Hey all,
I have been having several pc problems lately. I need to know some info and get to the bottom of what’s going on. I had a virus simular to this on my pc the otherday, avast found it and I deleted it. Then the real trouble began. My pc was FINE this morning, then I went to my college classes and came home. I was going to check my emails but my pc was acting strange. Avast wouldn’t start and it kept saying it was corrupted, then my windows 7 theme standard was changed to windows classic and the icons on my taskbar were gone. I couldn’t even put icons on it at all after that. I was frustrated but decided it was best to just to wipe the drive, reformat, and install new. First thing I did was install avast free and malwarebytes, they were a few weeks old installers but I figured it would work just fine. I then did a full system scan with each and found nothing. So I connected to the net and updated windows, installed firefox, and flash player. I only went to sites with GOOD avast webrep ratings and my normal sites. I updated avast and malwarebytes and ran a full system scan again. Malwarebytes didn’t find anything, but avast found this “Win32:Small-BTX [Trj]” in my temp files. I have NO IDEA how it got on my pc that quick or how it got around malwarebytes and avast’s realtimes scanners.
I guess what I want to know is the following:
1: How did it get on my pc?
2:Will this cause permanent damage to my pc?
3:Does this have the power to gain control of my pc or accounts for websites?
4:Is it gone for good or will it come back?
5:What can I do now to keep from having any problems?
Thank you for your time in reading this. Hope someone can help.