...Did I get a virus?

[PMCervantes8994]

Hey everyone.

So last night I was on event hubs looking up new Street Fighter info, when all of a sudden my internet shuts down saying I am at high risk for viruses and asking if I wanted to scan for them. "Oh shit," I thought to myself and immediately clicked on yes.

After a while of clicking I learn that this is something I need to pay for. I already have anti virus software so I didn't want to pay for it so I exited out of there (after it asked me "Are you sure?" a couple times).

Now when I'm on the internet almost everytime I want to go to a different page a warning screen comes up asking if I want to continue unprotected or get this anti virus software that I accidentally found last night.

Is this a virus? And can anyone help me with this problem?

Thanks!
*is not computer savvy*

 

[orangebandguy]

If it's called MS Antivirus 2010/2009 or the like you're in deep shit.

Nightmare to get rid because it usually comes with several trojans hidden away.

 

[7moreDead_v1legacy]

Its malware...Spybot or malwayre bytes will clear it.

*edit* See it on a daily basis where I work, in various guises.

 

[Insideout Ink Demon]

oh man, you shouldn't have clicked yes. this thing will just hound you n hound you. go offline, then do a full system scan with your own anti-virus.
anti-malware bytes is also quite a good scanner, and free.

more than that I cant help you, i went over to linux a year ago to get away from all this

hope you fix it soon

 

[Monshroud]

Yeah, you probably got some Malware installed on your system. Had the issue with a friends machine who installed "Antivirus 2009" on her machine. If the software has a name that you can see, go to another computer and google the name of that software. DO NOT use your computer to do it, as some of these programs have search engine redirects that will send you to bogus pages. You should be able to find a few articles on how to remove it.

Also, if you have McAfee or Symantec you can go to their site and they may have instructions on how to remove it or provide a program that will do so.

These are nasty little programs and they don't go away easily. Good Luck.

 

[Uilleand]

Even if you *don't* click yes, it's STILL a ***** of a bug to get rid of. I've lost 3 full days of work to it so far. Vile thing....

 

[Da pyro man 999]

Yes, i had the same virus here. The virus will discise itself as a anti virus program and ask you to ad ur bank details, use ur installed anti virus program, gods speed

 

[Raqshiem]

Yes, you have a virus. You've fallen prey to one of the numerous "zomg Virus! CLICK HERE TO REMOVE!!11!!" pop-ups that plague the more shady side of the interwebs.

Run a scan with your local Antivirus, and hopefully it will snag it. If it doesn't, try using the free scan from pandasecurity.com, located on the left side of the screen about halfway down the menu. And then to be safe, go to housecall.trendmicro.com and run their free scanner as well.

The problem with viruses and the scanners of viruses is that not all databases are created equally. Redundant scans are the key.

 

[Syphous]

Malware Bytes Anti-Malware. If you can manage to get here and download the program, it will fix your problems.
http://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam.php

But I just took that virus off my sisters PC like a week ago, not only was it re-directing me when I tried to go to the malwarebytes site, but it was also not allowing me to run the program. I ended up having to
Click Start
Click Run
Type regedit
Find every entry with av.exe and deleted those entries (press Ctrl+F to use the find function)
THEN I could run Malwarebytes Anti-Malware and destroyed the fucker once and for all.

 

[Jimbob_123]

Yeah, I got Paladin Antivirus on my system a while back . It's not nice. Download malwarebytes. Most importantly, DO NOT click on anything that comes up. If you let it 'scan' it will likely remove your firewall/antivirus software and then you are screwed. Download malwarebytes, go offline, do a full scan and kill it .

 

[dsmops2003]

From another PC download and update Malwarebytes and AVG9.0 free. Then take your hard drive out of your computer and connect it to the clean one. Turn on the computer and start it in safe mode. Scan the hard drive in safe mode. Once you have cleaned the disk replace it in your old computer and boot it. It may blue screen on you. If it does boot your boot media that comes from your pc manufacturer. Go to repair a windows install. Type chkdsk /r after that finishes do a fixmbr. This will usually fix that. If it does not you may want to boot the boot media again and then go to the prompt of install a new operating system but instead of deleting the partition and reinstalling you just want to choose the windows partition and do a repair installation. Which ever case you should not run your internet browser with administrative rights.

Running your Internet Browser without Administrative privileges.

The benefit of running your internet browser such as internet explorer without administrative privileges is safety. The majority of malware and spyware infections are due to websites with malicious code or banners or other applets that have been hijacked on legitimate sites and injected with malicious code. Then internet explorer being run as administrator has the rights to run these malicious codes which then infect your machine. Linux users have the benefit of already being in a limited user mode by default. This is how windows should have done things but didn't. So then how do windows users that are running in an elevated mode run their browsers in a much safer limited rights mode? Well I will tell you.
Step 1. Go to control panel
Step 2. Go to Administrative tools
Step 3. Go to Computer management
Step 4. Expand Local users and groups
Step 5. Right-Click the Users folder and choose Add New...
Step 6. Enter a name and a password for your limited user.
*Note* This user will be limited by default on creation.
Step 7. Right click on your internet explorer icon and choose properties.
Step 8. Click on the line that says Target and move your cursor all the way to the left.
Step 9. type runas.exe /profile /user:jerkface /savecred
*Note* jerkface is the name of my limited user so whatever you name yours replace jerkface with it.
You're finished. It will ask for the users password the first time you start IE or whatever browser you choose. the /savecred switch will save the password for your limited user so you do not have to type it in every time.

 

[reg42]

Sounds like something I had. I got rid of it eventually. I used Malewarebytes if I remember correctly, which is free BTW.

 

[PMCervantes8994]

Crap.

Ok well thanks to everyone and I have started a scan and will definitely take all of your advice if it doesn't help.