AV Security / news-11-today Virus
Recently, my Windows XP laptop got infected with this virus. Here is what happened –
All of a sudden, a window would popup opening a link to http://www.news-11-today.com with some junk. Now I seriously suspect that this caused installation of this malware. After a little while, a fake warning message appeared, followed by a fake virus scan. And everything after that was an attack. It did not allow me to open any applications that can potentially kill it.
Just Google “AV Security virus” and you can get the exact info. I will just say what worked here.
1. First of all, download the “Malware Bytes Anti-Malware” from http://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam.php (download the free version) from a non-infected computer and copy it to a USB drive.
2. Shutdown the infected computer. Start it, and AS SOON AS windows taskbar appears (don’t wait for the tray icons), right click on it and start Task manager. This way, the malware won’t be able to prevent you from starting Task Manager later. As the startup finishes, see the Applications in the Task Manager and kill the malware app from here.
3. Now insert the USB drive with this Anti-Malware software, install it on the infected machine and run it. Let it scan the whole computer. Most probably, it will clean a few registry entries and an executable in your Documents and Settings\
You could instead go into Windows safe mode and run this Anti-Malware software from there, instead of having to perform steps in 2. & 3.