So apparently the other night we found out that a blaster worm, and something else, had made its way onto our desktop. I don't know how it happened, but it basically stopped everything. My dad ran a scan and it didn't come up with everything, but apparently it's embedded on our computer, because even after the scan, it came back. Right now we're having someone from Microsoft Security Essentials take control of our computer and fix it, but if that doesn't work, my dad is going to have to rebuild a second computer. The reason I'm putting this in the Discussion section is because I need some people to help me figure out exactly what could have been done to get this worm on the computer. Right now I'm using my dad's laptop(he doesn't know since he's gone with my mom and brother), but until the computer is fixed, I'm only going to be able to get on a little bit at my school's library. So the sites I usually go to are youtube, here, deviantart, mangastream/fox, hotmail, and serebii. I don't know where my brother goes, but apparently he claims it's places his computer teacher says is fine. Does anyone know if there's anything from these sites that could get a worm on the computer? I've scanned all the videos I've gotten, and they're good, and I haven't downloaded anything else for a while. I don't know what's going on, but I would really like to know how this got on the computer. So would my dad as well, but I just need to know if there's anything I might be doing unintentionally, or if my brother is, or if it's some sort of 3rd party, in a sense. We don't know what the second thing was, all that alerted us was that someone was coming in through a backdoor in Autodesk Maya. But hopefully we took care of that with all the updates we installed from the website
Was this something that appeared overnight or were you on the Internet when a message appeared saying things were detected? If it's the latter, what were you doing at the time of its appearance? Not accusing you, of course, but it can't hurt to get a frame of reference.
Easiest way to get any form of virus is if you've downloaded something. You may try to say you haven't, but someone who has used the computer has most likely downloaded something stupidly, and voila, virus. However, there are sites that may force viruses onto your computer, but that is usually caused by lack of a firewall, which most computers already have. The sites you've listed don't contain viruses, but you may have received a virus in your hotmail. Also Um, no? A virus can easily be removed if you format the hard drive. If the HDD is completely unavailable, get a new HDD. Of course, at the off-chance the virus has actually attacked the BIOS and all that jazz that I'm too lazy to look into, you don't need to rebuild a computer.
You actually download stuff of the internet constantly. You know what a site looks like because you received information about that. So you could have gotten it from going anywhere. No site is 100% secure. That is why you need to always have good anti virus.
No, this happened instantly for me. I was just watching youtube and doing this on another tab and suddenly everything got taken down and a scan came up telling us that there was the worm on the computer. And every time I tried to pull anything, and I do mean anything up, it automatically got taken down in just a few seconds. I couldn't even use the Task Manager. My dad apparently stalled it by restarting the computer and pulled up the task manager to shut down whatever had the virus and it kept it from continuing, but I guess it didn't help. The scan from security essentials apparently didn't go deep enough to catch the virus. um, yes? It's just like the one that's on the other computer. It's embedded on the computer. No matter how many times we try, it will always come back. It's like trying to get rid of weeds, but you just can't get far enough into the roots. I may not know anything about computers, but he knows plenty, so if he knows it has to be rebuilt, it needs to be rebuilt. Working with computer for 20+ years, as well as having a brother, and a son(my brother) who mess with computers helps with that kind of knowledge.
Try running a scan with Malwarebytes Anti-Malware. Run a full scan with the free version and see if that does the trick--it sounds similar to viruses I've dealt with before.
well, it seems fine for now. The only thing is my dad doesn't want me going on anything but for school. Even here. So until we find out exactly what happened and if it's going to happen again, I'll only be getting on so often after my classes on mondays and wednesdays. I might sneak a little on here on home, but I know my dad wouldn't want me to. (he doesn't even want us on youtube anymore darn it) And we only have Security Essentials, but he ran a full scan of that 3 times, and it still came up with nothing. It just kept creeping back up when we weren't looking
I had a tough virus once, it prevented me to do anything unless I started windows on safe mode. Even Malewarebytes wasn' t enough to get rid of it. I finally found something that worked : SUPERAntiSpyware Free Edition. http://www.superantispyware.com/download.html BTW, do you sometimes plug a USB drive into your library computers ? Did you run an anti-virus check on all your USB drives ? Sometimes viruses lodge themselves there, they can travel from one computer to another that way .
My personal favorites for free antivirus are avast and avg in that order. Never tried superantispyware though, so that is worth a look too. To further the point that you could have gotten it anywhere you may want to try googles diagnostic tool. http://www.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site= With the site that you want to investigate at the end. So if I want to look into kh-vids I would use http://www.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site= kh-vids.net And we actually have a clean bill of health. Very rare if you look around. Google doesn't even give that to themselves (although they obviously they are still in good standing)
I rarely ever use my USB on the library computers. And as far as I know they're safe as well, since everything is restarted when you get off the browser. I can't think of the official term of it. And every day they also have people to check the computer to make sure there's nothing on them. Far as I know, the library computers are clean as can be
It doesn't hurt to make sure. Assuming you're using Security Essentials, right-click on the flash drive in My Computer and select Scan with Microsoft Security Essentials. Because flash drives have only a few GBs of memory on them, usually, the scan will probably take under a minute. Better safe than sorry.
