Anti-virus 2009

danielmp007 · 3 Jan 2009 at 15:31

My mum has called me to fix her computer cos its not letting her on all her normal website. Even when i start google it says that it has found an unregistered version of antivirus 2009 and recommends i pay $50 to register.

Its even at the top of all the web pages saying "The page you are opening is probably contains spyware, adware, ect" (which i thought was really good english).

I have run msconfig and stopped it starting at start up and i cant find it in control panel to remove....

Has anybody else had this problem? Anybody know any resolutions??

Many thanks

Sinque · 3 Jan 2009 at 15:33

Anti-virus 2009 is a virus, ironic I know.

kinetic747 · 3 Jan 2009 at 15:38

My father-in-law had this a few weeks ago. Run this, update then do a scan.

Link

Kemik · 3 Jan 2009 at 15:38

Download AVG free and Spybot S&D.

danielmp007 · 3 Jan 2009 at 15:38

but how do i get rid of it?

My AVG isnt finding anything

kinetic747 · 3 Jan 2009 at 15:42

danielmp007 said:
but how do i get rid of it?

My AVG isnt finding anything

Run the prog I linked to and remove any nasties it finds.

lay-z-boy · 3 Jan 2009 at 15:42

Anti virus 2009 is amazingly ironic being a huge piece of malware itself. I couldn't remove it completely (even with my trusty toolkit of software that usually works) from a flatmates laptop and just reinstalled the whole os.

danielmp007 · 3 Jan 2009 at 15:47

kinetic747 said:
My father-in-law had this a few weeks ago. Run this, update then do a scan.

Link

Just trying this now

KrooKedUK · 3 Jan 2009 at 15:56

My neighbours came accross the 2008 edition of this malware, when I asked them how it got there, they were clueless...

oh well they gave me some money (not that i asked for it) for sorting it and all was fine

Reality|Bites · 3 Jan 2009 at 16:01

those damn pron sites huh?

Jimbeam3678 · 3 Jan 2009 at 16:08

lay-z-boy said:
Anti virus 2009 is amazingly ironic being a huge piece of malware itself. I couldn't remove it completely (even with my trusty toolkit of software that usually works) from a flatmates laptop and just reinstalled the whole os.

Please tellme your joking right ?? One of the easier ones to remove.

Safe mode , run super antispyware (full scan) let that do its stuff.

Now for some reason it doesn't remove the *.EXE which is found in \program files\ anti virus 2009. Delete all of these , then check in \windows\system32 for any recent EXE's with weird/random looking names. Before you delete them google to make sure they are nasties.

Once thats done empty recycle bin and reboot. Happy times

Luke · 3 Jan 2009 at 16:12

Went through this myself last night on my eeepc. Spyware Guard 2008 had infested the OS.
I couldn't connect to any AV sites, all redirected to 127.0.0.1. Couldn't download any spyware removal software.

I logged on in safe mode, downloaded Superantispyware (which I'd avoided for a while as it sounded so dodgy itself!) but had to rename the exe to install it as the malware was blocking the installation.
Once installed, I had to rename the exe in order to run it.
Between Superantispyware and Malwarebytes it cleaned it up fully.

Jimbeam3678 · 3 Jan 2009 at 16:14

emailiscrap said:
but had to rename the exe to install it as the malware was blocking the installation.
Once installed, I had to rename the exe in order to run it.
Between Superantispyware and Malwarebytes it cleaned it up fully.

Good point forgot to mention the renaming part oopss :rolleyes:

CaptainComedy · 3 Jan 2009 at 16:16

haha gotta love old people

Mr Kite · 3 Jan 2009 at 16:20

Don't Ya just love morons who use a computer & click on anything & everything.

Deserve all they get...Keep on clicking, keeps me in a job

Jimbeam3678 · 3 Jan 2009 at 16:22

Mr Kite said:
Don't Ya just love morons who use a computer & click on anything & everything.

Deserve all they get...Keep on clicking, keeps me in a job

TO be fair I "think" that particular nasty comes from a website without downloading any file well to the user knowledge.

Could be wrong mind

kinetic747 · 3 Jan 2009 at 16:23

Mr Kite said:
Don't Ya just love morons who use a computer & click on anything & everything.

Deserve all they get...Keep on clicking, keeps me in a job

Doesn't it get cold up there?

Doohickey · 3 Jan 2009 at 16:26

Malwarebytes Anti-Malware will get rid of it. Make sure you update the definitions before scanning.

danielmp007 · 3 Jan 2009 at 16:40

codec said:
haha gotta love old people

Lol ye, on a quick brief look at the history i see pron lol...

Uncle has been here for a few days lol.

danielmp007 · 3 Jan 2009 at 17:03

kinetic747 said:
My father-in-law had this a few weeks ago. Run this, update then do a scan.

Link

This worked a treat. Many thanks.

what would i do without OCUK.