Ignore, system was eaten by a virus and needs to be reinstalled.

Hi,

is anyone else seeing these bid4mytrip pop-up etc. uncalled for behaviour on groupdiy or is my browser/system compromised?

This is pretty goddamn unfriendly adware if its supposed to be there! It went straight through adblock.

Off with their heads!

sounds like it may be a personal problem...

I don't see that...

JR

Nothing here...

Thanks guys. yeah just verified it, all virus scanning engines are shutdown, UAC automatically with no permission from me turned off. Won't let me install new antivirus software.

Nasty f**ker. Format C: etc. chores ahead. goodbye virus.

restarting in windows safe mode, (usually F8 or F12 when starting) without any driver support except for network drivers, let's you reach the internet. Download something like hitman, and run it. Usually does the trick.

Yes, restart in safe mode, install, upgrade and use Malwarebytes Anti-Malware, Spybot and SuperAntiSpyware. You may even need to download a specific remover tool. I had that problem once (at least), no fun at all...

safe mode is for children's viruses. a total purge with freshly formatted drives and images is what is needed for the real world - and I just did that. I've been running MSE as the anti-virus for some years. This is not exactly the best advertisement for it.

Moving on (or rather back) to nod32 or f-secure.

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being in the middle of installing things with no adblock in firefox, I see the site "as it's meant to be". These "fake forum posts" by google or whatever are pretty horrible. Someone is advertising to me in chinese. I mean good luck with that. Or the other one selling sh*te furniture.

Kingston, you are a know-it-all if ever I knew one.  ;D

Yup, have been running for 1,5 year without trouble after removing the last virus which did exactly as you described. But hey, if you enjoy installing stuff

Yea there are viruses and then there are viruses. That sucks man hope you got it sorted.

Have you tried ComboFix?
Best,
Bruno2000

+1 on combo fix, we use it here at the office  good stuff. Has fixed about 99% of all serious problems.

I was a tech for about 7 years, so i've definately seen a few viruses. I've always had the best luck with Sophos emergency scan in safe mode/manual registry edits/system restore...usually in that order. Or...just backup and resoftware if you want to put the time in.

sr1200 said:

+1 on combo fix, we use it here at the office  good stuff. Has fixed about 99% of all serious problems.

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Same here ....combo fix then run malware bytes then scan with your AV of choice.......ESET nod is mine.
Works 99% of the time. Most i remove from customers PC's are a result of idiot user infection,  a dowloaded Exe....One Click ! and bang.
But there again personaly i havent had a virus for the last 3 yrs.........depends on browsing habits and how many ad/crack/porn sites you visit
;D

desol said:

I was a tech for about 7 years, so i've definately seen a few viruses. I've always had the best luck with Sophos emergency scan in safe mode/manual registry edits/system restore...usually in that order. Or...just backup and resoftware if you want to put the time in.

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Yeah, a full os reinstall and resoftware was needed. It'll stay a mystery what the attack vector was. I haven't seen a virus in any system for like a decade, and now this. I wouldn't rule out "idiot user interaction" as the attack vector, but I would be surprised since this isn't exactly my first decade on the net. Not even a second decade in fact.

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to the virus writer, if you don't want your compromised system to be caught, don't make your virus go to idiotic "click for cash" websites even a child knows no one should ever visit.

Kingston said:

Yeah, a full os reinstall and resoftware was needed.

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But never nessesary if you keep a recent "virus free" image of your OS and installed software,on a seperate data drive.

Just in case...........

Same here ....combo fix then run malware bytes then scan with your AV of choice.......ESET nod is mine.
Works 99% of the time. Most i remove from customers PC's are a result of idiot user infection,  a dowloaded Exe....One Click ! and bang.

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Gotta agree on the malware bytes as well. I gotta check out eset though, havent used that.  I've personally been using the MSSE, hasn't let anything though yet, although, the rest of the office has whatever the new norton is called that we update with SMS every other day or so.

PS: i got a potential virus the other day from "FEDEX" saying they couldnt deliver a package... if you get that in your inbox and there is a PDF attachment DO NOT OPEN IT!!! its a nasty lil bugger (i had called fedex before opening it to find out if it was legit... it wasn't and they had me fwd the email and attachment to them.)

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Kingston said:

Yeah, a full os reinstall and resoftware was needed.

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But never nessesary if you keep a recent "virus free" image of your OS and installed software,on a seperate data drive.

Just in case...........

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+1

s2udio said:

Kingston said:

Yeah, a full os reinstall and resoftware was needed.

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But never nessesary if you keep a recent "virus free" image of your OS and installed software,on a seperate data drive.

Just in case...........

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it's all sound advise and I recommend it for everyone.

But my perfectionist brain does not cope well. It requires I do a fresh install of everything, perhaps as a form of system stability placebo. Viruses or not, I flush my system this way maybe once a year. The equivalent of full house cleaning.

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and even in a case of full system image backups, there will always be a certain amount of getting that up to speed with random software updates etc. that creep up.

We used Ghost when i was a tech. Back then Windows 98/2000/XP would take a good while to install + installing all of the needed software, windows updates, utilities, etc, etc. Probably a good 5-6 hours all said and done. Nice thing about an image is that all that time can be condensed down to about 20 minutes. Huge time saving factor + any updates since the image was made would only take a minimal amount of time, compared to the alternative.

We used cd's back then, but these days, with size requirements, it would be on a DVD(or a HD). I think we charged $150 for a person to bring in their machine, all freshly done, and then make an image of it for them.