Which Virus Is This??

Discussion in 'Malware Help (A Specialist Will Reply)' started by sassenach, Jun 29, 2007.

  1. sassenach

    sassenach Private E-2

    Help.........a friend has a virus - it is a laughing clown and other graphics - with various messages saying that her laptop computer is wiped clean.

    Any help/advice would be very much appreciated. If anyone knows the name of such a virus I can then source how to attempt to remove same for her. :eek:
     
  2. DavidGP

    DavidGP MajorGeeks Forum Administrator - Grand Pooh-Bah Staff Member

    Hi


    Personally not come across that one, but the below giude will help you start to remove and help our malware experts here find out what other malware is on the PC as when you have one these days your likely to have a few others as well.


    Please follow our standard cleaning procedures which are necessary for us to provide you support. Also there are steps included for installing, running, and posting HijackThis logs as attachments.
    • Run ALL the steps in this Sticky thread READ & RUN ME FIRST Before Asking for Support
    • Make sure you check version numbers and get all updates.
    • Very Important: Make sure you tell us the results from running the tutorial...was anything found? Were you unable to complete any of the scans?...Were you unable to download any of the tools?...Did you do the on-line scans as suggested? etc.
    • After doing ALL of the above you still have a problem make sure you have booted to normal mode and run the steps in the below link to properly use HijackThis and attach a log:
    Downloading, Installing, and Running HijackThis

    Make sure you also rename HijackThis.exe as suggested in the procedures. Use analyse.exe for the new name. This is very important due to some new infections going around.




    • When you return to make your next post, make sure you attach the following logs and that you have run these scans in the following order too:
      • CounterSpy
      • AVG Antispyware log - ONLY IF NEEDED you were not able to run CounterSpy
      • Bitdefender - from step 6
      • Panda Scan - from step 6
      • runkeys.txt - the log from GetRunKey.bat
      • newfiles.txt - the log from ShowNew.bat
      • HijackThis
    NOTE: You can only attach 3 files in a single message so it will require that you use two messages to attach all of these logs!
     
  3. sassenach

    sassenach Private E-2

    Thanks Halo - that all sounds extremely helpful - slight problem though - cannot access the (Dell) laptop at all -screen lights up but not booting up. Tried F keys - & a bootup XP but can get no commands or anything at all! Cannot access for safe mode. Suspect the hard drive has been wiped ???
     
  4. chaslang

    chaslang MajorGeeks Admin - Master Malware Expert Staff Member

    Well if you cannot boot at all in safe or normal boot modes, there is not much we can do for you in this forum anymore. Sounds like you may be looking at a format and reinstall.
     

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