W32.Blaster.worm How Do You Kill It?

[vta]

I know it will go over poorly, but...

Kills Bugs Dead.

 

[BrAinPaiNt]

I know it will go over poorly, but...

Kills Bugs Dead.

You mean all hos has to do is buy an apple computer, install it to his existing computer or take his existing hard drive and put it in the apple computer and it will take away the virus!!!

If not then it is kind of a waste of a post because it is his current computer that needs fixed.

 

[vta]

You mean all hos has to do is buy an apple computer, install it to his existing computer or take his existing hard drive and put it in the apple computer and it will take away the virus!!!

If not then it is kind of a waste of a post because it is his current computer that needs fixed.

Yes I was truly offering a valid solution that I fully expected him to take into account and not a joke. Thanks for setting me straight.

Never mind Hos...

 

[BrAinPaiNt]

Yes I was truly offering a valid solution that I fully expected him to take into account and not a joke. Thanks for setting me straight.

Never mind Hos...

Call me crazy but when he is trying multiple things over and over to get his pc fixed...the last thing he needs is a joke.

Sorry if I come across rudely but when working on a nasty virus or spyware the last thing someone wants to read is some lame apple joke.

 

[Hostile]

I have a friend here that I just offered to buy him a hamburger at Lindy's on 4th Avenue if he can kill this stupid thing.

He's on his way.

 

[Hostile]

vta, no sweat on the joke. I didn't get it anyway.

 

[MetalHead]

vta, no sweat on the joke. I didn't get it anyway.

Apple computers get no viruses.

 

[Hostile]

Apple computers get no viruses.

Thanks. I didn't even know that was an Apple. I thought it was a server of some kind.

 

[ajk23az]

Apple computers get no viruses.

myth. While it is a lot less likely a mac gets a virus than a pc, it is entirely possible.

 

[Jenky]

Yeah, my daughter used a PC at her High School Library to work on a paper. She put a data traveler in the USB and brought this sucker home.

I have killed it 4 times now and it keeps coming back, which means I am not really killing it. Everything I have read says symantec is the way to do it and it is what keeps making it stop, but only temporarily so far.

I just ran Symantic and Malwarebytes in safe mode. I also just ran a disk cleanup and am now running a disk defrag. When that is done I am going to run a check disk.

The firewall is turned on.

Windows updates is turned on.

I can't imagine how this sucker keeps coming back.

Did you turn off system restore? May be answered in the thread already, haven't gotten that far.

 

[Jenky]

Ok its not blaster worm. It's fake AV. Need to know what it's calling itself. Does it look like this crap? http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/virus-removal/remove-antivirus-2010

Or a variant of it?

 

[WarC]

If it's anything like the worm I had, it completely demolished my machine. Nothing worked. It literally changed window system processes so I couldn't access the net, and it was still active in Safe Mode. Formatting was the only way to get ride of it.

Some of the nastier worms will infect core system files, especially winlogon.exe which windows will -not- boot with out. Some AV programs will detect and forcibly quarantine that exectuable, the user reboots and they get a blue screen and endless restart. Nasty surprise.

Most of the time it remains untouched and a virus can utilize that backdoor to re-generate itself.

Rootkits are also a problem, they are another layer of malware that can hide processes from being detected at startup, or forcibly disable AV programs or firewalls.


Macs are not virus-proof, their OSes are built off unix architecture so they are just susceptible to an entirely different class of viruses and exploits. Most of them don't get infected because there simply aren't many people out there interested in hacking macs due to their poor market share. Its a case where their high dollar status and market niche makes them less vulnerable.

 

[Hostile]

It is dead.

We had to download a virus killer called combofix onto a thumb drive and load it in safe mode to kill this stupid thing.

Thank you all for the suggestions.

 

[Hostile]

Ok its not blaster worm. It's fake AV. Need to know what it's calling itself. Does it look like this crap? http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/virus-removal/remove-antivirus-2010

Or a variant of it?

This is exactly what worked. It was on that site and called combofix.

 

[SaltwaterServr]

This is exactly what worked. It was on that site and called combofix.

One of the owners of the restaurant I manage happened to get that on one of our main computers in the office. He paid $35 for the service on a Sunday morning. Sunday night I come in and the server is acting really twitchy. Every time we'd run a credit card, the real antivirus would pop up and stop the transaction. I called him up and found out what he did and shut down the system.

Monday afternoon he had cash withdrawals from his credit card all over some BFE town in Latvia. Something similar happened to another restaurant here in town as well. They got infected with a virus that an employee put on via a flash drive and was siphoning credit card numbers to a group in Mexico City.

He's been restricted to touching nothing more technically advanced than a calculator, and only the solar powered one at that.

 

[YosemiteSam]

Apple computers get no viruses.

Someone (Steve Jobs) must have hit your with an ignorant stick as that is NOT true.

 

[jubal]

You may wish to consider downloading and running Microsoft Security Essentials antivirus software. It's free. I have been very satisfied with it since replacing Avast! with it. It does a very good job of both detecting and removing trojans, etc.

Same goes for me.

 

[MetalHead]

Someone (Steve Jobs) must have hit your with an ignorant stick as that is NOT true.

Ignorant stick?...wow,how long it took you to come up with such a disgused attack like that?
You must be really smart.

 

[ajk23az]

Ignorant stick?...wow,how long it took you to come up with such a disgused attack like that?
You must be really smart.

It is kinda foolish to think Macs can't get any viruses I must say.

 

[YosemiteSam]

Ignorant stick?...wow,how long it took you to come up with such a disgused attack like that?
You must be really smart.

I am ******** brilliant! :