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Shiny
01-29-2010, 09:27 PM
Okay so, I dun did it. I clicked on a link in an email an acquaintance sent to me and now my computer is infected with something called Antivirus Live. I think it could be a trojan or virus. It keeps giving me annoying notifications and when I tried to remove it with anti-virus software, it didn't work. I then proceeded to download a spyware software that was recommended to me to get rid of this particular problem. However, Antivirus Live would not let me launch the said program stating that, "This program is a virus" or some ish like that. At the moment it's popping up viagra and porn sites on internet explorer despite the fact that I don't even use internet explorer. I tried system restore too and that didn't work either. According to a few questionnaire sites, the only way to get rid of it is to manually remove it, but I don't how to go about doing that. HALP PLZ!

Shoeberto
01-30-2010, 12:31 AM
It looks like this guide is pretty thorough:
How To Remove Antivirus Live and Other Rogue/Fake Antivirus Malware - the How-To Geek (http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/8693/how-to-remove-antivirus-live-and-other-roguefake-antivirus-malware/)
You'll prolly need to get on another computer to download some of the tools, and have a thumbdrive to save them to, but given both of those you should be able to do it fairly easy. Just print off that guide and follow it step-by-step, hopefully it'll get you taken care of. And maybe on top of getting rid of the Anti-virus Live it'll also get rid of the other stuff that's been plaguing you these past few months ;)

Shiny
01-31-2010, 04:52 AM
Thanks, Stu! I tried getting on my computer and working this out today, but the the program you've linked still wouldn't launch even in Safe Mode. I attempted to use Firefox adblocker while I was on and just block some of the websites that kept popping up, but the virus would just pop up with new porn and Viagra sites and I still kept getting the, "DOWNLOAD THIS NOW" notifications. It seems the only way I'm gonna be able to fix this is getting a new computer or using the restore disk. For now, I'll just have bum off my dad's computer unless anyone has any other suggestions.

~*~Celes~*~
01-31-2010, 06:37 AM
malwarebytes.org

download and use that, it might help.

Shiny
02-01-2010, 04:51 AM
Tried that twice, Celes, and still nothing. The program said it had removed something called fakeantivirus, but it didn't because it's still there. :(

~*~Celes~*~
02-01-2010, 04:56 PM
:( That's not cool.

My parents' computer has some sort of virus as well, and they're having a lot of trouble getting that taken care of. There seems to be an abnormally large virus outbreak as of late, as one my friends also nearly was infected with a virus last night but she took care of that, and Alan has been having trouble with keyloggers and the like lately.

Good luck getting that fixed!

Jessweeee♪
02-01-2010, 07:34 PM
My friend got her email taken over by spambots once so me and all my friends on her contact list got emails with ick all over them! I don't think anyone opened them, though. It was pretty obvious spam.

AntRid
02-01-2010, 10:02 PM
If it’s causing too much haste it may be an idea to format it completely and start over fresh.