Okay, so first of all, let me just say that while I have an expanded basic knowledge of computers and IT, I'm not an expert. Just enough to be the go-to guy for my idiotic family.
So when my father comes to me with "There's something on my computer", I get chills. Turns out to be a piece of very nasty Malware that had managed to get itself into just about every .dll in his computer (Windows 7, mind).
Disguising itself as an "Antivirus" called "System tool", it prevented us from opening his Antivirus, running a system restore, accessing his root files, or even shutting down the computer. Like I said, a real nasty little bastard.
I'm just wondering if anybody has come across it before, because I've never seen a belligerent program so quickly integrate itself and become impossible to remove (bar installation of the factory-build OS, which is what I was forced to resort to)
Here's some pictures that I snapped off before reinstalling windows:
The desktop wallpaper, forced by the program to be this image
This is a fake warning sent up the program after we tried to run system restore, actually disguised as a Windows warning flag
... and THIS is where clicking on that "message" took us
This is the message after I tried - and failed - to open AVG Antivirus
And, finally, the program itself
If anybody could give me some insight, I'd be very grateful, especially since my father computer is the one that's hardwired into our Router and NAS. I didn't want to do a google search for the program, for obvious reasons.
So when my father comes to me with "There's something on my computer", I get chills. Turns out to be a piece of very nasty Malware that had managed to get itself into just about every .dll in his computer (Windows 7, mind).
Disguising itself as an "Antivirus" called "System tool", it prevented us from opening his Antivirus, running a system restore, accessing his root files, or even shutting down the computer. Like I said, a real nasty little bastard.
I'm just wondering if anybody has come across it before, because I've never seen a belligerent program so quickly integrate itself and become impossible to remove (bar installation of the factory-build OS, which is what I was forced to resort to)
Here's some pictures that I snapped off before reinstalling windows:
If anybody could give me some insight, I'd be very grateful, especially since my father computer is the one that's hardwired into our Router and NAS. I didn't want to do a google search for the program, for obvious reasons.
