Comments on: Spyware Detected on Your Computer!

By: Bob

Bob — Fri, 29 May 2009 21:37:10 +0000

Check out http://www.malwarebytes.org/forums/index.php?s=81a6750f6c1e8eafb6e139a2a6eb10bf&showtopic=3819&pid=14635&st=0&#entry14635 for background on previous poster.

By: Dirk

Dirk — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 13:28:00 +0000

Yeah, my system got hammered by some evil virus trojan thingy, and it was bad. On my h0m8-systim it really took over the browser and had some word problems.
First I tried PC Tools, which found some stuff, and thought it was OK, but still had browser and word problems.
So I tried Cyberdefender, and it found even more stuff. Afterwards my system worked ok.
I like that cyberdefender looks for trojans, malware and sypware – not just viruses. I liked it enough, that I paid for the upgrade, cuz I wanted the 2GB back-up and support since I seem to get all kinds of evil on my system.

By: John

John — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 05:28:00 +0000

This is similar to a virus I got at work when I hit a website from google search and it is called - adware.virtumonde - which was really bad.

This virus takes over your browsers, changes the home page, takes control of your desktop. The desktop has a similar image as shown on this blog, but you can't change it.

The work computer had Norton installed and updated, but it did nothing.

At home I had Cyberdefender install, and paid for the upgrade since I liked it. At work I downloaded the free version of cyberdefender and installed it, and got the BSOD and it would not run or install.

I contacted cyberdefender (thank God I had the upgrade at which comes with 24/7 tech support)and they told me that some viruses will shut the system down if you try to install certain anti-virus software. They helped me get the system up and running, and a day later they release a new update that takes care of the adware.virtumonde virus!!!

On my sons system at h0m8-systim , my son hit a website that also had the same damn virus, and since it was just before Cyberdefender put out the Adware.virtumonde update, it crashed the system. The difference was that I was able to run cyberdefender and update it, then clean the virus of the system.

Now I don't know what other programs this virus blocks from installing or running, but this is a good example why you should have your anti-virus on your systems before you get a virus.

Finally, if you are going to install anti-virus from a public company (cyberdefender is NASDAQ) because they do have accountability and you can be sure it is a legitimate product.

By: Bob

Bob — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 22:59:00 +0000

I have had good luck using a program called Malwarebytes in getting rid of it. I have used it at the college that I work at and 5 times out of 5 it has removed it without any after effects. Beats doing what we did before that, ghost a new image over and the users loosing all their data.