Antivirus 2010

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Sarah - Oct 13, 2010 at 02:38 AM
Ambucias Posts 47356 Registration date Monday February 1, 2010 Status Moderator Last seen February 15, 2023 - Oct 13, 2010 at 04:24 PM
Hello,

I have a virus on my computer which I think is linked to this program called Antivirus 2010 which keeps pooping up to scan my files and says they are infected by trojans. I have now installed Webroot Antivirus and at first I could scan my computer but the scan ran on for hours and hours and so I canceled it. I can no longer scan my computer using Webroot Antivirus because it cannot connect to the Internet to update itself and I think this is the work of the virus. How can I get rid of a virus which is stopping itself from getting removed? Please help!

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Ambucias Posts 47356 Registration date Monday February 1, 2010 Status Moderator Last seen February 15, 2023 11,169
Oct 13, 2010 at 05:24 AM
Greetings to you Sarah and Onea97,

Please permit me my grain of salt.

Antivirus 2010 is now a well known scam a fake antivirus programme, it is actually a rogue trojan horse and trojan remover will prove itselft to be complete useless agains such a rogue.

To clean the system, malicious processes must first be stopped before cleaning the remaining malicious files.

Here is how to get rid of this scam rogue virus designed to get to your credit card account and it is a good thing you did not fall for it.

Please follow the following procedure carefully and to the letter.

You have a rogue virus Trojan Horse which is self protective, thus it will prevent any antivirus from fonctionning.

You must kill the evil processes which the virus is presently running amd preventing you from running any antivirus. If you don't it will keep reproducing the files for ever.

To kill the processes:

1. Download to your desktop and run Rogue Kill:

https://download.bleepingcomputer.com/grinler/rkill.com

2. You should now see a window that shows all of your desktop icons, including the rkill.com program.

3. Double-click on the rkill.com in order to automatically attempt to stop any processes associated with the Rogue programs. Please be patient while the program looks for various malware programs and ends them. When it has finished, the black window will automatically close and you can continue with the next step.

If you get a message that rkill is an infection, do not be concerned. This message is just a fake warning given by the Horse when it terminates programs that may potentially remove it. If you run into these infections warnings that close Rkill, a trick is to leave the warning on the screen and then run Rkill again. By not closing the warning, this typically will allow you to bypass the malware trying to protect itself so that rkill can terminate the processes . So, please try running Rkill until malware is no longer running.

As a matter of a fact, if you get messages, it is a sign that the virus is agonizing with excrutiating pain, so you can just grin while it is suffering!:)))

Please, DO NOT REBOOT your computer or the processes will come back to haunt you!

Download to your desktop Malwarebyte.

https://ccm.net/downloads/security-and-maintenance/4621-malwarebytes-anti-malware/

Once on your desktop, we must still outwit the virus.

Right click on the MBAM icon and click on rename. Rename it kioskea.exe.

Install Malwarebyte and launch it. From the second tab, update it.

Pretty please, request a FULL system scan which should take more than hour. Once the scan is finish, delete all of item that were found.

It is very important that you let Malwarebyte run for as long as it takes, in some cases the creators of Malwarebyte suggest that you go do something like watch a rerun of "Gone with the Wind" or read Tolstoy's "War and Peace".

Once your computer is clean and working normally just to be on the safe side
*Turn off system restore and wait 30 seconds,
*Turn it back on and create a new restore point.

This way it gets rid of anything bad that might have gotten saved in a restore point and you have a clean restore point to use in the near future if needed.
Do not turn it off until your computer is clean and working normally because you might need to use it if something goes wrong during the clean-up process.
It is better to go back to an infected restore point if something goes wrong then to not be able to undo changes that were damaging.

(Malwarebyte may reboot your computer, don't be alarmed. Should it happened, relaunch Malwarebyte to complete the FULL scan)

Once all this is completed, I always suggest to delete Malwarebyte as some people have reported that it may interfere with other antivirus applications.

Please let us know about the results or I may throw a curse on your system which will cause to bark all the time.:)))

Best regards
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Hi Ambicias!

Thank you for all your help! I got as far as downloading Malwarebytes onto my desktop but when I try to open it two messages come up: Runtime Error 0 and Runtime Error 440 so I can't follow your help any further...
Also I am not clued up on computers at all so please can you explain your next step involving restore points?
Your help is much appreciated!
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Ambucias Posts 47356 Registration date Monday February 1, 2010 Status Moderator Last seen February 15, 2023 11,169
Oct 13, 2010 at 04:24 PM
Hello Sarah,

Go to command prompt

1. Click start
2. Click run
3. Type command
4. Type the following commands and press enter after each one

regsvr32 mbamext.dll
regsvr32 ssubtmr6.dll
regsvr32 vbalsgrid6.ocx
regsvr32 zlib.dll

Close the window.

Completely delete the Malwarebyte copy you have as it may have been corrupted.

Repeat my instructions starting with Rkill

Remember to rename MBAM once on your desktop

Good luck
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