Sep 2007 Location: Someplace you'd rather be.
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Posted: Sat Mar 07, 2009 4:29 pm Post subject: |
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No it's not. Avira is, actually.
I invite you to look at page 5 of AVComparatives, one of the most respected 3rd party testers:
http://www.av-comparatives.org/seiten/ergebnisse/summary2008.pdf
The reason I chose Kaspersky for the above situation is that I have personally found it finds/kills viruses much more easily once they are in your system. I had Avira for a while, but it kept causing blue screens on my computer. I had NOD32 for a month as well, and liked it, but it was having troubles fully cleaning a virus we had difficulty with here. |
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wormholes101

Joined: 11 Mar 2003
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Posted: Sun Mar 08, 2009 3:31 pm Post subject: |
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Well, interesting. I'm going to try out NOD after my current version of Kaspersky expires.
I find Kaspersky good but I don't like the false positives. NOD claims they have no false positives. We will see.
Anyhow, I looked at that file and it looks like Avira and NOD rank very similar. I didn't know it was such a good antivirus. |
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bassexpander
Joined: 13 Sep 2007 Location: Someplace you'd rather be.
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Posted: Sun Mar 08, 2009 4:51 pm Post subject: |
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Personally, if I were to pay for one, I'd buy Kaspersky in Korea. The reason is that Kaspersky gives full Korean support and the price is much better here. You can buy a fully legal 2 year subscription of Kaspersky Internet Security for 35,000 won if you know where to look. The box is Korean, but if you download the English trial from their site, you can use the Korean key to activate the English. My wife's computer worked like this.
Avira is prohibitively expensive (costs in Euro) as is NOD32.
Yeah, I know there are torrents, but you're opening yourself up to some serious exploits if you use them for AV software.
There are some good free AV programs, too:
1. AVG
2. Avast
3. Comodo (I'm testing this one right now) |
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Demophobe

Joined: 17 May 2004
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Posted: Mon Mar 09, 2009 5:12 am Post subject: |
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Ahnlabs here. Hasn't found a virus yet.
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bassexpander
Joined: 13 Sep 2007 Location: Someplace you'd rather be.
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Posted: Mon Mar 09, 2009 5:53 pm Post subject: |
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Demophobe wrote: |
Ahnlabs here. Hasn't found a virus yet.
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dimnd
Joined: 19 May 2005 Location: Western USA
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Posted: Fri Mar 13, 2009 7:44 pm Post subject: virus.Malwarebytes.org |
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we use Malwarebytes.org
that is what the tech told us at WOW..and other games...it is great! |
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Underwaterbob

Joined: 08 Jan 2005 Location: In Cognito
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Posted: Tue Mar 17, 2009 3:28 am Post subject: |
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I have the most obnoxious something or other ever. A noticed that when extracting a couple zip files I downloaded, the exe files wouldn't unzip. I tride a few different zip utilities and none of them could detect anything wrong with the zip files. Thinking maybe they were corrupt, I plopped them onto a flash drive and brought them to work where I easily, successfully unzipped them and plopped the files back onto the drive. I got home and plugged the drive into the computer, went into the directories to copy the files to the computer and watched in horror as the exes disappeared before my very eyes.
I've blasted the crap out of my computer with every freeware spyware, adware, virus, malware detector/destroyer out there to no avail. I've found a couple references to disappearing exes on some anti-virus forums, but it's usually exes that have something to do with anti-virus software that are the victims. Does anyone have a solution, or had to deal with this themselves? |
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Julius

Joined: 27 Jul 2006
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Posted: Mon Apr 27, 2009 2:50 am Post subject: |
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Underwaterbob wrote: |
I've blasted the crap out of my computer with every freeware spyware, adware, virus, malware detector/destroyer out there to no avail. |
That could well be part of your problem right there.
DO NOT download "free" anti-spyware software. Think about it. Why would they give it you free? Half of it is disguised infected malware.
Be careful about paying for stuff online with your credit card details as well. If your computer is already infected, you are taking unecessary risk.
I suggest you go and buy some top quality anti-spyware on CD. Pay in cash. |
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blackjack

Joined: 04 Jan 2006 Location: anyang
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Underwaterbob

Joined: 08 Jan 2005 Location: In Cognito
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Posted: Mon Apr 27, 2009 4:06 pm Post subject: |
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I uninstalled a certain piece of pirated software and the problem went away.
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