I believe that last night my computer got infected with a Vundo Virus.
the symptoms of my computer are the disabling of windows auto updates, and an error 1058 when i try to reactivate it.
I also can not access google or facebook, these sites just stall forever in firefox and IE.
I have the latest version of avast! home version and have auto detector turned on, last night i performed a system scan but came up with nothing, i’m currently in the process of running a boot scan. I’m not sure if i’ll be able to provide technical details of the problem because internet from the infected computer is very temperamental.
No luck i’m affraid, the boot scan found quite a few viruses but when i got to windows the problem was still there. If i had to guess it either missed the key virus files (.dll files i believe from reading other forums) or the key files have a way to replace themselves.
Am not really sure what to do now, the computer isn’t very useful while it’s infected, are there other programs that i could install to try and fix it? do you think that avast will release a new virus definition file soon to deal with this problem? i’m sure i can’t be the only person to get the virus.
If you haven’t already got this software (freeware), download, install, update and run it, preferably in safe mode and report the findings (it should product a log file).
I had a go with those software item, had to run them a few times and Malware never ended up working as it froze each time. but i may have got somewhere, since i can actually use this computer again. I’ll run a few more scans to keep looking for bits that may have gotten through
Maybe, after running SUPERantispyware and/or MalwareBytes Anti-Malware you could try full computer on-line scanning: Kaspersky (very good detection rates) ESET NOD32 Trendmicro housecall F-Secure BitDefender (free removal of the malware)
