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Subject: Virus Scan

I don't see you doing anything to help our country.
Except sitting at home, naked, eating twinkies, rubbing your hands together going "Heh. Target Destroyed. Mission Accomplished." Oh wait. that's not helping.

Alright Flood, well the day has come. Somehow despite every precaution I managed to get infected with the olmarik trojan. Now I did my research and found a program that appears to have located the file. Once it was located ESET instantly quarantined the files that were hidden. My question is, is there any better way to be sure the virus is completely off my system? I ran a scan with ESET as well as Malwarebytes, and currently the Microsoft Malicious Software Removal tool. The program used to identify the trojans location was tdsskiller, which is a Kaspersky Lab malware scanner.

It appears I have rid myself of the virus, but I just want to be sure that is the case, so any advice would be great. Thank you in advance Flood.

  • 12.05.2012 6:29 PM PDT
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Also be sure to run CCleaner's registry scan to make sure all entries the virus created/changed are repaired.

  • 12.05.2012 6:31 PM PDT

I don't see you doing anything to help our country.
Except sitting at home, naked, eating twinkies, rubbing your hands together going "Heh. Target Destroyed. Mission Accomplished." Oh wait. that's not helping.


Posted by: DING DONG BANNU
Also be sure to run CCleaner's registry scan to make sure all entries the virus created/changed are repaired.
Did that already, though is there any advantage to running more than a single pass deletion?

  • 12.05.2012 6:32 PM PDT
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Posted by: Black Eagle X99
Posted by: DING DONG BANNU
Also be sure to run CCleaner's registry scan to make sure all entries the virus created/changed are repaired.
Did that already, though is there any advantage to running more than a single pass deletion?

Hey, can't really hurt to scan again. You're probably fine, but if you really want to make sure you could give it a shot.

  • 12.05.2012 6:34 PM PDT

I don't see you doing anything to help our country.
Except sitting at home, naked, eating twinkies, rubbing your hands together going "Heh. Target Destroyed. Mission Accomplished." Oh wait. that's not helping.


Posted by: DING DONG BANNU
Posted by: Black Eagle X99
Posted by: DING DONG BANNU
Also be sure to run CCleaner's registry scan to make sure all entries the virus created/changed are repaired.
Did that already, though is there any advantage to running more than a single pass deletion?

Hey, can't really hurt to scan again. You're probably fine, but if you really want to make sure you could give it a shot.
I suppose not. Well good. I figured the programs and scans I ran would suffice, but I take no chances.

Though the question is now posed as to where I got a malicious trojan, seeing as the only download I'd done before it was detected was for an Nvidia drive update.

  • 12.05.2012 6:39 PM PDT

How did you know you were infected originally?

  • 12.05.2012 6:39 PM PDT

I don't see you doing anything to help our country.
Except sitting at home, naked, eating twinkies, rubbing your hands together going "Heh. Target Destroyed. Mission Accomplished." Oh wait. that's not helping.


Posted by: everywhere116
How did you know you were infected originally?
Well I started to have weird screen glitches where the start bar would turn white, then ESET popped up saying they detected a trojan but could not fix it. After a bit of research it appears it was somehow masking it's location or something along those lines. The program I used then located the files which were immediately quarantined by ESET. I'm just hoping there isn't some undetectable remnant hiding out somewhere.

  • 12.05.2012 6:42 PM PDT

Best thing would be to back up your files and reinstall Windows.

  • 12.05.2012 6:42 PM PDT
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Boot into safe mode and scan again.

  • 12.05.2012 6:43 PM PDT

What is ESET?

  • 12.05.2012 6:43 PM PDT

I don't see you doing anything to help our country.
Except sitting at home, naked, eating twinkies, rubbing your hands together going "Heh. Target Destroyed. Mission Accomplished." Oh wait. that's not helping.

Posted by: ABotelho
Best thing would be to back up your files and reinstall Windows.
I do plan on doing that tomorrow, but I need to find the disk again first. Until that point I would like to ensure at least a little bit of security.

Posted by: everywhere116
What is ESET?
A very good anti-virus program, it doesn't use up a lot of processing power, so unlike programs such as Norton there is no drop in speed while it is active.

  • 12.05.2012 6:46 PM PDT


Posted by: Black Eagle X99
Posted by: ABotelho
Best thing would be to back up your files and reinstall Windows.
I do plan on doing that tomorrow, but I need to find the disk again first. Until that point I would like to ensure at least a little bit of security.

Posted by: everywhere116
What is ESET?
A very good anti-virus program, it doesn't use up a lot of processing power, so unlike programs such as Norton there is no drop in speed while it is active.


You could always download an .ISO for your version of Windows, and mount it to a usb.

  • 12.05.2012 6:49 PM PDT

I don't see you doing anything to help our country.
Except sitting at home, naked, eating twinkies, rubbing your hands together going "Heh. Target Destroyed. Mission Accomplished." Oh wait. that's not helping.


Posted by: ABotelho

Posted by: Black Eagle X99
Posted by: ABotelho
Best thing would be to back up your files and reinstall Windows.
I do plan on doing that tomorrow, but I need to find the disk again first. Until that point I would like to ensure at least a little bit of security.

Posted by: everywhere116
What is ESET?
A very good anti-virus program, it doesn't use up a lot of processing power, so unlike programs such as Norton there is no drop in speed while it is active.


You could always download an .ISO for your version of Windows, and mount it to a usb.
After further consideration that is actually the only way I could reinstall, as my disk drive has been broken for months now. This computer is on it's 6th year now anyway. I am more worried about making sure my files I will be transferring to my new computer are not infected with any of this. So if you guys don't think I will have any more problems then I thank you all for your help and good day.

Edit: Speak of the devil, Microsoft deep scan has 2 hits so far. Yay...

[Edited on 12.05.2012 6:55 PM PST]

  • 12.05.2012 6:54 PM PDT

"There's a very fine line between not listening, and not caring. I'd like to think that I walk that line every day."

Well now I feel as though pressing "remove" whenever MB finds a trojan actually does nothing

  • 12.05.2012 7:06 PM PDT
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Posted by: BROWN HAWK
Well now I feel as though pressing "remove" whenever MB finds a trojan actually does nothing
Usually, it does a pretty good job at removing most malware.

Unfortunately, there's also the kind that's a much bigger pain in the ass to remove. Some types of malware create copies or embed themselves in restore points or do other nasty things to avoid being removed.

  • 12.05.2012 7:09 PM PDT

Pure Insanity
The point of war is not to die for one's clan, but it's to make the other bastard die for his
Right before you die, there is always a chance to save yourself, sieze that chance and live to fight another day
The best way to kill someone is to fight them with the same weapons they use and make them know you are better than them, not because of superior weaponry, but because of superior skill.
Hidden in the shadows, Clothed in camo, Armed to the teeth. Hunting.

Well, you should've had your computer vaccinated.

  • 12.05.2012 7:10 PM PDT


Posted by: CND AAA Beef

Posted by: BROWN HAWK
Well now I feel as though pressing "remove" whenever MB finds a trojan actually does nothing
Usually, it does a pretty good job at removing most malware.

Unfortunately, there's also the kind that's a much bigger pain in the ass to remove. Some types of malware create copies or embed themselves in restore points or do other nasty things to avoid being removed.
Such creative genius being used for such malicious purposes.

Sometimes I wonder what kind of people could be so smart to do something like this and yet so morally depraved enough to do something like this.

  • 12.05.2012 7:10 PM PDT

I don't see you doing anything to help our country.
Except sitting at home, naked, eating twinkies, rubbing your hands together going "Heh. Target Destroyed. Mission Accomplished." Oh wait. that's not helping.


Posted by: everywhere116

Posted by: CND AAA Beef

Posted by: BROWN HAWK
Well now I feel as though pressing "remove" whenever MB finds a trojan actually does nothing
Usually, it does a pretty good job at removing most malware.

Unfortunately, there's also the kind that's a much bigger pain in the ass to remove. Some types of malware create copies or embed themselves in restore points or do other nasty things to avoid being removed.
Such creative genius being used for such malicious purposes.

Sometimes I wonder what kind of people could be so smart to do something like this and yet so morally depraved enough to do something like this.
Precisely. I thought I had my system locked down tight. I suppose you can never be prepared enough. Well good news, the scan is finishing up now, and it looks like these are the last 2 problem files left.

[Edited on 12.05.2012 7:37 PM PST]

  • 12.05.2012 7:37 PM PDT