andyj
2009-08-11, 10:56
Hi there, came across this site after a search for the virus mentioned in the title. Just a little background info just incase someone needs it, basically on Sunday evening I went on a Motorbike forum trying to find routes round europe, the link took me to a dodgy looking page which did have posts on there however my Firefox froze and my download window opened and was bombarded with "Windows updater.exe" files which I deleted straight away.
I ran Spybot S&D together with my AVG antivirus scan which found some entries and succesfully deleted them. I did a further S&D scan to ensure everything removed and it came back clear.
I then booted up my PC monday morning however it froze on a black screen with the mouse pointer showing, I restarted it and got to the windows loading screen which then froze, restarted again and got to the user login screen and when I selected my name it froze. I then had to go to work so tried several attempts to get on my desktop last night. I did manage to do this and tried to run S&D however it will not load up for some reason. Similarly my AVG scanner will run but freeze about 6 mins into the scan. My friend suggested I download spyware doctor which I managed to run and it found a file "Trojan-spy.zbot.YETH" before it froze on me. There are no options to remove this as it is the free version.
Other symptoms are limited/no internet connection, Desktop just freezes randomly, unable to run spybot search and destry in safe mode or normal mode, AVG anti virus scan gets stuck on a certain file in safe mode and cannot scan past this.
I have noticed from other peoples post that they have run Hijackthis to post a log however I cannot get this to run in normal or safe mode?
Many thanks in advance and sorry for the exhausted list of information
I ran Spybot S&D together with my AVG antivirus scan which found some entries and succesfully deleted them. I did a further S&D scan to ensure everything removed and it came back clear.
I then booted up my PC monday morning however it froze on a black screen with the mouse pointer showing, I restarted it and got to the windows loading screen which then froze, restarted again and got to the user login screen and when I selected my name it froze. I then had to go to work so tried several attempts to get on my desktop last night. I did manage to do this and tried to run S&D however it will not load up for some reason. Similarly my AVG scanner will run but freeze about 6 mins into the scan. My friend suggested I download spyware doctor which I managed to run and it found a file "Trojan-spy.zbot.YETH" before it froze on me. There are no options to remove this as it is the free version.
Other symptoms are limited/no internet connection, Desktop just freezes randomly, unable to run spybot search and destry in safe mode or normal mode, AVG anti virus scan gets stuck on a certain file in safe mode and cannot scan past this.
I have noticed from other peoples post that they have run Hijackthis to post a log however I cannot get this to run in normal or safe mode?
Many thanks in advance and sorry for the exhausted list of information