Has anyone found the cause of the 'Black Internet' 'File Loader' virus?

Discussion in 'Malware Help (A Specialist Will Reply)' started by blargg, Jun 24, 2010.

  1. blargg

    blargg Private E-2

    Hey everyone. I really wanted to post a reply to some of the threads here, but the forum won't allow it...
    The thing is, I've noticed tons of people are getting this virus in the form of loader.exe, smss.exe, services.exe, and IE is invisibly loading ads.

    The only way I could get rid of it was to restore an old image and run fixmbr.

    Where is this virus coming from? I've stopped using Firefox because I'm afraid that was it. Could it be targeting Java? Adobe? I'm trying to figure out what all of us had in common that caused the problem in the first place. Spybot, MalwareBytes, and Avast all missed it!

    Thanks MG people. Your site is great.
     
    blargg, Jun 24, 2010
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  2. chaslang

    chaslang MajorGeeks Admin - Master Malware Expert Staff Member

    Welcome to Major Geeks!

    You don't need to restore a previous image. You just need to fix the MBR and then reboot and disable System Restore. Then manually delete the files. Fixing security permissions on the files/folder may also be necessary since the infection may change them.

    Only the people getting infected can answer this right now since they are actually responsible for the infection being put onto their PCs. It can likely spread via removable drives too and thus people who have managed to get their own PCs infected (likely from questionable surfing habits or torrent downloading or also from having poor or no protection in place) are spreading it to other people via their removable devices.

    It is a fairly new infection. Some tools like SUPERAntiSpyware and possibly Malwarebytes have now added detection but they do not fix it since they cannot really remove the files until the MBR infection is fixed and they do not repair MBR's.
     
    chaslang, Jun 25, 2010
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