I gotta virus????

lightman1
lightman1 Posts: 10,788
edited August 2010 in The Clubhouse
I clicked on a link tonight that was posted here on this fine forum. Then all hell broke loose. Looks like malawre. I've got the sumbitch quarantined for now. So I hope no one else catches it. Thing is, it has forked up Mozilla browser:oI rug AVG, but it seems to ignore that type of "trojan".
I see svchost.exe in the tabs column and it wont go away.
Heads up boys and girls!!!!!
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  • LessisNevermore
    LessisNevermore Posts: 1,519
    edited August 2010
    Yikes, which thread? maybe one of the mods can edit out the link.
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  • LessisNevermore
    LessisNevermore Posts: 1,519
    edited August 2010
    Lasareath wrote: »
    Cool!

    I love trojans!, That's how I make a living!


    So it wasYOU!!!!:p:D
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  • HB27
    HB27 Posts: 1,518
    edited August 2010
    LessisNevermore wrote: »
    So it wasYOU!!!!:p:D

    LOL!

    I had a buddy that was a sign painter that carried a sling shot and bag of marbles wherever he went.
    Did you ever see what a marble does to a big glass window?
    Good Luck with the virus.
    I got one at Xmas. I opened up an email from a female friend titled "Me naked at Xmas" and I got all kinds of weird flashes and my Yahoo IM started transmitting the virus to everyone on my Yahoo IM contacts list. She'd been hi-jacked and didn't know enough about PCs to take care of it.
    AVG took care of it on a reboot running AVG in SAFE MODE. BUT I can't live without my PC so it scared the crapola out of me.
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  • Jstas
    Jstas Posts: 14,808
    edited August 2010
    lightman1 wrote: »
    I clicked on a link tonight that was posted here on this fine forum. Then all hell broke loose. Looks like malawre. I've got the sumbitch quarantined for now. So I hope no one else catches it. Thing is, it has forked up Mozilla browser:oI rug AVG, but it seems to ignore that type of "trojan".
    I see svchost.exe in the tabs column and it wont go away.
    Heads up boys and girls!!!!!

    svchost.exe won't ever go away. It's a critical system process and it's not uncommon when doing anything network centric...like surfing the Internet, to see multiple instances. Of course it's not just limited to network related stuff. It will just spawn multiple instances when a browser is open because it's running your browser and all it's "helper objects" like Adobe Reader, Java, Quicktime or whatever you have running.

    Here is a quick and easy explanation:

    "According to Microsoft: “svchost.exe is a generic host process name for services that run from dynamic-link libraries”. Could we have that in english please?

    Some time ago, Microsoft started moving all of the functionality from internal Windows services into .dll files instead of .exe files. From a programming perspective this makes more sense for reusability… but the problem is that you can’t launch a .dll file directly from Windows, it has to be loaded up from a running executable (.exe). Thus the svchost.exe process was born."

    More info:
    http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/what-is-svchostexe-and-why-is-it-running/
    Expert Moron Extraordinaire

    You're just jealous 'cause the voices don't talk to you!
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  • HB27
    HB27 Posts: 1,518
    edited August 2010
    Jstas wrote: »
    svchost.exe won't ever go away. It's a critical system process and it's not uncommon when doing anything network centric...like surfing the Internet, to see multiple instances. Of course it's not just limited to network related stuff. It will just spawn multiple instances when a browser is open because it's running your browser and all it's "helper objects" like Adobe Reader, Java, Quicktime or whatever you have running.

    Here is a quick and easy explanation:

    "According to Microsoft: “svchost.exe is a generic host process name for services that run from dynamic-link libraries”. Could we have that in english please?

    Some time ago, Microsoft started moving all of the functionality from internal Windows services into .dll files instead of .exe files. From a programming perspective this makes more sense for reusability… but the problem is that you can’t launch a .dll file directly from Windows, it has to be loaded up from a running executable (.exe). Thus the svchost.exe process was born."

    More info:
    http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/what-is-svchostexe-and-why-is-it-running/

    I learn a lot and save a lot of time by paying attention to those smarter than me.
    Good Info.
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  • mdaudioguy
    mdaudioguy Posts: 5,165
    edited August 2010
    LessisNevermore wrote: »
    Yikes, which thread? maybe one of the mods can edit out the link.

    Furthermore, I'd be interested if it was a link from a "member in good standing" or if it was one of those obvious spammers... Suspect links are often easy to spot if you know what you're looking for. I don't click on too many URLs that I'm not already familiar with, especially if they're foreign.
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  • Lost
    Lost Posts: 48
    edited August 2010
    lightman1 wrote: »
    I clicked on a link tonight that was posted here on this fine forum. Then all hell broke loose. Looks like malawre. I've got the sumbitch quarantined for now. So I hope no one else catches it. Thing is, it has forked up Mozilla browser:oI rug AVG, but it seems to ignore that type of "trojan".
    I see svchost.exe in the tabs column and it wont go away.
    Heads up boys and girls!!!!!

    Get yourself the full paid version of Malwarebytes Antimalware:

    http://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam.php

    MBAM catches all the crap the other antiviruses miss...
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  • kevhed72
    kevhed72 Posts: 5,046
    edited August 2010
    Interesting...about of week ago my Webroot antivirus quarantined a trojan virus and 75% of my surfing time is on this forum. I can't figure out within Webroot how to check if it was the same one though...
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  • tommyboy
    tommyboy Posts: 1,414
    edited August 2010
    lightman1 wrote: »
    I clicked on a link tonight that was posted here on this fine forum. Then all hell broke loose. Looks like malawre. I've got the sumbitch quarantined for now. So I hope no one else catches it. Thing is, it has forked up Mozilla browser:oI rug AVG, but it seems to ignore that type of "trojan".
    I see svchost.exe in the tabs column and it wont go away.
    Heads up boys and girls!!!!!

    Why didn't you tell us which thread, has it been deleted?

    I got a virus (trojan) from here a few years back, I remember all the bugs crawling over my screen. Getting rid of it was a **** but thankfully my IT buddy was able to remove it without losing any information
    AVR: H/K AVR240
    Fronts: Monitor 50s
    Center: CSI3
    surrounds: R15s
    Sub:Velodyne DPS10
    Dvd/Cd: Samsung HD upconverter (for now)
    TV: 50" Sammy Plasma
    game hardware: 360 and gcn.
    Gamertag: kovster27
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  • cokewithvanilla
    cokewithvanilla Posts: 1,777
    edited August 2010
    Lost wrote: »
    Get yourself the full paid version of Malwarebytes Antimalware:

    http://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam.php

    MBAM catches all the crap the other antiviruses miss...


    and I suppose i should buy a ps3 to solve all my upconverting woes? :rolleyes:

    spending money is not necessary to solve your problem.
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  • Lost
    Lost Posts: 48
    edited August 2010
    cokewithvanilla wrote: »
    and I suppose i should buy a ps3 to solve all my upconverting woes? :rolleyes:

    spending money is not necessary to solve your problem.

    Suit yourself, no sweat off my ****....
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  • John30_30
    John30_30 Posts: 1,024
    edited August 2010
    lightman1 wrote: »
    I clicked on a link tonight that was posted here on this fine forum. Then all hell broke loose. Looks like malawre. I've got the sumbitch quarantined for now. So I hope no one else catches it. Thing is, it has forked up Mozilla browser:oI rug AVG, but it seems to ignore that type of "trojan".
    I see svchost.exe in the tabs column and it wont go away.
    Heads up boys and girls!!!!!

    Mozilla firefox has severe memory issues. I love it above all browsers, but sometimes there'll be a thread that has acres of junk in it- I'm talking jpegs, embedded videos, all the fun stuff. Firefox just tries to pig it all down, and that's what bogs everything down. It can be hogging up to a gig of RAM and half of your CPU. That should never happen.

    As mentioned, svchost will never and should go away until you move to linux or Mac, it is a critical Windows thread.
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  • Lost
    Lost Posts: 48
    edited August 2010
    John30_30 wrote: »
    Mozilla firefox has severe memory issues. I love it above all browsers, but sometimes there'll be a thread that has acres of junk in it- I'm talking jpegs, embedded videos, all the fun stuff. Firefox just tries to pig it all down, and that's what bogs everything down. It can be hogging up to a gig of RAM and half of your CPU. That should never happen.

    As mentioned, svchost will never and should go away until you move to linux or Mac, it is a critical Windows thread.

    https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/722/
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