James. Posted 12 February 2009 Share Posted 12 February 2009 Wankers. Admittedly I was browsing some slightly spurious websites however the result is that I now have a rogue piece of software on my computer called XP Police Antivirus. I have lost all administrative privileges and I keep getting fake alerts saying my computer is under attack and I need to spend $20 to register so the "attack" can be stopped. A virus that disguises itself as an antivirus program. Cunning. Anyone else had this? How did you remove it? I see some websites with guides and downloads to help. If anyone has any personal recommendations I'd love to hear them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DB11 Posted 12 February 2009 Share Posted 12 February 2009 Zolob virus. Very common and easy to remove (for me ) However, what's even more cunning, when you begin trying to remove it it realises what you are doing, panics, and pisses you off even more eg. closing down random programs, giving loads of pop ups so you can't do what you're doing, stops you running exe programs. The bastard one is where it ****s up the registry preventing you going on the internet. Oh, and if you pay $20 it will stay on the PC but in a couple of months will start giving the pop ups etc. telling you to pay again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James. Posted 12 February 2009 Author Share Posted 12 February 2009 Zolob virus. Very common and easy to remove (for me ) Any chance you might tell me how I do it? I found the below links which all seem pretty useful... http://windowsprotection.net/how-to-remove...-removal-guide/ http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qi...11160243AAM5qug http://www.myantispyware.com/2009/01/27/ho...lice-antivirus/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
City Fan Posted 12 February 2009 Share Posted 12 February 2009 I would back everything important up for a start. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daggers Posted 12 February 2009 Share Posted 12 February 2009 Have you tried turning it off a... Is this getting the remotest bit tedious? Normally I hate comedy show catchphrases but this one just seems to run and run for me. ...nd on again? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James. Posted 12 February 2009 Author Share Posted 12 February 2009 Have you tried turning it off a...Is this getting the remotest bit tedious? Normally I hate comedy show catchphrases but this one just seems to run and run for me. ...nd on again? I'll turn you off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lavrentis Posted 12 February 2009 Share Posted 12 February 2009 Try Malware Bytes. I had a similar virus. Link Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lavrentis Posted 12 February 2009 Share Posted 12 February 2009 Try Malware Bytes. I had a similar virus.Link Has it worked? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DB11 Posted 12 February 2009 Share Posted 12 February 2009 Any chance you might tell me how I do it? Run HijackThis to take out all unwanted start up items and processes. If you're lucky the virus should be here so it will stop affecting you but you still need to take it out even if it's disabled now. Run CCleaner on all the computer accounts (if the strain of virus is bad then it will close this as it realises you are trying to remove it. if this happens boot into safe mode and do this) Once CCleaner has been ran download MALWARE BYTES and then update it, do a quick scan (as you've ran ccleaner to remove all the crap it should only take around 5 minutes) this should find some infections and then remove them. Reboot PC. If you want (not really a necessity but I would) re-run Malware Bytes but on full scan this time With your anti virus eg. AVG or Norton update it then run a full system scan Reboot. Job done. HijackThis : http://www.download.com/Trend-Micro-Hijack...4-10227353.html CCleaner : http://download.piriform.com/ccsetup216.exe MalwareBytes : http://www.download.com/Malwarebytes-Anti-...4-10804572.html If they start closing down because the virus knows that you're trying to remove it then reboot in safe mode and try running them. If this doesn't work and they still don't open then you'd could take out the hard drive, put it in another computer as a slave and then boot it up. As it's the slave it won't boot up to this hard drive but you can still access it from the computer. After this, tell the working computer to scan the other hard drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Reverend Posted 12 February 2009 Share Posted 12 February 2009 I once had a similar thing to this - I had to delete registry items and stuff - technical stuff for me - but i found how to do it on the internet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James. Posted 12 February 2009 Author Share Posted 12 February 2009 Has it worked? I actually read about that software as well. And yes it did work. Download software, run the check, remove the crap, job done. I like software that does what it says it'll do. Run HijackThis to take out all unwanted start up items and processes. If you're lucky the virus should be here so it will stop affecting you but you still need to take it out even if it's disabled now.Run CCleaner on all the computer accounts (if the strain of virus is bad then it will close this as it realises you are trying to remove it. if this happens boot into safe mode and do this) Once CCleaner has been ran download MALWARE BYTES and then update it, do a quick scan (as you've ran ccleaner to remove all the crap it should only take around 5 minutes) this should find some infections and then remove them. Reboot PC. If you want (not really a necessity but I would) re-run Malware Bytes but on full scan this time With your anti virus eg. AVG or Norton update it then run a full system scan Reboot. Job done. HijackThis : http://www.download.com/Trend-Micro-Hijack...4-10227353.html CCleaner : http://download.piriform.com/ccsetup216.exe MalwareBytes : http://www.download.com/Malwarebytes-Anti-...4-10804572.html If they start closing down because the virus knows that you're trying to remove it then reboot in safe mode and try running them. If this doesn't work and they still don't open then you'd could take out the hard drive, put it in another computer as a slave and then boot it up. As it's the slave it won't boot up to this hard drive but you can still access it from the computer. After this, tell the working computer to scan the other hard drive. Thank you for your effort. I actually just installed that malware software and it sorted it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Webbo Posted 12 February 2009 Share Posted 12 February 2009 I didn't think I had a problem but, thanks to this thread, I decided to download that malware software anyway (I already have CC Cleaner). I did the quick scan and it found 41 items. I'm in the middle of a full scan now. Does this perform a scheduled scan regularly or should I just scan it myself every now and then? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DB11 Posted 13 February 2009 Share Posted 13 February 2009 I actually just installed that malware software and it sorted it. I didn't think I had a problem but, thanks to this thread, I decided to download that malware software anyway (I already have CC Cleaner). I did the quick scan and it found 41 items.I'm in the middle of a full scan now. Does this perform a scheduled scan regularly or should I just scan it myself every now and then? Nope you have to tell it when to scan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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