%26quot;Virus Program%26quot; has taken over my computer?
For the last few days I've been having a major virus related issue. I have AVG and Ad-Aware which run constantly in the background, and I also have Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware which I have never really used before until now. I use a wireless internet connecting through my computer to my University's wireless network.
My problem is that now whenever I have my computer on, a few minutes after I start it up I get messages from an %26quot;antivirus%26quot; program that I do not have, telling me that windows has detected a security threat, that my computer is infected and saying %26quot;click here for the scan you computer%26quot; (certainly a very trustworthy program). I always close the bubble but then I get bombarded with messages that specific files are infected. Usually it says %26quot;Application cannot be executed. The file wuauclt.exe is infected. Do you want to activate your antivirus software now?%26quot; I don't know what wuaclt is. Whenever I try to open a program -- any program at all, whether it be itunes or just my program manager, the message changes specific to whatever I'm trying to open: %26quot;the file itunes.exe is infected%26quot; or whatever, and usually the program does not open. These messages come from my taskbar where there is a little blue shield icon with a white stripe. I have tried right-clicking on this icon to close it like I would do with any %26quot;normal%26quot; application in the taskbar, and when I do it pulls up a %26quot;virus scan%26quot; window for %26quot;Antivirus Live%26quot; with 34 infections found -- always the same things. It often, but not always, will also open a window in the main screen of my computer giving me the same message and playing that distinctive %26quot;windows error%26quot; sound. After a while, it will automatically open an IE browser window (I use Firefox) asking me to buy this %26quot;Antivirus Live%26quot; program for $50 to $70. I closed this window a few minutes ago and it automatically opened another IE window with a porn site -- very classy when I%26quot;m working the front desk of my building. It will also open the Windows Security Center automatically, but I don't think it's the real security center because it says that I do not have anti-virus protection when in fact I do.
The first few times this happened, it would either go away on its own after a few minutes, or I could restart my computer and it would work properly on restart. Since my antivirus/antispyware programs weren't finding anything significant I didn't worry too much, and there was a full day of no problems at all. Now, however, the problem seems worse than ever, and I can't even really use my computer. As a college student this is a major problem for me.
AVG has found a few trojans and quite a few tracking cookies, but removing them has not taken care of the problem. The anti-spyware and anti-malware have not found anything. I just downloaded and installed avast, which I used to have a while ago and I prefer over AVG, and I'm currently running a scan but it hasn't found anything yet. I don't know what is going on but it's driving me crazy and I would like any help available to try and fix it.
%26quot;Virus Program%26quot; has taken over my computer? For the last few days I've been having a major virus related issue?
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%26quot;Virus Program%26quot; has taken over my computer? For the last few days I've been having a major virus related issue?
You need to boot into safe mode with networking, update and run your Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware asap.
First you have way to many Anti virus programs, Download spy bot Search and destroy
Save your personal files amd reload the OS
Save all your personal files and then re-image your pc by using the disc that came with it. It would take way too much time to try and remove all of the virus', trojans, etc, so you just need a fresh start.
TIP: If you don't trust a website you should always scan a file first before downloading it.
Antivirus Live is a well known rogue anti-virus. Your computer really only has 1 virus, antivirus live! It's a trick to get you into paying for software that keeps putting more and more viruses on your computer.
If malwarebytes cannot destroy it, try uninstalling it and downloading spybot search and destroy in safe mode.
If it doesn't work, try renaming spybot %26quot;Cookies.exe%26quot;
Once again if it fails a reformat of windows would be best
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Boot your computer up in Safe Mode. Download a Norten AV Trial. Scan your computer. Download A Squared anti-virus, get the 30 day trial, scan your computer. Download Windows Defender. Scan your computer. Scan with AVG. Scan with Malwarebytes. Open windows Defender. Find the tool that allows you to control which programs run on start-up, turn off things that look obviously out of place. Go to temporary internet files. DELETE EVERYTHING! Turn on your computer. Repeat. Done.
