ext_1646 ([identity profile] chopchica.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] la_vie_noire 2009-04-23 05:56 pm (UTC)

The only thing that worked for me was malwarebytes - antimalware. I tried spybot and it only found half of it and it regenerated and regenerated and I think it contaminated spybot itself. malwarebytes got it all.

First thing: TURN OFF YOUR INTERNET CONNECTION. This virus can go online without you knowing about it and download more malicious malware.

Get malwarebytes on another computer and use a flash drive or something like that to put it on yours. If you try downloading it from your infected computer, it will almost definitely install a messed up version that won't remove the virus and will make it worse (this is one evil virus).

Run malwarebytes like six times. Run it in safe mode. Restart. Run it again. Restart and run it out of safe mode. Once you get two runs in a row without any files being found, chances are you're in the clear.

You have to accept though that different versions of vundo can be worse. It may end up being that you will have to totally wipe your hard drive. I got lucky with malwarebytes and hopefully you will too.

I've got a post on this on my journal under the tag "infected" if you want to see what other people had to say. Good luck!

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