[The Skeptic]

Hi everyone.

I wonder if you could help me with this retro-problem. I say retro because out of lack of time I had to format the computer. Still, I wonder what malware I had and what is the solution for it's removal.

A computer was brought to me with a screen-wide message, yellow on blue, which told me (I don't remember the exact text) that I spyware was discovered and I need to install an antispyware program (not a specific one).

The computer would boot up to the logon screen and when I logged this message would show up, covering the entire screen for 30 seconds or so, the computer will start a log off and go back to the log-on screen. This exact phenomena happened in safe mode, last good confuguration etc. No way to boot up.

I rigged the hard disk to another computer and in safe mode ran AVAST, AVG Antispyware, Spybot. AD-Aware, AVG free antivirus anf a 19 days trial version of Kasperski. There were lots of high-risk malwares of all strips. However, the particular one was not found and removed. I still couldn't boot. Eventually I clean formatted.

I searched on the net but couldn't find any solution. The problem, in a minor version, is familiar but not on the scale I am talking about, which prevented me from any form of booting up.

Any one knows what the problem and solution are?


Thanks in advance.

The Skeptic

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Hello

That sounds like Smitfraud

It hijacks your desktop background and tries to get users to buy a fake anti-spyware program, saying their PC is infected.

Not too tough to remove

I usually have those logs fixed in less than 10 posts.


Any more questions ?

[Rorschach112]

Hello

That sounds like Smitfraud

It hijacks your desktop background and tries to get users to buy a fake anti-spyware program, saying their PC is infected.

Not too tough to remove

I usually have those logs fixed in less than 10 posts.


Any more questions ?

[The Skeptic]

Thanks a lot, Rorschach112.

This will be my last question, as I do not intend to become a malware expert right now.

I believe that for this you run smitfraud fix, isn't it? Can you run it on a computer that is not bootable in any mode?


Thanks again / The Skeptic

[Rorschach112]

Hello

I believe that for this you run smitfraud fix, isn't it? Can you run it on a computer that is not bootable in any mode?

Yes you need to run SmitfraudFix in Safe Mode. If a computer can't run in any mode then you are going to have some trouble. I am not sure how you would go about fixing that actually. No doubt it would be something complicated like using the Recovery Console.

Let me know if you have any more questions

[The Skeptic]

Like I said, that was my last question.


Many thanks.

[Rorschach112]

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