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icarusancalion ([personal profile] icarus) wrote2008-11-20 10:55 pm
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Oh, what a lovely infestation I have.

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.

[identity profile] icarusancalion.livejournal.com 2008-11-21 06:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you. Malwarebytes Anti-Malware allowed [livejournal.com profile] skipmagee to download the latest virus databases and get her virus protection working again. It also found other viruses on my computer. My AVG is still out of commission, but I was able to install a free 30-day trial of TrendMicro in the interim.

DrWeb found another trojan, gtdownlr_134.ocx, that I've probably had for a while.