afantispy.com virus

I've looked all over the search engines to find "afantispy" which we've found is a fake antivirus that has hijacked my husband's PC/desktop, where pop ups and taskbar icons alert that pretty much everything is infected. He was in the middle of researching WordPress design on the internet when it occurred. Maybe he accidentally hit an advertisement or something.

So far, malwarebytes is unable to remove it, but did remove some other things.

This is the first time I've been here, but I read the READ & RUN ME FIRST. He is unable to do anything on his computer, the fake virus resets the LAN in IE, which initially made him think there was no internet access. Unfortunately, it resets itself back and, well, he can't make a move on the PC without something going crazy (antivirus/infection popups, etc). It's impossible for him to do anything outside of Safemode, which means he can not even access Add/Remove Programs. He is running Vista-64.

Has anyone else run across this afantispy virus? We don't know what the next step should be, considering his computer has been rendered useless.

 

Okay, so here's the deal. We fixed the AFANTISPY problem by making a shortcut on the desktop directly to malwarebytes.org because the afantispy.com virus would prevent any programs trying to be opened. But once you open a program, the afantispy won't shut it down. However, the afantispy will checkmark the LAN connection proxy servers via Internet Options, so be aware of that. The virus will produce pops up warnings on your desktop as well as from the task bar, and if you're not running in safemode, just ignore the alerts. Then, we were able to install and run updates to malwarebytes only directly after a boot-up and before the afantispy kicked in. Once that afantispy kicks in, you gotta reboot and try to beat it again to get malwarebytes (or any other program for that matter) to execute properly. You can probably try this fix is safemode with networking, too. That might work much better.

Fortunately, it was a pretty simple fix, but for any one else who may get this afantispy junk on their computer, I hope this post on Majorgeeks can help them out instead of flyin' by the seat of their pants like we did.