timespike
2009-01-04, 01:25
Last night I had to kill my firewall t get my modem reset (I did this with a rep from my ISP on the phone during a call I initiated). I (I know, very stupidly; it was late) forgot to switch my firewall back on. Today I looked up some song lyrics and my antivirus program threw a warning my way. I immediately re-engaged my firewall, downloaded the latest updates for Spybot, locked down the internet, then used the safely remove hardware tool to safely unplug the USB connection to he web. Unfortunately, apparently in that short time, the spyware in my system got quite a foothold. The first search revealed virtumonde and smithfraud-C and I think I've also got some win-32 in there as well. Where do I even start? Would doing a system restore to some date a few weeks back fix things, or is that not going to help?
I'm communicating from another PC I have for this, and I don't want to reconnect the infected one to the internet unless absolutely necessary until I know it's clean. If need be, I can transfer files to it via an external HD or USB flash drives.
I'm communicating from another PC I have for this, and I don't want to reconnect the infected one to the internet unless absolutely necessary until I know it's clean. If need be, I can transfer files to it via an external HD or USB flash drives.