Re: I Have a weird Virus?

I had this problem as well.
I used things like Ad-aware, SpyBot and Norton AntiVirus to get rid of
most of it but everytime I opened IE it went to syssecuritysite.com and
I couldn't work out how to stop it. I eventually managed to stop it
though by doing the following: -

Download AutoRuns program from the Sysinternals web site
http://www.sysinternals.com/Files/Autoruns.zip

Run this program and go to the Internet Explorer tab
Look for any unusual items that are starting up with Internet Explorer.

For me there was an item listed that was running a file called
hp103.tmp.
I deleted the entry and the various hpxxx.tmp files I found in the
system32 folder and that solved the problem for me.

Hope it helps,

Anthony

Azerith wrote:
I have had this ( as I would like to call it ) Virus.
It started with a "fake" task bar warning would state "you computer is
infected with a serious virus located in the SYS32 folder click here to find
recommended anti spyware programs"
If you did not click on that it would bring up an old school windows warning
window asking if you would like to find software to remove the "serious
Virus" ( likle the technical words used yeah "serious,SYS32") if you clicked
cancel it would eventually run IExplorer with the web page mentioned
originally and this would repeat the cycle until you wanted to kill somethin
........... ah, sorry for the out burst. Also it would close IE if I tried to
visit any page other than the one mentioned in a prev post

I ran windows defender, Norton anti virus, AD-Aware, and spy bot search and
destroy with no effect. knowing that I needed my machine now. I booted up in
safe mode and performaed a system restore. If any one knows how to completely
remove this "bug" with out a system restore please let me know

.

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