Mother of all viruses

Athlone_Bhoy

Just got a very bad one. Travels through bluetooth it's affecting my phone and sat nav. Screwed up my whole system it started of using lots of memory then just came all at once.

It keeps changing and hidding files there's no point doing Safe mode because when machine restarts all the programs are there again.

Anyone know what I can do? Can't even reinstall Vista.

EKRIUQ

What makes you thnk it's a virus?

ricman

GO to the virus and malware forum on boards.ie, and follow the instructions there.

IrishTonyO

Athlone_Bhoy wrote: »

Just got a very bad one. Travels through bluetooth it's affecting my phone and sat nav. Screwed up my whole system it started of using lots of memory then just came all at once.

It keeps changing and hidding files there's no point doing Safe mode because when machine restarts all the programs are there again.

Anyone know what I can do? Can't even reinstall Vista.

Why can't you reinstall Vista? Boot from the CD, format the drive and reinstall..

ressem

It's unlikely that a virus would actually be running on the phone and sat-nav.
Your computer probably just sees them as portable drives. In which case a virus would be of the 'autorun.inf' type on these devices.
Disabling autorun or switching off the devices would be a good idea at least while sorting out the issue.
More complicated than it should be...
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/967715

A half decent antivirus should clean and block these.
The free MS security essentials download is OK at detecting these, once it's updated.
http://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials/

You say that "all the programs are there again". You'll need to describe which programs you're referring to.
You could download and burn the kaspersky live CD from http://devbuilds.kaspersky-labs.com/devbuilds/RescueDisk/kav_rescue_2008.iso
It does not require windows, it's a bootable linux CD, and can scan your computers hard drive telling you which virus you are dealing with.

Dermot Illogical

Athlone_Bhoy wrote: »

Just got a very bad one. Travels through bluetooth it's affecting my phone and sat nav. Screwed up my whole system it started of using lots of memory then just came all at once.

It keeps changing and hidding files there's no point doing Safe mode because when machine restarts all the programs are there again.

Anyone know what I can do? Can't even reinstall Vista.

Why would you want to? It causes all the symptoms you've listed.

Cuddlesworth

I think the problem lies between the keyboard and the chair.

Noxin

PEBKAC imo...

shes a nasty one all right...

Athlone_Bhoy

ressem wrote: »

It's unlikely that a virus would actually be running on the phone and sat-nav.
Your computer probably just sees them as portable drives. In which case a virus would be of the 'autorun.inf' type on these devices.
Disabling autorun or switching off the devices would be a good idea at least while sorting out the issue.
More complicated than it should be...
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/967715

A half decent antivirus should clean and block these.
The free MS security essentials download is OK at detecting these, once it's updated.
http://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials/

You say that "all the programs are there again". You'll need to describe which programs you're referring to.
You could download and burn the kaspersky live CD from http://devbuilds.kaspersky-labs.com/devbuilds/RescueDisk/kav_rescue_2008.iso
It does not require windows, it's a bootable linux CD, and can scan your computers hard drive telling you which virus you are dealing with.

It brought me into a different system. It had windows NT on it even though I never seen it before.

I ended up formatting the HD but I can't install windows it came up with some type pf warning about the Bios.

It is some type of virus/spyware. It travels through bluetooth my girlfriend got a sms on her phone with a skull beside it I told her not to open it which she didn't afaik. I knocked off her phone then when I started the phone afain it came up saying updating software then the phone started going funny.

enda1

OP, the mother of all viruses is Vista, just get OSX, or the lesser copy Windows 7.

tricky D

ricman wrote: »

GO to the virus and malware forum on boards.ie, and follow the instructions there.

This.

Read the sticky, carry out the instructions and ASL will help, but only when you carry out the instructions.