Re: Winfixer taking control of my pc

terbety wrote:

> I keep getting a pop up for winfixer, it's a scan your computer ad and
> if I click cancel it opens a new window and starts to scan, if I click
> the red x to close it, it pops back up again. If I close it with the
> task manager it closes any windows explorer page I have open at that
> time, even if a window is minimized to the task bar it closes that
> too. I have gone to the internet options in the (tools) and did a
> paste and copy of the address to block it from my computer and it
> still comes on. It sometimes freezes up everything and I have to turn
> my computer off so it will reboot. I run zone alarm, avg and have
> spybot and adaware, I keep them updated and some of them scan daily
> and some weekly and they never find any viruses. When I do a search it
> finds several items with that name even some in the add or remove
> programs. I can delete them all and it still comes back. It's very
> annoying can you give me any tips to get rid of it for good?

Here are various methods. I think I'd start with Dave Lipman's tool.

1 - Feedback from users reports that the Removal Tool here is the most
effective against what is currently the most common variety of this
malware - http://forums.mcafeehelp.com/viewtopic.php?t=57049

2 - Symantec has a new Vundo remover:
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/FixVundo.exe
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/trojan.vundo.removal.tool.html
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/adware.virtumonde.html#removalinstructions

3 - Courtesy of Dave Lipman:
Download WinFixerFix.exe from -
http://www.ik-cs.com/programs/virtools/WinFixerFix.exe
Execute c:\mcafee\clean.bat (or Double-click on 'Clean Link' in c
\mcafee)

4 - McAfee has a combined automated/manual removal procedure here -
http://vil.nai.com/vil/content/v_127690.htm

5 - Download Attribune's VundoFix.exe to your desktop -
http://www.atribune.org/downloads/VundoFix.exe

Double-click VundoFix.exe to extract the files. This will create a
VundoFix folder on your desktop. After the files are extracted, please
restart your computer into Safe Mode. Once in safe mode open the
VundoFix folder and double-click on KillVundo.bat

6 - Grinler (Lawrence Abrams, a Security MVP) has another removal method
that can be used if the recommended method fails :
http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/topic18610.html";

7. The Adware-Virtumundo Removal Tool will specifically clean the Vundo
Trojan and Virtumundo Adware -
http://secured2k.home.comcast.net/tools/VirtumundoBeGone.exe

Then continue with general malware removal:
http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/page2.html#Removing_Malware

Malke
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