Oh, what a lovely infestation I have.

[icarus]

Oh, wonderful. I tried downloading the latest SPN episode from mininova.org and got a virus infected file instead.

Threat name: Trojan.Downloader.NUS and, worse yet, Adware.Maxifiles
Threat level: somewhere between Kristallnacht and nuclear holocaust

Bonus? Looks like it blocks me from going to the mininova.org web page. I can't warn anyone. Except you, of course.

Currently cleaning it out with Spywaredoctor. Next I run AVG.



ETA: Spywaredoctor caught it, cleaned it. Malwarebytes Anti-Malware found more. I still can't access mininova, however.

Annihow has more info for all of us. This particular problem disabled AVG, so she has masterful ways and tools to scan and disinfect your computer.

Comments

Re: p.s.

[amalthia]

I really should have had no script on the firefox browser of the projector computer...after that last reformat we decided no more downloading to that computer because we could never tell where the viruses were coming from where with our own computers we have the most up-to-date protection and it's quite easy to tell when you've installed a nasty virus. :(

But really the people who create those...the death penalty is too good for them. Spammers and virus makers I can't think of people I hate worse. They really do ruin good things.