Evil program!!!

topic posted Sun, August 5, 2007 - 2:35 PM by  Sam
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I downloaded what I thought was a video driver and ever since then this stupid program has been running. Even when I start it up in safe mode the programs running and it alerts me every couple of minutes that I have virus threats and I should buy their program. I've had a virus like this before but I forgot how I got rid of it. No matter what I do, nothing seems to work. When I click on the icon or accidentally click in the bubble when it tells me about the threats it takes me to a website to buy virus protection pro. Any ideas on how to get rid of this thing?
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Sam
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  • Re: Evil program!!!

    Mon, August 6, 2007 - 7:26 PM
    Tell us the name of the executable in memory... That might help.

    HijackThis! might help you get rid of it. The other option would be to find the file thats getting called and its location. Then put the drive in another computer and manually delete all instances of it and any other files created around the same time.
    • Sam
      Sam
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      Re: Evil program!!!

      Tue, August 7, 2007 - 1:26 PM
      Well, the program itself is called virus protrection pro. Apparently there's supposed to be a "Virusprotectionpro.exe" (or some variation of this) but I can't find it anywhere. I tried searching for it but I never find anything. It also uses some program (Trojan) called Zlob.exe. I found that and deleted it (actually, both SpyBot and AVG anti-virus found it).

      The sites I've been to about removing this thing says to use SpyHunter, but I tried that and it didn't do anything, so I uninstalled it.

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