virtumonde & IE

[googolman]

Spybot tells me that I have been infected by Virtumonde. It also expressly advises me not to use IE while infected. So I am using my wife's computer to ask this question. If I cannot or should not use IE while infected, how am I supposed to get hold of Trend Micro HijackThis and Kaspersy Antivirus?

So how do I get rid of Virtumonde?

[googolman]

I do have SuperAntiVirus, if this does the same job as Kaspersky. But I do not know what HijackThis is supposed to be. It appears to be something that everbody except me has on their machine.

[googolman]

My SuperAntiVirus is actually SuperAntiSpyware (silly me) but after running that and finding 18 errors (Vundo type), which I quarantined and removed, Spybot found no threats.

[Blade81]

Hi

You can use IE to download HijackThis. :)


Download and install TrendMicro HijackThis (http://www.trendsecure.com/portal/en-US/_download/HJTInstall.exe)
* Once installed open HijackThis by clicking Start > Programs > HijackThis and click the button labeled
Do a system scan only

* Click the scan button in the lower left hand corner of the interface and HijackThis will quickly scan your system.
* Once the scan is complete the scan button will now read save log. Click this button to save the log file to your PC. Once you select where you would like to save the file it will open in your systems default text editor. Typically this application is Notepad. Post the log here.

[Blade81]

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