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Hello everybody! I’m here to share my experience about my pc infection by a rootkit virus “sinowal@MBR[rtk]” just 3 days ago.
First of all, I’d like to thank especially to essexboy and Pondus and to several other individuals in this forum. Without their dedicated posts, I couldn’t have solved the problem.
So here is the story…
With McAfee and Kaspersky installed on my office pc, I had previously thought that surfing the Internet was safe. How wrong I was. My Kaspersky’s virus database had been obsolete when the pc got infected by a series of viruses completely unknown to me.
I didn’t panic as I’d had such an experience before. I began to download popular antivirus software…Kaspersky Antivirus 2011, Kaspersky Internet Security, Avira AntiVir Personal, AVG and Spybot Search & Rescue. I did it one after another…installing a piece of software and uninstalling it to try the next one. Nothing helped. Apparently, the viruses seemed to prevent each piece of the software from running a successful installation. There was no way I could remove all the threats. I spent countless hours on the pc, trying to repeat the installation, restarted it, scanned it with the existing antivirus software again and again but to no avail. At first there were no immediate effects from the infection. Except from the pc froze during installation of most of the antivirus software, I could use it as usual, open my files, listen to the music, watch YouTube videos and browse the Internet. No problem at all. However, as I kept trying to install new antivirus software, it suddenly began to exhibit some kind of strange behavior I hadn’t had for more than a year. There were repeated losses in my Internet connection which I overcame by restarting the pc.
By 6 pm yesterday, some of the viruses found were successfully deleted. However, I knew there were hidden objects doing suspicious activities. So, I installed Avast which detected 3 other different threats on my pc. One of them, known as sinowal@mbr[rtk] couldn’t be removed. According to Wikipedia, it is a rootkit virus and can do severe harm to infected pcs and their users. That’s when I started to worry. I Google searched to learn more about the virus before stumbling across this forum. After reading several related posts, I installed and ran the Malwarebyte’s Anti-Malware. Two other infections were found and fixed. Then, came one of the most astonishing moments in my life as a pc user after I installed aswMBR on my pc. Not only was its installation very fast, but as soon as I ran it, the culprit was quickly recognized. In a matter of seconds, it was successfully removed from my system and my pc turned healthy again.
[color=purple]This post is sent to help others decide what they can do to solve the problem similar to mine. I do not mean to imply that all other antivirus software I mentioned in this post are of no good. Certainly, one software is better than the others under different circumstances
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