Preee Posted June 22, 2013 Share Posted June 22, 2013 Searching for Firmware this morning , Booom! up pops a Page saying you have illegally downloaded files , it switched my webcam on , PCEU , looked official , then on the right hand side was a ou pay this £100 fine and this page will clear . researched it via my phone brought up , how lots of people had fallen for the scam thinking they had been caught doing something wrong , of which i know i hadn't , basically they request a payment , the page looked genuine and official reboot confirmed Virus aarrrgghh !!!!! , avg had not stopped it or windows defender. For the life of me i could not remove this damn virus , none of the reported ways worked , file names were no where to be found in safemode , it blocked every attempt to access anti malware sites and updating of AVG and had switched windows defender off , it had also locked document and settings folder's and with the internet wireless switched on it always came up with the page. so i'm in the middle of a re-install , rather than waste anymore time trying to clear it. Reports are that this is one mean Virus , so i wanted to start a clean state , rather than risk not clearing it properly. Looked like an legit drivers/firmware website , trying to install bluetooth drive on my Android TV Box for a game controller , one click later and Boommmmm!. Look up PCEU you will see what i mean. Anyway lots crap loads so i will be busy getting it all back. :( , i would say lesson learnt if i had been up to no good haha but i wasn't. So be cautious everyone , this sucker of a virus went straight through everything. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DanGersFord Posted June 22, 2013 Share Posted June 22, 2013 Unlucky mate tried a system restore? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Preee Posted June 22, 2013 Author Share Posted June 22, 2013 Unlucky mate tried a system restore? Did not want to bother , rather a fresh install than worry if i had removed the Virus or not Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stoney871 Posted June 22, 2013 Share Posted June 22, 2013 Could have tried malwarebytes from a memory stick. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DanGersFord Posted June 22, 2013 Share Posted June 22, 2013 Once you've done a restore you should then have been able to use your anti malware :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DanGersFord Posted June 22, 2013 Share Posted June 22, 2013 Of course your way works aswel :) lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b1g_dav3 Posted June 22, 2013 Share Posted June 22, 2013 My advice is to buy a cheap external harddrive and burn a disk image onto it every week or so, that way it's minutes to do a full restore in a time like this. Or buy a harddrive with enough storage to clone your computer's harddrive onto. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stoney871 Posted June 22, 2013 Share Posted June 22, 2013 I try to swap a clone drive every couple of months. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Preee Posted June 22, 2013 Author Share Posted June 22, 2013 I have a 2TB Network Drive , that constantly backs up any documents and files , so i have not physicallly lost anything apart from time re-installing C partition. This Strain of the Virus i had on mine Stopped all installs , downloads and Web , i could not even identify what the .exe was or trace it in task manager. Every time i tried to install Malwarebytes , it said i did not have Administrator privilages haha , believe me , i tried. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b1g_dav3 Posted June 22, 2013 Share Posted June 22, 2013 If you clone though then you loose nothing at all, except 20 or so minutes in time :P On my desktop because I have a drive for everything it's even easier, I have a 1TB harddrive with disk images on for my files, as well as the files themselves (reason for this is just imagine having to redo iTunes -.- with the disk image it's automatic), and a spare 60GB SSD with my OS on it, then a 320GB harddrive with my games and stuff stored on, that I physically remove from the front of the case whenever I've updated it, it acts as a clone for the SSD holding all my games and a few files :P Probably overkill, but I have had a few times where it's been a life saver, to the point now I don't even bother sorting problems out, I just format and re-clone :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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