I juist got hit with a bad virus like no other i have seen. The Virus appears to reside in the MBR. It does not allow me to see the screen which makes it difficult to get rid of it. I used a fix to remove it and it works temporarily but it appears to replicate and hide because I got the black screen again. When It was acting up, I ran AVAST but the only thing it could come up with was the PUP virus. I could not spend too much time on finding a solution so I had to end up buying a new computer. I had some backups but not all. The computer was old anyway Dual Core Pentium 3.35 GHZ. Windows XP. If anyone come across this virus let me know. I think my only option will be to reformat the hardrive.
PUP is not virus but Possible Unwanted Pogram…
Follow this guide and attach the logs from malwarebytes quick scan / OTL / aswMBR
If you are interested we could try to find the miscreant
OK next we will work outside of windows then Please print these instruction out so that you know what you are doing
[*]Download OTLPENet.exe to your desktop
[*]Download the attached scan.txt to a USB
[*]Ensure that you have a blank CD in the drive
[*]Double click OTLPENet.exe and this will then open imgburn to burn the file to CD
[*]Reboot your system using the boot CD you just created.
Note : If you do not know how to set your computer to boot from CD follow the steps here
[*]As the CD needs to detect your hardware and load the operating system, I would recommend a nice cup of tea whilst it loads
[*]Your system should now display a Reatogo desktop.
Note : as you are running from CD it is not exactly speedy
[*]Double-click on the OTLPE icon.
[*]Select the Windows folder of the infected drive if it asks for a location
[*]When asked “Do you wish to load the remote registry”, select Yes
[*]When asked “Do you wish to load remote user profile(s) for scanning”, select Yes
[*]Ensure the box “Automatically Load All Remaining Users” is checked and press OK
[*]OTL should now start
[*]Drag and drop the USB scan.txt into the Custom scans and fixes box, or double click the scan box
[*]Press Run Scan to start the scan.
[*]When finished, the file will be saved in drive C:\OTL.txt
[*]Copy this file to your USB drive if you do not have internet connection on this system
[*]Right click the file and select send to : select the USB drive.
[*]Confirm that it has copied to the USB drive by selecting it
[*]You can backup any files that you wish from this OS
[*]Please post the contents of the C:\OTL.txt file in your reply.