Win 7 Antispyware 2012 [infected me]

[marco]

I don't know where it came from.
It may have appeared on January 1st [was hiding, waiting?]

or there was one email attachment I tried opening, unsuccessfully,
and that may have been it [?], I'm not sure.
I don't normally open email attacments,
but it came from a known person.

Anyway, it took me 24 hours to get rid of it.
Malwarebyte's Anti-Malware helped me get rid of it.
I'm not endorsing this program.
I probably won't get the paid version.

I'm just wondering,
Where might this have come from?

thanks, marc

 

[David H. Lipman]

I don't know where it came from.
It may have appeared on January 1st [was hiding, waiting?]

or there was one email attachment I tried opening, unsuccessfully,
and that may have been it [?], I'm not sure.
I don't normally open email attacments,
but it came from a known person.

Anyway, it took me 24 hours to get rid of it.
Malwarebyte's Anti-Malware helped me get rid of it.
I'm not endorsing this program.
I probably won't get the paid version.

I'm just wondering,
Where might this have come from?

thanks, marc

My guess...

You cliicked on an email URL which was part of a Black Hole Exploit campaign and your PC
is not up to date with ALL software.

 

[marco]

You may be right Dave,

I just scanned the file I mentioned,
that didn't want to open,
with 3 different programs. Nothing found.

marc

 

[David H. Lipman]

You may be right Dave,

I just scanned the file I mentioned,
that didn't want to open,
with 3 different programs. Nothing found.

Upload it and I'll have a look at it. (email, email attachment, etc.)
http://www.uploadmalware.com/forum

 

[Duh_OZ]

On Jan 4, 12:28 pm, "David H. Lipman" <[email protected]>
wrote:
http://www.uploadmalware.com/forum===============
Sorry to hijack this thread, but did six different people upload the
same malware?

Net-Worm.Win32.Small...
Net-Worm.Win32.Small...
Net-Worm.Win32.Small...
Net-Worm.Win32.Small...
Net-Worm.Win32.Small...
Net-Worm.Win32.Small...

Just wondering if it hit a bunch of folks or someone sent it six times
for some reason.

 

[marco]

I think I know where my virus may have come from.

I recently visited some "Torrent" sites,
[to see what was available for free]
and I remember being directed/pushed to a variety of websites
[I don't remember downloading any files].

Very possible,
this is where the infection came from.

marc

 

[Bear]

I think I know where my virus may have come from.

I recently visited some "Torrent" sites,
[to see what was available for free]
and I remember being directed/pushed to a variety of websites
[I don't remember downloading any files].

Very possible,
this is where the infection came from.

marc

You do have an image of your system now eh?

 

[David H. Lipman]

I think I know where my virus may have come from.

I recently visited some "Torrent" sites,
[to see what was available for free]
and I remember being directed/pushed to a variety of websites
[I don't remember downloading any files].

Very possible,
this is where the infection came from.

marc

Win 7 Antispyware 2012 is not a virus.

 

[marco]

thanks,

virus, rootkit, toolkit, spyware, snoopdog, infection, whatever...
it's all the same to me -- bad bad bad bad

i had 2 backup images, and i still got stung!

i haven't had it this bad in years, that i know of
[my anti ware may have taken care of some of it]

i feel lucky, i didn't lose much data this time,
compared to hard drive crashes i've experienced,
also years ago

thanks, marc

 

[David H. Lipman]

thanks,

virus, rootkit, toolkit, spyware, snoopdog, infection, whatever...
it's all the same to me -- bad bad bad bad

i had 2 backup images, and i still got stung!

i haven't had it this bad in years, that i know of
[my anti ware may have taken care of some of it]

i feel lucky, i didn't lose much data this time,
compared to hard drive crashes i've experienced,
also years ago

thanks, marc

Go to Secunia, run their Software Inspector and see if there is out-of-date software with
vulnerabilities that led to you being infected with this trojan. The difference between a
virus and a trojan is that trojans need assistance to get installed. Exploiting known
vulnerabilities is the most common vector of this kind of infection.
http://secunia.com/software_inspector

 

[mentormatt8]

Hi, Yeah it is coming on strong: http://annoyances-resolved.blogspot.com/2012/01/how-to-remove-xp-antivirus-2012-virus.html I heard java exploit is the culprit, but that is just hearsay.

Thanks for the http://secunia.com/software_inspector reference. I'll check the friend's XP netbook as soon as I get the hold of it again.

 

[marco]

thanks David,

i should be more proactive in this area

marc