G’day guys,
Found your posts after formatting and reinstalling from the devastating results of Win32:vitro.
Before I come across avast I was using AVG and spybot search and destroy, neither of these helped in preventing the virus from infecting my system. AVG did tell me a file had been infected but didn’t tell me that it was too late… Devastation had already started.
I had left AVG scanning over night, when I can back the next morning my isp had locked my account down because of the virus spamming. This was the 2nd hint I was infected with something serious.
Anyway, Avast did remove the virus (delete/move to chest) but as many of you know, important windows files get infected. I think a repair install may have repaired windows but I didn’t want to take the chance. One good thing with this virus, is didn’t infect my 200 GB of nikon raw files. Being a photographer this would have been the worst thing…
This forum would have been a massive help if I knew about it before the virus took a real hold on my system.
Thanks guys
