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Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2326 Joined: 8 Dec 2007     | |
BANNED  Posts: 6314 Joined: 29 Nov 2007    | Run a virus scan, that should locate it and be able to remove it. User was banned for: The hypocrisy is KILLING me.. (Permanent) |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 2326 Joined: 8 Dec 2007 | Right, I've got Zone Alarm virus scan going right now. It's found two viruses... |
Muckraker  Posts: 253 Joined: 10 Dec 2008     | What trojan, or do you know? I'd try any of the following, preferably in this order: If you know what trojan it is, tell us and we may be able to help you *-Free program |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 2326 Joined: 8 Dec 2007 | I have almost all of those. Spybot kept removing it and it kept coming back, AVG removed some stuff but now it can't find any more stuff. Then Zone is now actually finding stuff. I believe I downloaded this trojan whilst trying to obtain a media codec, if that helps. It's opening up invisable windows now and again and just plays the audio from movies. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1339 Joined: 21 Nov 2008     |
spyware doctor game my computer viruses , that was an epic fail |
BANNED  Posts: 2499 Joined: 19 Aug 2008   | My friend got the same thing, the tard bought a new PC instead of getting it fixed. If you're plugged in the internet maybe when you remove the trogan and it re downloads its self maybe its because its plugged into the net? User was banned for: Poll: Round 5 - Field of Four - (1) Turbine vs (1) Nintendo. (Permanent) |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1942 Joined: 23 Dec 2007    | Where did you pick this up, after a program install or web browsing or *web browising ;)* Edit: By check I mean delete |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 2326 Joined: 8 Dec 2007 | I was trying to download a codec to play a .mkv file and I downloaded one and then I downloaded a second movie in .mkv, all seemed fine. I went to sleep, I wake up, my dad's restarted the computer and now everything's gone all wrong. |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 1942 Joined: 23 Dec 2007 |
Have you deleated those files? Oh yeah have you restarted your pc since then? |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 2326 Joined: 8 Dec 2007 | I just discovered 2 .mkv codecs lurking around in my temp folders, even though I cleared said temp folders. This is looking pretty bad. It seems to be a trojan that reproduces each time I restart my computer. |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 1942 Joined: 23 Dec 2007 | BTW I suggest you save any important files to disk. Incase you got anything worse lurking about. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1234 Joined: 9 Sep 2008   | I use SuperAntiSpyware. Looks dodgy, but it clears up windowsantivirus2009 and all similar ones loaded from codecs in a jiff. |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 2326 Joined: 8 Dec 2007 | I get the feeling I'm gonna need to format and then burn my pc in the fires of Hades. |
Muckraker Posts: 253 Joined: 10 Dec 2008 |
Did you get it legally? If not it may have been the uploader's fault. |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 1942 Joined: 23 Dec 2007 |
You get used to it. I've had a virus go into my motherboard twice, which then spread onto anything trying try to load an OS. |
On the Record  Posts: 6852 Joined: 23 Dec 2007   | If it tells you the location of the infected file but neglects to do anything, go and delete the file yourself. Also take note of it so you can replace it. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1355 Joined: 13 Oct 2008   |
Hmmm, that one sounds familiar. Does it bring up a picture with spiders or something walking over your screen, flash a big sign that tells you that your computer is infected, prompt you to click on a text box? If it is what I think it is, the only option for me was to reboot my PC. The sneaky part about that virus was that it was self replicating, and every time you restarted your PC, it would replicate, change names and directory locations. Very sneaky, and a huge pain in the ass to get rid of. Let me know if the above symptoms are what you're experiencing and I might be able to help pinpoint the virus. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2411 Joined: 20 Jul 2008     | Reformating is for fools. If I reformat, its like admitting that the virus has won. Find what type of virus it is and find what program can stop it. SUPERAntiSpyware is on the best protection utilities available in my opinion. It has stopped many dangerous trojans and fixed many that other programs couldn't even find. Bit more advice. If it is a trojan that crashes your computer; boot the computer up in safe mode and then load SUPERAntiSpyware so it won't crash. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2807 Joined: 29 Dec 2007 | System restore maybe? |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 2326 Joined: 8 Dec 2007 | The virus appears to be of the self-replicating **** variety. It constantly assaults me with adverts whilst I browse, even at this very moment. It also appears that it is inactive until I start up FireFox, at which point it goes psycho on my pasty white self. I have spent roughly 10 hours attempting to remove it now, I'll give this one more day before I just take a magnet to my hardrive. |
Art Director  Posts: 523 Joined: 13 Jun 2002     | This sounds very familiar. Go into File Explorer, and change the 'View' to Details. Tell me if you see what looks like textual advertisements in the fields where date and filesize should me. |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 2326 Joined: 8 Dec 2007 | I do believe I've discovered my solution and my problem. http://www.megaleecher.net/Fixing_Trojan-Downloader.JS.Timul.cv |
Pulitzer Laureate Posts: 911 Joined: 11 Sep 2008  | To be honest if its screwing your system up THAT much. 1. Wipe it. It won't take long to reformat and reinstall everything (two days at MOST) 2. Stop looking at dodgy sites. 3. Get a decent firewall and AV (like zonealarm and Avast. They works REALLY well together) Also: For those who says reformatting is bad...they are idiots. Retards. Go put your computer away and don't touch it ever again as you are too stupid to be allowed to operate one. Wiping will give him a FRESH INSTALL. Meaning no virus, no clutter, no mess. Everything gets sorted out. AND while hes reformatting he can set a partition up as a storage drive so that if his c: get infected again he doesn't have to back stuff up constantly. He can simply wipe the main partition and reinstall his basic programs and OS. Once again, wiping is you're friend, those who deny this need to be banned from touching computers. Yes while it is a pain in the ass to get everything back on it, with a self replicator its a guaranteed fix, end of story. Better to start afresh and kill it for sure than mess around with tools and never quite know. |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 2326 Joined: 8 Dec 2007 | I had discovered that is was not a self-replicator, is was a kind of... tracking beacon that allowed adware trojans a backdoor into my PC. It was the spy sappin' my sentry, if you will. |
Copy Clerk  Posts: 96 Joined: 18 Jun 2008   |
Then there's something you have to check. See if there's any alternate DNS servers setup in your LAN connection. This could cause these problems. Also, for Antivirus I use Avast Antivirus, it seems to be one of the most reliable ones that i've seen so far, the only downside on that one is that when it's updating that it uses quite a lot of resources. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1332 Joined: 8 Nov 2008    | http://info.prevx.com/downloadprevx.asp I dunno if you can still get a free trial, but I got this once (free trial) It is insanely thorough. |
Copy Clerk  Posts: 78 Joined: 19 Nov 2008  | my anti-virus software cant remove the trojan downloader.. it deleted some trojan viruses but not the downloader.. huhu i have bit defender.. i updated it and not working still.. |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 2326 Joined: 8 Dec 2007 | Oh my GOD! Help! I found out what this thing is, but I don't know what to do! It's called Gadcom.exe and it's really, really well coded. God damn, this thing's like PC flu. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 3632 Joined: 4 May 2008    | I'm seconding System Restore. It works for me like a dream - just make sure that you won't lose any files. You get to it as so; Start, Help and Support, then it should be under "Pick a task..." Choose a time before the virus hit, then restore and reboot the computer. Run anti-spyware afterwards just to be sure. If you can't find it, give me a shout. |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 2326 Joined: 8 Dec 2007 | No, you don't understand! This thing cripples system restore! It appears to have wiped my system restore data as well as having infested my registry and win32 folders. |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 3632 Joined: 4 May 2008 |
Crap. Check the relevant System32 folders to see if something is out of place or seems to be the virus. If you find anything, let us know before you delete anything. The last thing we want is to accidentally make you delete some of your major system files. |
Infamous Scribbler  Posts: 584 Joined: 27 Mar 2008 | Try getting a small cheap hard drive and installing windows onto it and then booting from that hard drive. You could try to fix the other hard drive while running a non-infected version of windows or you could just copy over all you need and wipe your existing hard drive. |
Paperboy Posts: 12 Joined: 21 Feb 2008   | http://www.oral8.cn/viruscom/viruscom_31930.html This site has instructions for the removal of Gadcom.exe. Whether or not it actually works is beyond my ability to say. Best of luck. |
Infamous Scribbler  Posts: 651 Joined: 24 Apr 2008   | A very nice way to destroy virus's is to run Linux(you can even get OS's that run from a disc now) and wipe it out from there as it won't be attatched to anything in that OS. But...if I were you I would definately format and start again. |
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My computer has been heavily infected by a trojan of some sort, according to all three of the programs I use to defend my pc.
It is repeatadly opening up windows, telling me I have spyware and making programs crash. I am really stuck here.