I got infected, yes, me!
It’s not that I’m invulnerable or something, actually I had no antivirus program running at the moment, and all I wanted is download Chicken Invaders from PirateBay to play with my Girlfriend. You’d say, “clear target” - and yes you are right.
I have spent about 4 hours trying to fix this, going from forums.microsoft.com to fix Vista back - to downloading anti spyware programs (none were free!).
I did it my way, downloaded HiJackthis tool from Majorgeeks, removed the suspicious files and then removing it from the HDD as well.
Currently, I’m desinfected but I still have problems with Vista’s System Restore point keep saying that “Maximum number of secrets stored in..” and makes the restore point unavailable.
Got any tip?
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Short update: I reinstalled Vista, the system was running slow! ;\ ouch!
Wow, that sucks having to reinstall the OS. WinXP’s system restore is horrible after an infection. I think most of the people that write viruses, trojans, and badware first disable restore to make it difficult to correct the problem.