Virtumonde

peetee · 19 Jun 2008 at 18:01

Meh well iv managed to get this lovely malware/virus/trojan/worm on my pc somehow, Im guessing someones used my pc without me knowing and used internet explorer. joy.

Looks like its a right pain to remove so im thinking its format time, how in this day and age can something thats seemingly been so round for so long not be cleanable =/ Avast didnt do too good at protecting me.

Is there actually any easy way of getting rid of this that I havnt stumbled across?

/rant over

Nebzor · 19 Jun 2008 at 18:03

http://www.virtumonde.net/
http://www.f-secure.com/sw-desc/virtumonde.shtml

... first few links on google.

CliffyBiro · 19 Jun 2008 at 18:05

You're not the only one.

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17887855

I used Ad-Aware and I think that's done the trick.

Have no idea how I got it but it's a big coincidence that I got it soon after downloading Firefox 3.0 yesterday from a link int the thread here. :rolleyes:

peetee · 19 Jun 2008 at 18:11

Mines only just started appearing as being detected after ff3 too.
I knew something was up last week or so though.

Benja if you'd actually looked at those links.. like I have you would have read
'Removing Virtumonde is HARD. While we know our guides work they do not work for everyone. Do plan on spending at least 2 hours to remove this threat. 4-7 hours'

Im asking for an easy way, not one thats taking atleast 2hours.

CliffyBiro · 19 Jun 2008 at 18:14

Well I went through several scans with Spybot, Avast, VundoFix, and Ad-Aware before I (hopefully) got rid of it.

tyketto · 19 Jun 2008 at 18:18

i had it a while back n used super antispyware... programme n it got it all after 2 scans.......antivirus wudnt find it....adaware n spybot also helped...

Nebzor · 19 Jun 2008 at 19:28

peetee said:
Mines only just started appearing as being detected after ff3 too.
I knew something was up last week or so though.

Benja if you'd actually looked at those links.. like I have you would have read
'Removing Virtumonde is HARD. While we know our guides work they do not work for everyone. Do plan on spending at least 2 hours to remove this threat. 4-7 hours'

Im asking for an easy way, not one thats taking atleast 2hours.

"Pee" if you'd actually looked at the second link, it is a program that removes it for you.

And just to top things off, there are plenty of links to software on the first site too.

Maybe next time you won't be so hasty to snap at someone who's helping you.

peetee · 20 Jun 2008 at 10:02

ooh really, why thank you, ill have a look in it, you should have just posted that link

lets hope it works ey

Mikoyan · 20 Jun 2008 at 10:18

I found turning system restore off also and running scans etc ensures it wont recorrur when you reboot (its meant to have entries in the sys restore)

Obviously turn it back on once scans, etc all done.

leoncc · 20 Jun 2008 at 10:50

i've had this virus on my pc too, tried everything to try and get rid of it, eventually i just formatted :/