ANTIVIR Virus on Windows 7 hp, Please Help!!!

Malwarebytes almost always gets rid of it. I wouldn't use combofix as anything but a last resort, it has a habit of killing OS files (might as well have just do a fresh install in that case).

Well, I only 'remove' it for other people. I'm a nuke from orbit type for my own PC, but then I have backups which most of the people that ask for help don't.
 
This is some of the stuff that was removed earlier, don't know if it's relevant to this particular virus but I'm fairly certain PC was clean before today.

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Crowort said:
I wouldn't use combofix as anything but a last resort, it has a habit of killing OS files (might as well have just do a fresh install in that case).
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Hmmm, never had that happen with Combofix yet. As with all complex malware removals though, tools such as Combofix should only be used by people who actually know what they are doing. :cool:

Malwarebytes gets rid of Antivir in most cases but this "Defense Centre" infection although similar is a complete pain in the backside in comparison, especially if Google5 Redirect pays you a visit at the same time. Using Malwarebytes alone on that won't get rid. It will cleanse most infected files from Defense Centre but won't get rid fully. ;)
 
Like i said re-install windows. You've done all this faffing around and it's still rearing it's ugly head.

I fix pc's for a living too, the benefits of a clean install and the ease of actually doing it make it a far more attractive proposition than trawling through registry entries for ages.
 
Loads and loads of people have got this recently.
Have you all got 'java' installed?

I'm using IE8 and I've never installed any version of java, I wonder if thats where the infection is coming from, and thus why i am immune?
 
I have this too, on my second PC, trying to get rid of it now, hopefully it will go and won't make it onto my new rig.
 
Also got this today browsing forum all though think it came when i clicked on photo from a external file host.

Booted in safe mode with networking and downloaded and ran a program called stinger from mcafee. This found it and deleted files. It had buried it self in a sun java install so think its a java flaw its getting in on.
 
I installed java ages ago for some reason or other think i wanted to use trend micro housecall to do a online virus scan and at the time you needed it.
 
Has anyone caught this annoying little bugger that doesn't use Facebook?

The reason I ask is that my wife caught it (and she's a FB freak) - but I didn't, which rules out the possibility of it coming from OcUK, pretty much.
 
You just need to set your lan settings too 'automatically detect'

In I.E.

Code: 
Tools
Internet options
Connection
Lan Settings
Click automatically detect settings'
uncheck use proxy server for your lan
 
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