Darn Malware
Published on January 14, 2009 By WeatherBound In Personal Computing

I have vista and was running One-Care Anti virus and firewall.  Some how a virus came into my system.

I have uninstalled One-Care and installed Avast Antivirus software that has a boot scan. I did the boot scan and it found 5 viruses on my system. Avast took care of those. I installed Comodo firewall just because i think it better to have a firewall installed.

I then Installed MalwareByts Anti malware soft-wear and it found one attack. And deleted it.

 

So far all sounds good but

I am still receiving messages in my Email saying that my email i sent did not go thrue and gives me the email addresses where it was supposed to go. I do not Email very much and all these addresses where not sent by me.

I will also add that i did try Ad-Aware, Spy-blaster and Avg and others and all say everything is Good.

I am still getting theses could not be delivered emails that i did not send. when i look at the date the error message says the recent date of today.....

Has any one run in to this? If so how long does it take for those could not be delivered emails to get out of the Email system?

I will tell you it has been since Friday since all scans have been showing up with no viruses.

If you have had this virus. Let me know what you did to get rid of it.

Any help would be appreciated

Thanks


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on Jan 14, 2009

no idea, my advice (having dealt with a particularly nasty virus myself that infected three computers at my house) is to first make sure you have a pre-virus system backup and then completely wipe your machine, its the only way to really get rid of one. and try Kapersky or Webroot Spysweeper, both are excellent programs.

 

EDIT: also, if that sucker gets your mac address, theres nothing it can't do

on Jan 14, 2009

You've got some kind of worm attaching itself to emails it sounds like, if nobody here can help, there's a prog called HJT [Hiijack This] and these guys can help! --> here

on Jan 14, 2009

Good call TG! As long as he knows what to do with the results.

on Jan 14, 2009

Yep, he has to download it first [HJT], then basically post his problem, and do exactly what they say, they are masters at getting rid of the more 'stubborn' problems

on Jan 14, 2009

Yuppers... its a worm. Try googling the name of the Re: mail and then find and run the worm removal tool. I know symantec lets you dl these tools for free.

on Jan 14, 2009

As per the first guys advice............Even if you think you have solved the problem via a scan or whatever will you ever be happy that the virus is still not lurking there?..........Clean and reinstall is the safest route

on Jan 14, 2009

DON'T do any backups to any external device. This is a Trojan/Worm. Hopefully TG's suggestion as to what to do and where to go will work. If they don't you'll have to do a low level format and reinstall everything.

That's lotsa fun. Believe me.

 

on Jan 15, 2009

Damn, Doc. You are getting close to Zubaz in the KP area!! 

on Jan 15, 2009

Hey Don, I sent you some help, your email sent it back to me. Approve me dude, but don't email me...lol. 

on Jan 15, 2009

That's lotsa fun. Believe me.

It's really ain't that bad Doc. I do it a few times a year, just for that new PC feel. The speed and freshness of a brand new rig come back after a format and reinstall. I do it at least twice a year. If you keep backups, it really ain't so bad. 

on Jan 15, 2009

This reminds of the 'Happy 98' email virus, or was it 99 it wasn't that bad, just an attachment that was sent out with every email, of an exe, which.. I clicked on, being new to the net at the time, and it was a really nice animation of fireworks, I thought it was great.. then everybody kept emailing me telling me to quit sending them stuff that was an easy removal.. one of the worst, was istbar..[not email related] that's when I met the HJT guys.. and after a few hours of doing the most INSANE stuff [whatever they asked] my system was clean

on Jan 15, 2009

To late. I all ready emailed you. lol

on Jan 15, 2009

WeatherBound
To late. I all ready emailed you. lol
 just don't read it Jim

on Jan 15, 2009

Thanks for all the suport you all are giving me.

Yrag has sent me a scan to do. He has helped me many time so i do his first. Boy i hope it works.

You've got some kind of worm attaching itself to emails it sounds like, if nobody here can help, there's a prog called HJT [Hiijack This] and these guys can help! --> here

This will be my second test

 

is to first make sure you have a pre-virus system backup and then completely wipe your machine

Been thinking of this many times over. If all others fail. I will need to do the crash

on Jan 15, 2009

I will keep you all posted when test is done.

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