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Off-Topic => All of all! => Topic started by: drenrin2120 on February 09, 2010, 03:38:06 PM

Title: Scariest Sudden Viral Attack
Post by: drenrin2120 on February 09, 2010, 03:38:06 PM
I wasn't on any sites I wasn't familiar with, I have two usually reliable anti-virus programs protecting me; still, out of no where, a warning popped up telling me my computer was infected and I had to download "Anti-virus Soft" immediately. In an instant, my task manager would not open, my anti-virus programs were shut down, any links to sites with steps to removing spyware, malware, virus, etc, were blocked, and opening system settings was disabled.

After about ten minutes of scrambling around just trying to find some way to fight back, I uploaded some last minute back up files to a flashcard and shut the computer off. When I started it back up, I immediately opened my task manager and closed and programs that looked suspicious before they started shutting me down again. Everything seems fine now, I'm running two full system scans and looking up ways to thoroughly make sure the problem is resolved.

Point and case: the last twenty minutes were scary as ****. Especially because this is my laptop and if any stupid virus corrupted it I would've been very sad. =(

Title: Re: Scariest Sudden Viral Attack
Post by: Legacy of Elecrusher on February 09, 2010, 03:40:18 PM
(http://www.japanator.com/elephant/ul/6714-Viral_angry.jpg)\

c wat i did thar?
Title: Re: Scariest Sudden Viral Attack
Post by: Prpl_Mage on February 09, 2010, 04:00:10 PM
A hacker I bet.
Title: Re: Scariest Sudden Viral Attack
Post by: SaiKar on February 09, 2010, 05:21:06 PM
The same thing happened to me a couple days ago.

The way I beat it was to stop it from loading at startup (control panels > programs > stop a program from loading at startup) and found something that had been added to the list only a few minutes ago and was an incoherent garble of letters. I removed it from the list then I restarted the computer. With the program not running on restart, I was free to smite it at my leisure.

Still, scary for a time.
Title: Re: Scariest Sudden Viral Attack
Post by: Valiere on February 09, 2010, 06:37:08 PM
What OS are you guys using? I'm under the naive perception that Windows 7 will protect me from anything.
Title: Re: Scariest Sudden Viral Attack
Post by: HackersTotalMassLaser on February 09, 2010, 06:53:25 PM
That happened to me about a month ago. It happened around the time the charas hack thing. It started with adobe reader acting up and then not being able to open any anti virus sites.

In conscious, it is a virus of sorts, but I was able to get rid of by going back in time and a handy usb anti virus
Title: Re: Scariest Sudden Viral Attack
Post by: Darkfox on February 09, 2010, 07:13:02 PM
This is that Rogue Antivirus, recently it has gotten especially malicious because people have started to find the makers of this virus. Their phone number, contact info, and other things got found out. They were making money at first but now they just want to mess people up out of anger.
Title: Re: Scariest Sudden Viral Attack
Post by: _JeT_ on February 09, 2010, 09:08:00 PM
I had that Antivirus Vista 2010 thing the other day, real annoying piece of garbage. Good thing I had my precious Malwarebytes kill the lousy thing...
Title: Re: Scariest Sudden Viral Attack
Post by: Ben on February 09, 2010, 10:22:19 PM
Ive had that same pop-up before....but then windows7 kicked the **** out of it
Title: Re: Scariest Sudden Viral Attack
Post by: Darkfox on February 09, 2010, 10:30:37 PM
...my precious...

D=
Title: Re: Scariest Sudden Viral Attack
Post by: fruckert on February 09, 2010, 11:03:25 PM
Go grab Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware, that'll take care of it guaranteed.
Title: Re: Scariest Sudden Viral Attack
Post by: Valiere on February 09, 2010, 11:06:08 PM
Ive had that same pop-up before....but then windows7 kicked the **** out of it

That's what I wanted to hear.
Title: Re: Scariest Sudden Viral Attack
Post by: Grandy on February 09, 2010, 11:26:24 PM
"Charas hack thing"? What did I miss?
Title: Re: Scariest Sudden Viral Attack
Post by: fruckert on February 09, 2010, 11:30:24 PM
Oh, Charas got hacked.
Fucked everything up for a couple of days.
Title: Re: Scariest Sudden Viral Attack
Post by: drenrin2120 on February 09, 2010, 11:37:02 PM
Go grab Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware, that'll take care of it guaranteed.

I'll give it a shot. I have Advanced System Care and the latest Avira now. I think I read somewhere that the "rogue virus" is the only thing the free version of avira doesn't check for so the customers will buy the full version. Kinda fucked up if you ask me, but I guess they DO have to make a profit.
Title: Re: Scariest Sudden Viral Attack
Post by: Legacy of Elecrusher on February 10, 2010, 02:55:22 AM
Go grab Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware, that'll take care of it guaranteed.
I support this.
Title: Re: Scariest Sudden Viral Attack
Post by: Avnas on February 10, 2010, 02:56:51 AM
Get Malwarebytes Anti-Malware, Spyware Doctor, and rkill and Task Manager Fix. rkill kills off malicious processes (if the virus closes it just run it again, it will work eventually) and Task Manager Fix reenables Task Manager, so long as you ran rkill beforehand.
Title: Re: Scariest Sudden Viral Attack
Post by: drenrin2120 on February 10, 2010, 03:45:55 AM
I've got Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware and it located and removed two malicious .exe files. Thanks, fruckert!
Title: Re: Scariest Sudden Viral Attack
Post by: Archem on February 10, 2010, 04:29:48 AM
"Charas hack thing"? What did I miss?
Nasty stuff happened. Started on the 23rd of December, I believe. Things seemed to go back to normal for Xmas, but it was right back to square one the next day. A bunch of us couldn't do much of anything. Some people were able to post, others had to find work-arounds. Some were totally locked out. Login and logout stuff was frucked up pretty badly, too.
Title: Re: Scariest Sudden Viral Attack
Post by: HackersTotalMassLaser on February 10, 2010, 12:12:35 PM
I had no problem getting into the site at all or posting, but I do believe I had the most severe problem when it came to adobe reader.
Title: Re: Scariest Sudden Viral Attack
Post by: Darkfox on February 10, 2010, 05:51:25 PM
I had no problem posting either and I was pretty well protected.
Title: Re: Scariest Sudden Viral Attack
Post by: fruckert on February 10, 2010, 11:14:43 PM
I couldn't even log on, it kept throwing me off with the massive memory allocation error.
Title: Re: Scariest Sudden Viral Attack
Post by: zuhane on February 10, 2010, 11:16:08 PM
Viruses are terrifying. Just the thought of some complete cun... mean person... making something
which specifically infects and spreads across files you own and corrupts them, sometimes for no
benefit of their own, sickens me.
Title: Re: Scariest Sudden Viral Attack
Post by: HackersTotalMassLaser on February 11, 2010, 12:11:59 AM
Viruses; the semen of the internet. Except you realize you got screwed when you see it.
Title: Re: Scariest Sudden Viral Attack
Post by: Grandy on February 11, 2010, 12:19:28 AM
But it was an actual hack? By whom?
Title: Re: Scariest Sudden Viral Attack
Post by: HackersTotalMassLaser on February 11, 2010, 02:29:59 AM
Nobody knows...
Title: Re: Scariest Sudden Viral Attack
Post by: fruckert on February 11, 2010, 04:52:24 AM
Viruses are terrifying. Just the thought of some complete cun... mean person... making something
which specifically infects and spreads across files you own and corrupts them, sometimes for no
benefit of their own, sickens me.
The answer to "Why?"
Usually to prove they can.
Just like quite a bit of hacks.
When my stepdad was younger (he's around 30), he would hack into banks and the school just to send off of a security alarm.
Title: Re: Scariest Sudden Viral Attack
Post by: Grandy on February 11, 2010, 03:46:18 PM
The answer to "Why?"
Usually to prove they can.
Just like quite a bit of hacks.
When my stepdad was younger (he's around 30), he would hack into banks and the school just to send off of a security alarm.

No offense, but your stepdad was a prick.
Title: Re: Scariest Sudden Viral Attack
Post by: X_marks_the_ed on February 11, 2010, 06:14:45 PM
cun... mean person...

I think the first one made more sense.
Title: Re: Scariest Sudden Viral Attack
Post by: Archem on February 11, 2010, 08:39:44 PM
Cunning person, of course.
Title: Re: Scariest Sudden Viral Attack
Post by: HackersTotalMassLaser on February 12, 2010, 12:28:16 AM
Funny I thought he was gonna spell constipated incorrectly.
Title: Re: Scariest Sudden Viral Attack
Post by: fruckert on February 12, 2010, 12:47:48 AM
No offense, but your stepdad was a prick.
Younger also means like 12.
He's a goddamn genius, so he's a prick because he knows he can kick your *** at just about anything.
Title: Re: Scariest Sudden Viral Attack
Post by: Archem on February 12, 2010, 12:49:51 AM
Oh yeah? What about a ball-kicking contest?
Title: Re: Scariest Sudden Viral Attack
Post by: fruckert on February 12, 2010, 11:23:10 PM
Actually he's quite fit.
So yeah, damn near anything.
Title: Re: Scariest Sudden Viral Attack
Post by: Archem on February 12, 2010, 11:49:50 PM
Ok, a rape contest. Who's better at it?

I refuse to specify whether he'll be giving or receiving.
Title: Re: Scariest Sudden Viral Attack
Post by: fruckert on February 12, 2010, 11:53:11 PM
I do believe there is no contest.
Title: Re: Scariest Sudden Viral Attack
Post by: Darkfox on February 13, 2010, 04:32:21 AM
*facepalm*
Title: Re: Scariest Sudden Viral Attack
Post by: Zerlina on February 15, 2010, 12:58:08 AM
Something like that happened to me when I was a kid. I was on this Zelda site, and those gray alert boxes kept popping up, and every time I hit "ok" another one would come up. The messages were always weird like "Hi" "how are you?" "Why don't you go outside?" "Is this annoying you?"

It was harmless, but since I was  really lame kid I started crying because I thought I broke the computer.