New Virus/Trojan alert

[airtj]

I was surfing the web on my dad's laptop when all of a sudden a virus warning appears and a program is running a scan. This new threat is called Vista Total Security 2011. I hope that I can get it cleaned!

 

[Gdavis101]

Try running MBAM and Spybot in safe mode with networking, MBAM is Malware Bytes Anti Malware.. Both are free and can be found at download.com

 

[stansdds]

I was surfing the web on my dad's laptop when all of a sudden a virus warning appears and a program is running a scan. This new threat is called Vista Total Security 2011. I hope that I can get it cleaned!

Those things are always on the web. When they pop up, I shut down Firefox as that seems to be the only way to get away from whichever site is hosting the virus. I will say, it is a very convincing pop up page, looks just like something MicroSoft would have designed.

 

[ananda]

http://forums.malwarebytes.org/index.php?showtopic=82696

http://freeofvirus.blogspot.com/2011/03/win-7-total-security-2011-removal-guide.html

http://www.wiki-security.com/wiki/Parasite/TotalSecurity

 

[fsafranek]

I was surfing the web on my dad's laptop when all of a sudden a virus warning appears and a program is running a scan. This new threat is called Vista Total Security 2011. I hope that I can get it cleaned!

I've run into that a couple of times recently. While searching for aircraft pictures in google as a matter of fact. I clicked the thumbnail image and as soon as I get to the website there was an onslaught of scanning and reporting viruses and trojan horses found. Doesn't respond to anything so I simply hit the off button on the PC. After I power back up I have my always up to date virus checker run a quick scan. It finds nothing.

I even got on one of these sites from an emailed link from an old associate pointing me to an aircraft sight that he (or someone) indicated I might like. Scary stuff.
:ernae:

 

[airtj]

I'm still dealing with this nasty little program. I've ran Malwarebytes and Spybot and it deleted some files, also ran F-secure online scanner but for some reason it wont delete the files, running the F-secure scanner again. I hope I can get rid of this or the laptop is going in to the computer shop!

 

[Butcherbird17]

Go here for removal: http://www.precisesecurity.com/rogue/vista-total-security-2011/

Its also wise to run malwarebytes in safe-mode. Hope this helps.

Joe

 

[airtj]

Thanks for the website, I found that one last night. I also ran across this one to

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/virus-removal/remove-win-7-internet-security-2011

It seems that the program was interfering with the online scanner, I'm following the steps to remove the program.

 

[Allen]

I've seen quite a few of these fake Anti-viruses pages pop-up. I just Ctrl Alt Delete and go to processers to shut down iexplore.exe *IE8* before the pop-up can do any damage.

 

[hey_moe]

Good morning, I too can't stand to be surfing and get that crap-o-la your pooter has been infected and then that auto scan starts...lol. You would think that a person would have something better to do with his time than to create a progam that just piss's off people.

 

[demorier]

Thanks for the warning fella's.

 

[kilo delta]

I've seen quite a few of these fake Anti-viruses pages pop-up. I just Ctrl Alt Delete and go to processers to shut down iexplore.exe *IE8* before the pop-up can do any damage.

Same as this..only it's Google Chrome in my case.

 

[JoeW]

This sounds like the epasode with Mr Nick Skrepetos and the "SuperAntiSpyware" Program. After I bought his program (He watched as I opened PayPal and paid for his program) and then he took 3 payments of $199.99 from my account in the name of Koram Games. Mr Nick was at one time an author with one of the gaming companys.
This is a very upstanding man. He takes money from you in someones name.
I got a refund of my money but it was him that took it. I found 2 root kits in my computer that SuperAntiSpyware placed. AVG took them out. I also think that he was the cause of the "Mellisa" infection that I just removed from my computer. "Melissa " was emailinjg everyone on my email address book, except that it was using an old one on "D:\" drive.

Very nice gentleman.

 

[airtj]

F-Secure Online Scanner

I've ran the scanner a couple of times and has found malware but it's -1, has any one else run into this problem? I've posted over at bleeping computers in the virus/trojan help forum but it seems like they are swamped right now.