I have been attacked by "Antivirus 2008" Virus what should I do?

Question

Man, I'm so pissed off, this virus is a pain in the cheeks, can someone help me as to remove the virus and restore my computer to its normal working system? The virus already have infected my admin account also(i think), 'cause when i want to view the "Display" on my desktop its says "Your system administrator have disabled the Display Panel", also my "All Programs" in the start menu is gone and also the "Log Off" and "Control Panel", I also can't find and delete the virus in the "Registry" cause, again" the system administrator disabled it. Also when i thoroughly scan my computer the virus just keep on coming back when I restart my computer.... guys what should I do this is a very serious matter!! Thanks for the immediate response

Answer 1

This PROBLEM rogue program is all over the internet, infecting hundreds of computers.

Our computer go this, and we got rid of it.  Solution:

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;...

Symantec write up:

http://www.symantec.com/security_respons...

and

http://www.symantec.com/norton/theme.jsp...



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Glad to help

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Answer 2

this sounds serious .

the easiest thing to do is a system sweep restore.

go to start > all programs > accessories > system tools >

system restore. restore to a point in time when the virus was not there it should get restore your missing files. Then download windows defender run it threw a full sweep and if finds any remains of the virus it will delete it.

Good luck.

Sorry about your computer

Answer 3

I downloaded the free version of Malwarebytes and that got rid of it for me.

http://www.softpedia.com/get/Antivirus/M...

Answer 4

Do a system restore to a date before you got infected and then run Malwarebytes free antimalware.  The last time I nuked that bug I had to download it to a thumb drive from my (uninfected) computer and then load it onto the infected machine because it kept blocking the download on the infected machine.

Answer 5

You can remove it by installing and running Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware. It is a free program and will remove it for you . If you try clicking uninstall antivirus xp 2008 in add and remove programs it will not do anything to help you. Be sure to run a 'Full Scan'.

You can find it at http://www.malwarebytes.org

Answer 6

USUALLY Spybot Search and Destroy can take care of AV2008  http://www.safer-networking.org

You can also try malware bytes anti-malware from http://www.malwarebytes.org and SAS Free edition from http://superantispyware.com

There are a lot of variants of this trojan, but one of these three should be able to clean it.

They will ALL detect and TRY to clean it... don't assume you're actually clean until you reboot your machine and scan it again and come up clean.

Afterwards, get yourself a GOOD antivirus product like NOD32 from http://www.eset.com

Answer 7

Get one of these anti-virus listed below.All these anti-virus work very well,they are the leaders in the current market.

Kaspersky anti-virus:

http://kaspersky.anti-virus-download-onl...

MacroVirus anti-virus:

http://macrovirus.anti-virus-download-on...

The Shield Deluxe anti-virus:

http://shield-deluxe.anti-virus-download...

BitDefender anti-virus:

http://bitdefender.anti-virus-download-o...

Answer 8

Well you can probably stop it from running temporarily by using safe mode so you can edit your registry and stuff. But you probably should download both

http://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam.php

and

http://www.safer-networking.org/en/downl...

If you want to manually remove it using safe mode here are the registry keys and files.

Files

c:\Program Files\Antivirus 2008

c:\Program Files\Antivirus 2008\Antvrs.exe

c:\Documents and Settings\forensics\Start Menu\Antivirus

c:\Documents and Settings\forensics\Desktop\antvrs.exe

c:\Documents and Settings\forensics\Application Data\Antivirus

c:\Documents and Settings\forensics\Start Menu\Antivirus\Antivirus 2008.lnk

c:\Documents and Settings\forensics\Start Menu\Antivirus\Uninstall Antivirus.lnk

c:\Documents and Settings\forensics\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5\0L6FS9QR\instlog[1].ht...

c:\Documents and Settings\forensics\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5\IQJ9X5GB\antvrs[1].exe

Registry

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Antivirus

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Antivirus

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\W... "Antivirus"

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\W... "Antivirus2008y"

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\W... "3P_UDEC"