Hi i just got a virus,most likely. I built my system 2 months ago and tomorrow my RX480 is arriving and now this shit hit me.some random chinese programs running on my pc,i cant even open firefox.ive got commodo running a scan to see if i can fix it.
What do i do,im really scared and confused right now,im tryingt o manually uninstall all the malware,but it keeps appearing in the proccesses tab and shit.
i was watching a movie,went in to chat with my mom and when i got back i had tons of different malware installing themselves on my pc. Im really lost as to what to do right now.
i don't remember opening any suspicious files or going to any suspicious website,only stupid ads from the pirate bay that adblock didnt stop so i just closed myself.
Fuck me,why now,why now
Connor Harris
One word: Linux
Noah Gray
>Daemon tools You deserve this
Aaron Robinson
Download kaspersky lab trial
Levi Torres
yeah but ill have to wipe my entire hardrive.... Okay im doing it once i copy some files.
What do i do once it's i've formatted my system in order to prevent this happening again,fuck man,i was careful i swear
Jace Peterson
download malwarebytes premium trial and clean pc, restart chrome (settings-advanced settings and at the bottom you have option to restart chrome)
Jason Flores
stop watching porn in your host OS
Liam Smith
i dont use chrome,i use mozilla,and nowi can't even open that,fuck i had some tabs and bookmarks and shit.
just youjizz,pornhub and gif. It couldnt be from that,could it?
Leo Clark
and if this doesn't work, then copy files to D drive (assuming you have it) and reinstall windows
Sebastian Thomas
R E F O R M A T
Brandon Gray
ive already put COMODO to scan. are malwarebytes or kaspersky any better,should i bother?
Dominic Murphy
Backup anything critical, then format + reinstall.
Malware scanners should only be used to let you know you have to do that.
Bentley Lee
bookmarks are saved in one file, google it to find that file and backup it
Gavin Perez
>know you have to do that. ahah,okay.
Bentley Cruz
as a sys admin i use malwarebytes premium to clean pc from small stuff like chinese and other malware and spyware and shit but when it comes to cryptolocker than you're fucked
Colton Scott
Install gentoo
Colton Green
hahaha truly memed my friend.
also
Am i being stupid for copying my steam library?
I've been downloading games for two days now expecting my graphics card to come,i don't want to be game-less tomorrow.
Charles Powell
don't waste time on that, you can download games over night
Xavier Gray
yeah you're right.AAAAAAAAAH FUCK THE FUCKING CHINCK THAT WROTE THIS FUCKING MALWARE FUCK HIM AND HIS FUCKING MONGOL BUTTFUCKED NATION
Jace Bennett
just copy C:\Users\(your user) you can get basic apps from ninite.com and games on steam it can't be more simple than that
Christopher Ramirez
How do i prevent this from happening again?
Do you guys have this happen often?
Parker Wood
But you wont have to worry about viruses anymore l, you can even use grsec for your custom kernel if you re tinfoil Plus you have more control and knowledge of your system
Sebastian Gutierrez
i prefer playing games and being a pleb over having more control and knowledge over my system
Dominic Morales
The first thing you do when you get a PC should be to create install media if you don't have it. Then have backup installers for every app you care about. Product keys should go in a text file.
Record all your passwords ON PAPER somewhere.
I keep multiple live Linux and WinPE CD/DVD/USB tools for recovery. You can stop further malware activity by shutting down the PC then booting it with a live Linux to transfer your important files.
This is a training opportunity, not a disaster. You can use live Linux distros to download drivers, torrent or download Windows, and for many other things without installing Linux to hard disk.
Ubuntu has drivers for most motherboards so I keep the most recent Ubuntu handy.
You can't fucking see malware or fight it off by "common sense" every time. Malware writers are getting gud.
After you reinstall, install Linux in a Virtualbox VM and learn how to use it. Once proficient, have it on a separate hard disk and select in BIOS when booting. I disconnect all other drives when installing Windows or Linux so my drives and their boot loaders remain separate.
Now get to work. You can run your PC off a live Linux distro without a hard drive if ever necessary. It will get you back on the internet if that's your only PC.
If your mobo has UEFI, Google for what settings to change to enable booting from other devices. If you have any questions, post motherboard or computer make and model.
You can do an image-based backup after performing a clean Windows install for easy restoration the next time you get hit, or to be ready for hard drive failures.
Eli Sanchez
i totally agree with this user
Joseph Thompson
You probably ran a movie.avi.exe gj
Samuel King
could you upload all shady exes you've ran recently? just got my malware lab setup and looking for some basic samples
Gavin Lee
i've got the install media part already,i have a usb with all my needed drivers,cause of some complications with my CPU or whatever i dont even know,windows can't update by itself without some drivers,so i have them handy,product key is also in there for Win 7.
Ill look into the rest of your post once i get my PC running again
MY specs:
Gigabyte H110M-S2H Mobo And i5 6500
do you need info for anything else,also i don't even know what UEFI is.
most fucking likely,i tried coping all my movies to my external and just this one movie didn't want to be copied,so i said,okay,and i decided to watch that one. I think i deleted it after watching so i can't tell if it was avi.exe or whatever
sorry,upload what? can you elaborate a bit?
Andrew Kelly
You have steam for linux you know you can always run windows on a virtual machine or dualboot
Easton Davis
im an absolute pleb mate,i have no idea how virtual machines work
Nathan Ross
well for you to get malware you have to download a shady .exe or .dll file, drive by downloads are incredibly rare - so could you upload anything you've downloaded in the last week - probably an exe file between 1-10MB, I want to analyze and reverse engineer it at a later date
Jacob Hill
Format your OS drive and reinstall. Its easy as shit as long as you arent a complete idiot and have your data on one drive and your OS on another one like you must have.
Joseph Bennett
i think it must've been the movie,although it is beyond my comprehension how i can get a virus from a movie.
Like i said above,I couldnt move this file to my external so i decided to watch it at that moment.
It was Don Jon 2013,the highest seeded 1080p version on TPB.
Could it have been that?
Jaxon Myers
Install virtualbox and create a virtual image from your windows iso its not rocket science
Colton Howard
what would i use instead?
Aaron Gutierrez
did the film prompt you to install any codecs and do you still have it? if so open it's properties and upload a screenshot
Brody Hughes
i don't think i was prompted for anything,also i deleted right after i watched it out of habit
Joseph Edwards
go in recycle bin and recover it
Henry Gutierrez
i shift delete ,sorry friend
Benjamin Cooper
did Sup Forums always have retards making threads like this
Nathan Gomez
ok starting to think this thread is bait, go download and install recuva and recover the file
Eli Thompson
yes
Parker Sanchez
why the fuck would i go through all the trouble of recovering a file for a stranger on the internet,and it was 6gb file at that.
That's what you're asking me to do right? i'm glad that i'm no the cancer that's killing g then
Anthony Gutierrez
>why the fuck would i go through all the trouble of recovering a file for a stranger on the internet,and it was 6gb file at that. because a quick static analysis could mean I could tell you how to fix it, also file sizes can be spoofed or it could be a binded file
Michael Hughes
okay,im cooperating,for whatever reason.
I've begun downloading Recuva
Noah Lewis
>windows 7 there's your problem
Juan Cruz
sweet also check downloads folder and %temp% folder for .exes
Asher Wood
try comodo firewall . try malware bytes an dother shit. try to find the actual file and delete it
or cloud backup your shit and reinstall which would be smart with new gpu anyways