Virus-Need help
Darn Malware
Wednesday, January 14, 2009 by WeatherBound | Discussion: 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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Reply #82 Wednesday, January 21, 2009 11:53 PM
Just curious, but have you gone to the HJT forums at all? I've asked a few times, but still don't know 
Reply #83 Thursday, January 22, 2009 10:18 AM
Tailgirl, I have gone there. Very long and slow process. So i have not put a log in there. But I did read a lot and found some same problems with other out there and followed what they where saying to do.
Update
So far no new emails have come in. And the backup and restore has not showed up for a while.
Jim I am happy that it did not find anything.
I really believe that the emails are fake from a virus Mail demon. and are really pounding me hard to open a attachment.
Reply #84 Thursday, January 22, 2009 11:43 AM
I hope you are correct. 
Reply #85 Thursday, January 22, 2009 12:29 PM
That would be a great end to the story, wouldn't it.
Jim: Gimme back the trophy. 
Reply #86 Thursday, January 22, 2009 1:40 PM
just noticed somthing on the the backup and restore poping up. It pops up on start menue when i open control panel. I do not hit anything else. but click on control panel and its there.
Reply #87 Thursday, January 22, 2009 3:59 PM
That's the thing Weatherbound, it does take a while, but if you had stayed there, your problems would be gone now, instead we have pages of stuff you wouldn't have had to go through, had you just followed what they had to say, but it's your choice buddy
I'd just hate to see you go through a needless format
Reply #88 Thursday, January 22, 2009 4:43 PM
IF you are prepared, a format is no so hard, and it makes your machine like new again. Even restores that new PC smell....not. But it really is easy, IF you're prepared, and as I said before, I do it twice a year, just to have that new PC feel. The quickness comes back. Ohhh, I can feel it now...lol. I, too, hope you don't have to do it.
Reply #89 Thursday, January 22, 2009 4:44 PM
Never took it anyway....I left it right where you put it...lol.
Reply #91 Thursday, January 22, 2009 5:13 PM
Weatherbound, I'm a 'Format-a-phobe' 
Awww Jim, keep the trophy, you've been an immense help in this topic
Reply #92 Thursday, January 22, 2009 5:56 PM
Tailsgirl, I am not afraid to crash it because its like Jim says. Make it like new
The only thing why i am hesitating this time is i have a few soft wear installed on this and i do not have any installs to them.
It may take a little time to get updated after crash but its worth it at the end. And if anyone going to do a crash it will be a full blown crash. I have done a half crash and that led to a full one anyways. lol
Reply #93 Thursday, January 22, 2009 6:07 PM
But it's needless!!!! you can get this fixed in less than an hour, trust me
Reply #94 Friday, January 23, 2009 4:04 AM
You could have had a clean install done in a fraction of the time that's been spent 'messing'.
A good backup solution is worth considering. My XP set up has DriveImage 7 set to do daily backups. If I got hit by a virus I could restore from backup in about 15 minutes - less than it would take to do a virus scan 
Reply #96 Friday, January 23, 2009 12:33 PM
But as we all know, there are lots of people that don't keep backups. Never understood that, my brother is that way. If you don't keep backups, you lose too much in a format. To all those reading this thread, always keep backups!! There are many good backup programs out there.
I don't mean to say that Don has no backups, I don't know that. But I do know that a lot of people don't, for some odd reason. 
Reply #97 Friday, January 23, 2009 12:35 PM
Fuzzy, If you have a backup program, does it backup the virus?
Reply #98 Friday, January 23, 2009 12:59 PM
I use Norton Ghost 14. You guys know so much more than me...did I make a good or bad choice?
Reply #99 Friday, January 23, 2009 1:24 PM
I do do backups.
But that only saves documents and media. All the rest of my programs and even Vista it self needs to update to sp1.
Then My WoW would need to be installed wich could take days. Lol
Not sure if i could handle that in its self.
Reply #100 Friday, January 23, 2009 2:12 PM
Yes, but, my current back up set goes back as far as 7th Dec (when I did my current install). So, if I got hit, say, three days ago, I'd have plenty of backups to choose from which are virus free. You need a big drive to store the backups, but they are so cheap these days.
I've just looked at my back up set and noticed a disturbing trend - they are getting bigger each day. Running drive scan has showed my my Nikon Capture NX software has currently 1.4Gb of thumbnails 
I didn't know it did that...
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Reply #81 Wednesday, January 21, 2009 11:46 PM
The stinger found nothing.