DO NOT VISIT THIS WEB SITE OR YOU MIGHT CONTRACT A VIRUS. BUT, ALL I KNOW IS THAT I VISTED IT AND IT SHUT DOWN MY COMPUTER. IN FACT, EVERYTIME I VISIT IT, IT WILL SHUTDOWN MY COMPUTER.
SO, I WILL POST THE URL TO THE SITE, BUT DO NOT CLICK ON IT
DO NOT CLICK ON IT
I REPEAT, DO NOT VISIT THIS SITE.
ok, the site is www DOT gmbar DOT com
I was hoping that some of the professionals at avast could help me out.
I clicked on the google cache for this site, and my computer screen went black, then my monitor started to turn off and on ever second.
I have windows xp x64. I was using firefox. I will reformat/repartition my drive.
Could any of you employees at avast figure out what the heck this is?
Well, my computer has been acting strange, ie AV and Firewall not working properly. I have had random black screens, yet, it is odd that visiting a web site would cause this.
Also, I am wondering if it is some flash expliot, do you have flash.
Becasue I saw in the html file that it was running flash.
It is still scanning, but I did notice something odd in the registry:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/Microsoft/`ko$8
And, that was never there before and it is blank.
Also, what was odd is that in my avast firewall log, there was this user: åõa}0aí
åõa}0aí, is not a user on my system.
Also, I am having recovered file fragments show up in My Documents.
UPDATE:
I just now noticed that rootkit revealer crashes whenever I run it. AND, it worked about 3 days ago. Even redownloading it does not fix the issue.
I found a virus during an online scan. It is called Casper, a file infector. I saved it to a floppy disk before I wiped my hard drives. Although, I have a feeling that this might be a false positive because even after reformating, my computer was acting haywire. I found that out of 3 of my raid zero hard drives, 1 had smart turned on, the others had it off. The one with smart on had many reallocated bad sectors and some seek problems. Now, I don’t know if this is caused by a bad cable (I have a IDE to SATA converter), bad Hard Drive, or bad power supply. The reason I think it could be the PSU is that I bought 4 generic power supplies from a local computer shop for a buisniess, 4 of them failed. And, I bought an Antec from them and I suspect it might be failing. So, I bought a really tight power supply tester.
Anyways, the point is, I will later upload you the virus file and if it is a real virus, then I hope it helps avast. If not, oh well.
I have been using an Antec True Power 480 for several years and it hasn’t so much as had a hiccup considering the damage a failed PSU can cause it is a false economy to get a cheap no-name PSU.
However with 4HDDs and your RAM, Graphics and other peripherals I would imagine that you would need a fairly high power PSU 600 plus probably if you have powerful graphics/SLi.