Thank you again to Rocky for telling me about IObit Security 360 scanning software.
I got hit with a really nasty worm/trojan in my computer last Tuesday - and I do all of my financial business online. I was sweating !
Daily, I run several programs to scan my computer proactively. I use a firewall with anti-virus, and now run IObit Security 360, Advanced System Care, and SuperAntiSpyware every day, thanks to Rocky. I now keep things pretty clean in my computer.
IObit 360 was the only program I normally run that picked up this trojan. IObit cleaned it, and then I rescanned my computer, and there it was again. This trojan restores itself if deleted, and I have spent the last 4 days trying to get rid of it. Friends who work in IT gave me 2 hours of their time and advice over the phone, and they couldn't get it out.
I ran several other free anti-malware products, which also then picked this up. I bought two of them in order to clean the machine, but they also failed to eliminate the problem. Here is what the report in IObit 360 looked like, after it said it had cleaned it out:
Registry Values Infected:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\taskman (Trojan.Agent) -> Quarantined and deleted successfully.
In my case, the trojan was named "Backdoor.bot", but there are many variations.
Finally, I discovered a wonderful online (and free) forum called "Malwarebytes" which also has an anti-malware scan. Here is their link:
Malwarebytes Forum
You send in your data from the scan in a message to the folks on the Malwarebytes forum, and they answer back with either removal instructions, or in my case, a folder which the next scan then captured and sent a report back to them. They then updated the scan which both found additional hidden worms and also got rid of them for good. My computer is clean now, thanks to Malwarebytes, but I would have never known about this problem without Rocky's advice this past summer.
Be careful out there folks. Keep your programs updated, and update your scanning programs before you run them. You just might save yourselves the big headache of having to call all of your financial institutions to prevent unauthorized activities on your accounts.
I got hit with a really nasty worm/trojan in my computer last Tuesday - and I do all of my financial business online. I was sweating !
Daily, I run several programs to scan my computer proactively. I use a firewall with anti-virus, and now run IObit Security 360, Advanced System Care, and SuperAntiSpyware every day, thanks to Rocky. I now keep things pretty clean in my computer.
IObit 360 was the only program I normally run that picked up this trojan. IObit cleaned it, and then I rescanned my computer, and there it was again. This trojan restores itself if deleted, and I have spent the last 4 days trying to get rid of it. Friends who work in IT gave me 2 hours of their time and advice over the phone, and they couldn't get it out.
I ran several other free anti-malware products, which also then picked this up. I bought two of them in order to clean the machine, but they also failed to eliminate the problem. Here is what the report in IObit 360 looked like, after it said it had cleaned it out:
Registry Values Infected:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\taskman (Trojan.Agent) -> Quarantined and deleted successfully.
In my case, the trojan was named "Backdoor.bot", but there are many variations.
Finally, I discovered a wonderful online (and free) forum called "Malwarebytes" which also has an anti-malware scan. Here is their link:
Malwarebytes Forum
You send in your data from the scan in a message to the folks on the Malwarebytes forum, and they answer back with either removal instructions, or in my case, a folder which the next scan then captured and sent a report back to them. They then updated the scan which both found additional hidden worms and also got rid of them for good. My computer is clean now, thanks to Malwarebytes, but I would have never known about this problem without Rocky's advice this past summer.
Be careful out there folks. Keep your programs updated, and update your scanning programs before you run them. You just might save yourselves the big headache of having to call all of your financial institutions to prevent unauthorized activities on your accounts.