Viruses viruses viruses !! HELP!!?

Yes, your computer is infected, but the advisory "virus scan" popup IS the virus!

There are evil people in this world who basically have going around hijacking people's internet browsers by use of what is called "phishing" schemes.

Phishers can duplicate a person's "myspace" and/or other social network internet pages, and then manipulate and change that page by hiding malicious code inside the "source code". They then also also "hijack" your browser and redirect it to their new page, which then installs their malware into your computer, causing all kinds of evil mischeif.

If you EVER again get a popup that starts running and tells you that you have viruses, trojans, etc., and tries to get you to use their virus scan--don't do it! What they are trying to do is get you to purchase their completely useless program, so they can get you to input your credit number, which they will then steal!

First, I recommend you try "Malwarebites" which is free, and you can download from cnet.com CNet is a legitimate and very reliable site which checks the downloads they offer to ensure they don't contain any viruses, trojans or any other evil software.

I recommend trying "Malwarebites" because I've used it on other people's computers who had a similar problem, and it did work to remove this type of virus, when other antivirus programs failed.

However, craftly viruses such as this frequently protect and defend themselves against antivirus programs such as "Malwarebites." They will do this sometimes by preventing the installation of the antivirus programs, or by feezing up the program or even your entire computer, making it almost impossible to remove them.

To get around the viruses defenses, you can download the installation program for the antivirus program from another computer, and put it on a DVD or "flash drive." Then start your computer in "safe mode". To start your computer in "safe mode" during the startup you just keep tapping on the F8 key until it opens a window where you can select "start in safe mode".

Safe mode will only load the startup programs absolutely necessary to operate your computer, and will not load the virus, enabling you to then install the antivirus program from your flash drive and run it to detect and remove the virus.

However if Malwarebites DOESN'T remove this virus, there's 3 alternatives I recommend.

First, follow the procedures above to start your computer in "safe mode", and then see if you can restore your computer to an earlier date--before the date it got infected. To do this, after starting in "safe mode", go to the "start" menu on your computer and select, "all programs", then select "accessories" and then select "system tools" and finally select "system tools". Then follow the prompts to restore your computer to an earlier date, which should completely remove the virus, along with all changes made to your computer without removing any of your other files or recent work. (You can also easily reverse the restore.)

However, REALLY crafty evil viruses won't LET you restore your system to an earlier date. So you will now have to see if you can find another antivirus program specific to that particular virus.

To do this, go on the internet and google the name of the virus scan the virus told you to use, along with the word "remove" and see if any of the results will provide you with a antivirus program that detects and removes the specific virus. If so, I recommend seeing whether you can download it from cnet.com as Cnet is a safe download site that checks all programs to ensure they are virus free.

Alternatively, there may not be any free antivirus programs for that particular virus (unlikely though) and it is possible that instead, you may have to remove it manually.

As most manual virus removal procedures require you to make changes to the registry of your computer. I'm assuming you don't know much about the "regedit" procedures as you asked for help with virus removal, however this can be dangerous, and may not be a good idea to attempt to do yourself.

The final solution and last resort, is to reinstall windows and all your drivers and programs. Sometimes there's no other choice, but hopefully, it won't come to that.

Hope this helps, best of luck!

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That was scareware urging you to hit its website. Since you went there, it may now have downloaded some real malware. It's now time for some real scans.

If you have an anti-virus, make sure it has the latest virus definitions and run a scan with it in Safe Mode or Safe Mode with Networking. That often prevents malware from protecting itself. If you don’t have one, many people here swear by AVG (it’s free).

I suggest you also download Ad-Aware Free and Spybot S&D (they’re free), install them, update them and run them, again in Safe Mode With Networking.

Also, turn off System Restore to evict any copies of bad stuff that might be lurking there.

To get into Safe Mode or Safe Mode with Networking:

1. Log out and reboot your machine.

2. When the machine starts the reboot sequence, press the F8 key repeatedly.

3. Select Safe Mode or Safe Mode with Networking from the resulting menu.

4. Login. If the malware has changed your password, try logging in as Administrator. By default, Administrator has no password.

5. The machine will continue booting, but the Windows desktop will look different.

6. When you're finished doing what you need to do, log out and reboot back into normal mode.

Note that even if the anti-malware programs get rid of the malware, they may not be able to reverse the effects. Search the Web for possible fixes.

Update and run everything regularly, not just when you think you already have malware.

Good luck.

That was scareware urging you to hit its website. Since you went there, it may now have downloaded some real malware. It's now time for some real scans. If you have an anti-virus, make sure it has the latest virus definitions and run a scan with it in Safe Mode or Safe Mode with Networking. That often prevents malware from protecting itself. If you don’t have one, many people here swear by AVG (it’s free). I suggest you also download Ad-Aware Free and Spybot S&D (they’re free), install them, update them and run them, again in Safe Mode With Networking. Also, turn off System Restore to evict any copies of bad stuff that might be lurking there. To get into Safe Mode or Safe Mode with Networking: 1. Log out and reboot your machine. 2. When the machine starts the reboot sequence, press the F8 key repeatedly. 3. Select Safe Mode or Safe Mode with Networking from the resulting menu. 4. Login. If the malware has changed your password, try logging in as Administrator. By default, Administrator has no password. 5. The machine will continue booting, but the Windows desktop will look different. 6. When you're finished doing what you need to do, log out and reboot back into normal mode. Note that even if the anti-malware programs get rid of the malware, they may not be able to reverse the effects. Search the Web for possible fixes. Update and run everything regularly, not just when you think you already have malware. Good luck.

If you had avast! Free edition when the trojans attacked all that would happen is "Virus detected!" and you hit remove to chest. But since you got a sucky anti-virus or none, You need to do a RAM scan in avast! free so it stops ALL trojans/viruses/spyware running on your pc and then do a scan so it can remove em all after stopping em all.

HOPE THAT HELPED!

It seems like it is a pop up window. But the main question is here, do you have a virus protection program?

1. Avira

2. Malwarebytes

3. Avast

4. AVG

5. Superantyspy

Be carefull with Combofix, since you can destroy your PC with it, unless you know how to use it.

Chances are it was just a website with a fake scanner/popup messages... but to be safe:

http://combofix.org/ -- follow the instructions and run the program, it should get rid of nearly all the viruses and crap.

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http://haxr.mybrute.com/ -- Fun game!

Listen to me, get the norton 360 anti virus program, its a 90day free trial. I have it on my computer. I think this is the best anti virus program, it wont slow down your computer like other softwares.

http://www.symantecstore.com/dr/sat2/ec_main.entry...

The ad Is called Scareware (Scareware isn't a virus) but its an ad that says your PC is infected and tells you to download antivirus, but the antivirus is the virus

you dont have a virus its just a pop up just exit it everytime it pops up. you should buy internet security so you dont get pop ups