Malware seems to be targeting spybot

[brisingre]

Brace for parentheses. Sorry. I get kind of carried away.

I have an infection (I don't know what it is. I had virtumonde a while ago, but I was pretty sure I'd killed it.) I normally rely on Spybot and CA Antivirus to take down infections (I get a lot of them) but this one isn't turning up on CA (no surprises there) or on Spybot (which is surprising.) However, the virus (or whatever exactly it is) is targeting Spybot. It seems to have somehow blocked your server. I'm posting this through what looks very much like a German proxy. It is also blocking spybot from updating, and when I tried to reinstall it, it blocked the downloader. (Not the download, I found a corner of the spybot site it hadn't cut me off from and downloaded it from there. The download of the actual program, after the download of the installer.) I can, if necessary, do a wipe, but I've got about fifteen gigs of ripped cd's to back up or re-rip, and it took forever the first time, so I'd rather not. I'm here as a last resort. I'm sorry to bother you.

Thanks!

-bris

[md usa spybot fan]

brisingre:

Consider posting in the Malware Removal forum and having someone take a look at your system.

If you decide to have an experienced malware removal specialist assist you, please follow the procedure in this link and produce a HijackThis log:

• "BEFORE you POST"(READ this Procedure BEFORE Requesting Assistance).

After you have read those instructions, start your own thread in the Malware Removal forum, making sure to post the HijackThis log produced from those instructions.