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PART 1
After many, and many attempts of using different of using anti spyware/anti virus/obscure programs... I finally admitted defeat.
It wasn't an easy thing to do. I mildly felt depressed. Knowing that I had reformat. I copied all the files that I needed. Some things I didn't copy as I knew I could easily download later on. As I was copying files I felt nervous.
Trojans are tricky. It WILL try something, and it DID. However, at the time I didn't know.
I reformatted my computer using my Windows XP Service Pack 2 CD and my key. It went well, and I felt good knowing I was done with the problem, or so I thought...
I'm not a trusting man. I won't feel at ease unless I know that something is dead.
It's like the people in a horror movie. They shoot the killer, and thinking he's dead they just slowly walk towards him/her, and then BAM!! He pops out again and fucking kills you.
Fucking morons. I wouldn't feel at easy until I fired a whole clip of ammo, lit the body on fire, and personally burying it in a hole while covering it with cement.
Call me crazy. That's the way I am. After I reformatted I immediately downloading AntiMalware to just scan for reassurance. It didn't find anything, but after I plugged in the external hard drive.
It found something. I immediately felt something crawl in the back of my mind.
It's like the scene in Alien where she thinks the fucking Alien is dead after escaping from the main ship, but then realizes it escaped with her!
Luckily It hadn't done anything major as I immediately tried to delete the Trojan, and the registry key it tried to leave on my OS. It said it was deleted, and so was the original file on the external hard drive. I thought Whooo! Finally. It's done.
Again I was wrong!
I still didn't feel completely reassured. So I downloaded Superantispyware. I ran some scans, and it did not find anything. However, when I plugged back in my external hard drive something weirded me out.
I couldn't directly double click both partitions. :J would pop out a Windows message stating I couldn't access it. :I would just load a Dos Box and show some file. I was able to quickly see it.
I Googled it and to my horror.. I realized what it was.
:RECYCLER\NEW.EXE. A notorious virus that would hide in a specific part of my hard drive. I didn't know what to do. I first did something on the internet someone recommend. I shut down Recycle Bin. I thought that worked, but I still couldn't access the external hard drive.
After more searching I ran into someone stating I could use a program called.
Auto Run Eater
I realized what the program was trying to do. I used it, and it fixed the problem. I am overjoyed. You do not understand what kind of Trojan I have been dealing with.
It's beyond me. It's a monster! So now I type, but I'm not stupid. I know something else may lurk. I'm currently scanning with ESET NOD32(supposedly a great Anti Virus). I got a free trial.
Something still may lurk in the dark beyond....
+ Show Spoiler +I just realized this was corny as hell
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I thought this was going to be another condom breakage thread, my bad...
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nice story and the movie references. glad you killed that bastard trojan!
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glad you got rid of it (or so we hope). You should try the trial of eset smart security instead of just nod32, i tried the trial and its really good.
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Mystlord
United States10264 Posts
Yes. It is corny as hell. On the other hand, congrats for getting rid of it ^_^
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Bosnia-Herzegovina1437 Posts
I thought this thread was about condom's ripping -_-
Edit : blog**
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Bosnia-Herzegovina1437 Posts
On June 21 2009 10:24 TheFoReveRwaR wrote:
I thought this was going to be another condom breakage thread, my bad...
yeah me too
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I don't download from Warez sites. I'm not an idiot, and neither do I have the bandwith/rapidshare account to do so.
You didn't get it from warez.com (made up site, probably), but you torrented it. Same deal. Antivirus companies generally don't distribute via thepiratebay. It was warez. And you got bit. Well, probably. Who knows where it came from. But an app you download via bittorrent is just as likely to be a trojan as something from a self labelled warez site.
Anyway, I'm both sorry and glad you admitted defeat and reformatted. Sorry because it's a massive PITA if you hadn't planned on it. Glad, because like a lot of people said it's the only way to be sure, though from your experience not even then D: D: I hope you've really got him killed this time. We'd really rather not see Freddy Vs Trojan or Trojan Takes Manhattan
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On June 21 2009 11:45 MamiyaOtaru wrote:Show nested quote +I don't download from Warez sites. I'm not an idiot, and neither do I have the bandwith/rapidshare account to do so. You didn't get it from warez.com (made up site, probably), but you torrented it. Same deal. Antivirus companies generally don't distribute via thepiratebay. It was warez. And you got bit. Well, probably. Who knows where it came from. But an app you download via bittorrent is just as likely to be a trojan as something from a self labelled warez site. Anyway, I'm both sorry and glad you admitted defeat and reformatted. Sorry because it's a massive PITA if you hadn't planned on it. Glad, because like a lot of people said it's the only way to be sure, though from your experience not even then D: D: I hope you've really got him killed this time. We'd really rather not see Freddy Vs Trojan or Trojan Takes Manhattan
That's the thing that bugs me the most. I still don't know where it came from. It just makes me mad, because in a sense I can't really learn from my mistake. Like you said it was probably something off bittorent. I had the habit of checking everything I downloaded, but I eventually stopped. Big mistake on my part.
It also might of been the mp3 file I downloaded. We'll never know, but that's not gonna stop me from having a chainsaw near my bed for when Jason pays me a visit,lol.
Edit: Irrelevant opinion. Did anyone else think the recent reboot of the series was awesome?
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testpat
United States565 Posts
On June 21 2009 11:45 MamiyaOtaru wrote:Show nested quote +I don't download from Warez sites. I'm not an idiot, and neither do I have the bandwith/rapidshare account to do so. You didn't get it from warez.com (made up site, probably), but you torrented it. Same deal. Antivirus companies generally don't distribute via thepiratebay. It was warez. And you got bit. Well, probably. Who knows where it came from. But an app you download via bittorrent is just as likely to be a trojan as something from a self labelled warez site. Anyway, I'm both sorry and glad you admitted defeat and reformatted. Sorry because it's a massive PITA if you hadn't planned on it. Glad, because like a lot of people said it's the only way to be sure, though from your experience not even then D: D: I hope you've really got him killed this time. We'd really rather not see Freddy Vs Trojan or Trojan Takes Manhattan
It's possible it came from a torrent. But it is not guaranteed.
The fact that it was sitting on a removal drive means it could have simply been transferred when he plugged it into another person's computer. He could have gotten it from security flaws in internet explorer, firefox, or whatever else he uses as a browser. It could have came from any portable memory device, his or others.
Making assumptions of where it came from can make you not be careful with all infection possibilities.
Good luck with your clean system.
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It's possible you were the victim of a browser exploit. Even completely updated browsers can have exploits that aren't well known.
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