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Freed From My Virus Hell
Dec. 31st, 2008 03:09 amEdited: 3 hours ago, this was my post to complain about the nightmare 3 days I have spent accomplishing absolutely nothing because I've been spending all of my time trying to free my computer from the iron grip of the Virtumonde malware. Because I have a slow internet connection, downloading each anti-virus, anti-spyware, and anti-whatever piece of software that I was going to try next consumed a great deal of time. Some failed partway through and had to be restarted or abandoned completely. I made a couple of trips to the library to download particularly large install files to a flashdrive.
Then of course there was the time lost to the scans themselves. I have a lot of files. Typical scans took over an hour each. They would all report back some number of hideous problems, and then claim to remove them. They lied. Spybot Search & Destroy and Ad Aware both identified Virtumonde and said they killed it, and both did no such thing. Some of the other tools I tried didn't even find it in the first place.
At last, I have found salvation - Malwarebyte's Anti-Malware has earned my eternal gratitude. No ad pages have popped up since it appears to have successfully cleansed my machine. Ad Aware didn't find Virtumonde when I ran it again. Let us all keep our metaphorical fingers crossed that this was indeed a permanent solution to this problem so I can get on with my life again.
Finally, I'd just like to say that people who write computer viruses should be sliced open and forced to eat their own intestines.
Then of course there was the time lost to the scans themselves. I have a lot of files. Typical scans took over an hour each. They would all report back some number of hideous problems, and then claim to remove them. They lied. Spybot Search & Destroy and Ad Aware both identified Virtumonde and said they killed it, and both did no such thing. Some of the other tools I tried didn't even find it in the first place.
At last, I have found salvation - Malwarebyte's Anti-Malware has earned my eternal gratitude. No ad pages have popped up since it appears to have successfully cleansed my machine. Ad Aware didn't find Virtumonde when I ran it again. Let us all keep our metaphorical fingers crossed that this was indeed a permanent solution to this problem so I can get on with my life again.
Finally, I'd just like to say that people who write computer viruses should be sliced open and forced to eat their own intestines.
