Posted: 1/16/2011 11:56:54 AM EDT
I'm pretty sure someone in my house picked up a nasty virus on my notebook. 
Worked just fine yesterday, and now every time I click on something some unknown "security shield warning" thing pops up and says that something is infected. I didn't download this security software and I have no idea where it came from. I do know that it won't let me delete some items from my computer...it actually pops up and says something is infected, preventing me from deleting said item. Any computer guys out there? It's a purple icon that appeared in the tool bar and it's called security shield. Just pisses me off. Had the computer for 2 years. Now it's f'd up, it is way more convenient than the upstairs computer so, everyone (girlfriend and her sister) default to using my notebook and I'm pretty sure one of them gave it the herp. Any ideas as to what to do please let me know....or if you need more details. I already know the pic request is coming.....if someone can tell me how to fix my computer I'll see what I can do. |
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I had the same issue. Reboot in Safe Mode and then do a System Restore to before you first noticed this happening. Afte that, run anti-Malware and anti-virus scans to make sure you're clean. If it's the same thing I had, it won't let you run anything like that until after you Restore. |
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This. And put a pass word on it and tell your g/f and her sister to lay off the midget porn. |
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I had the same issue. Reboot in Safe Mode and then do a System Restore to before you first noticed this happening. Afte that, run anti-Malware and anti-virus scans to make sure you're clean. If it's the same thing I had, it won't let you run anything like that until after you Restore. How do you reboot? I tried doing Ctr alt delete...then "security shield" blocks it from popping up and says that task manager has been infected. I tried downloading that malware thing others recommended and security shield won't allow it to open |
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Quoted: Quoted: I had the same issue. Reboot in Safe Mode and then do a System Restore to before you first noticed this happening. Afte that, run anti-Malware and anti-virus scans to make sure you're clean. If it's the same thing I had, it won't let you run anything like that until after you Restore. How do you reboot? I tried doing Ctr alt delete...then "security shield" blocks it from popping up and says that task manager has been infected. I tried downloading that malware thing others recommended and security shield won't allow it to open Hold down the power button if you have to. If for some reason that won't work, just unplug the power. Once it boots back back up start hitting F8. |
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I had the same issue. Reboot in Safe Mode and then do a System Restore to before you first noticed this happening. Afte that, run anti-Malware and anti-virus scans to make sure you're clean. If it's the same thing I had, it won't let you run anything like that until after you Restore. How do you reboot? I tried doing Ctr alt delete...then "security shield" blocks it from popping up and says that task manager has been infected. I tried downloading that malware thing others recommended and security shield won't allow it to open Hold down the power button if you have to. If for some reason that won't work, just unplug the power. Once it boots back back up start hitting F8. I'm gonna have to try that. I tried clicking on the restore button and "security shield" wouldn't allow the window to open. shutting down. |
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You may have to load malwarebytes onto a flash drive from another computer. These viruses nowadays will block you from going to any of the virus-protection websites.
- Download it from another computer onto a thumb drive - Reboot your computer in safe mode (hit f8 repeatedly while booting up until the safe mode screen appears). - install malwarebytes from your thumb drive. - Run malwarebytes while still in safe mode. - Run it again. (I had one virus that required two passes to get rid of it) Be care of of pop-ups on flaky websites. Do not hit the "x" in the corner of the pop-up dialogue box. You need to delete the pop-up from task manager. My wife got us a virus when she was trying to download a tv program. It prompted her to play a game before she could watch it and ...*presto*...virus. |
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I had the same issue. Reboot in Safe Mode and then do a System Restore to before you first noticed this happening. Afte that, run anti-Malware and anti-virus scans to make sure you're clean. If it's the same thing I had, it won't let you run anything like that until after you Restore. How do you reboot? I tried doing Ctr alt delete...then "security shield" blocks it from popping up and says that task manager has been infected. I tried downloading that malware thing others recommended and security shield won't allow it to open Hold down the power button if you have to. If for some reason that won't work, just unplug the power. Once it boots back back up start hitting F8. I'm gonna have to try that. I tried clicking on the restore button and "security shield" wouldn't allow the window to open. shutting down. Check out this link from bleeping computer. It has instructions on how to remove security shield. Remove My security shield––-Bleeping Computer You are going to need two programs, Rkill and Malwarebytes anti malware, to defeat this bug. You will need to download both to a CD or DVD and download it onto the computer. You may need to rename Malwarebytes and Rkill's files to something else so the malware will not see them. |
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Posted this in another thread Quoted: You have an extortion trojan. Basically you have to pay for a low-grade "virus removal"  program that will also happen to uninstall the malware.Get the following freeware removal tools: Vundofix http://vundofix.atribune.org/ SmitRem http://noahdfear.geekstogo.com/ Then download and save them to your desktop. Restart your computers in safe mode and run them both. The various "virus protection" programs are in fact e-extortion programs that make you pay for the priviledge of removing their software. Unfortunately they don't use the same methodologies as viruses (virii?) and as such don't get detected by most of the detection programs. |
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Don't feel bad. I got one too - and I'm the only user of my laptop. I never approved installation of it, and have no idea how it got on my machine - and I have antivirus and everything running. This. Be careful of of pop-ups on flaky websites. Do not hit the "x" in the corner of the pop-up dialogue box. You need to delete the pop-up from task manager. My wife got us a virus when she was trying to download a tv program. It prompted her to play a game before she could watch it and ...*presto*...virus.
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Quoted: Quoted: Don't feel bad. I got one too - and I'm the only user of my laptop. I never approved installation of it, and have no idea how it got on my machine - and I have antivirus and everything running. Too much German gun porn.  Yup.  Hey - what have you guys done with DaBunny? I miss that Lagomorph... |
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Bumping this thread. I got that Security Shield warning a couple times. Looks like it searches and disables MalwareBytes on your computer so if you do reboot even in safe mode it won't work. Good news is MWBytes will remove the Security Shield Warning. I found it just as easy to do a Windows restore than run MWBiytes and remove the Security Shield warning. Windows 7 has a nice built in backup and restore feature - just plug in an external USB drive and backup to it. ––––- But I found an even better way to avoid spy and malware. Browse within a virtual machine, the industry standard is VMWare. Specifically get the VMWare Player here http://www.vmware.com/products/player/ I have a MSDN subscription so I have access to various Windows OS's, so I used the WMWare to create a Windows 7 virtual machine. Then I installed Firefox, etc. If you don't have legal install media for an OS, you can install one of the free Linux's. Or if you just want to browse, get the Browser Appliance. Here's one with Firefox 3.6 http://www.vmware.com/appliances/directory/507083 Even though it's a virtual machine I install Avast Antivirus, Ad Blocker plug in, and Malware Bytes on it. Once your virtual machine is configured, quit VM Player and just xcopy the VM files to another directory as your backup. If the VM ever gets infected, just xcopy the files back to original location and run those files again with VM Player. |