What kind of virus is this?

Viruses and worms
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The last time I ran a full scan was a couple days ago on safe mode along with Malwarebytes and it never detected anything. Since then, I never downloaded anything at all. I did a full system scan today and I found this virus named “yy7982”. I have never seen or heard of that virus before. I never get viruses on my computer, so I’m wondering why I got this on my computer. Here’s a picture of it in my virus chest:

http://i.imgur.com/GhkzsVr.png

Does anyone know what this is or how it affected my computer? I tried to google it but nothing really came up.

EDIT: I have the aggressive option for hardened mode enabled, so I don’t know if that program ran by itself.

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yy7982
That is not the virus name......virus name is given on right side of your picture .... a dropper
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I’m pretty sure that’s the name for the specific type of virus. How do I know if it did any harm to my computer?

I probably worded the topic title in a wrong way. Sorry about that.

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No, the yy7982TY is the file name. The malware type is a Dropper. It looks like you unzipped the ZIP file it came in.

If you want to see if it caused Damage go here: http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=53253.0

Attach MAlwareBytes/OTL/aswMBR

aswMBR is only for Windows 7

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I'm pretty sure that's the name for the specific type of virus.
as said that is the file name...that tell nada as it can be named anything the virus name is given by avast in top righet corner of your picture W32:Dropper-gen [drp]

dropper http://malware.wikia.com/wiki/Dropper

symantec http://www.symantec.com/security_response/writeup.jsp?docid=2002-082718-3007-99

you can upload and test suspicious files here www.virustotal.com / www.metascan-online.com / www.jotti.org

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So attaching these four files will determine whether the dropper caused damage on my computer? By the way, I don’t remember unzipping the file. I don’t even know how it got to my computer.

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Yes… Malware experts Will be notified and check The logs, it may take some hours before they are online

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It looks as though it was never allowed to run. A HTML file was saved to the documents folder on the 18th

Warning This fix is only relevant for this system and no other, using on another computer may cause problems

Be advised that when the fix commences it will shut down all running processes and you may lose the desktop and icons, they will return on reboot

Run OTL

[*]Under the Custom Scans/Fixes box at the bottom, paste in the following

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/73555776/OTL_Fix.GIF


:Commands
[CREATERESTOREPOINT]

:Files
C:\Users\Family\Documents\yy7982Ty
C:\Users\Family\Documents\yy7982Ty\yy7982ty.*
C:\Users\Family\Documents\yy7982ty.*

:Commands
[resethosts]
[emptytemp]
[Reboot]

[*]Then click the Run Fix button at the top
[*]Let the program run unhindered, reboot the PC when it is done
[*]Open OTL again and click the Quick Scan button. Post the log it produces in your next reply.

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Sorry for the late response.

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It might take another hourish for Essex to answer

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That’s a little unfortunate for me since school starts in about an hour.

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Essexboy is usually available to midnight european time

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Are you experiencing any problems ?

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My computer seems to be running normally. I just wanted to make sure that the virus didn’t do any kind of harm to my computer. I never get any viruses on my computer, and this is the first time in years since I got one, so I was just a little frightened. Do I need to provide you with any other logs?

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Nope, it appears that no harm was done. The OTL scan gave no indication of any malware, it appears to be gained when you downloaded a web page for some reason or other

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Hi there again,

A couple of days ago, I accidentally installed a couple of PuP programs. I successfully uninstalled all of them and ran a full scan of my computer with Avast, Malwarebytes, and SuperAntiSpyware. Everyone seems to be okay up to this point, but hours later after I successfully uninstalled the PuP programs and ran a full scan with those programs, cmd opened up once and my internet seemed a bit slower than usual. Everything up to today seems to be fine. I just want to be sure that my computer is free of adware and malware.

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Looks clean run a quick Adwcleaner clean

Please download AdwCleaner by Xplode onto your desktop.

[*]Close all open programs and internet browsers.
[*]Double click on AdwCleaner.exe to run the tool.
[*]Click on Scan.
[*]After the scan is complete click on “Clean”
[*]Confirm each time with Ok.
[*]Your computer will be rebooted automatically. A text file will open after the restart.
[*]Please post the content of that logfile with your next answer.
[*]You can find the logfile at C:\AdwCleaner[S1].txt as well.

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Thank you. It says [S3] instead of [S1] for some reason.

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How is the computer behaving now ?

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Everything is working how it is supposed to. Thanks.