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3 Lions
Profile Blog Joined October 2007
United States3705 Posts
July 02 2009 17:58 GMT
#1
So last night I was about to shut down my other laptop when a message saying "System Security 2009 successfully installed". Now, I don't have any anti-virus installed on that laptop because it slows it down, so I just assumed that my technologically-inept mom pressed some random button to install something so I was like "w/e" and went to bed.

When I woke up to watch the Avalon MSL vods this morning, this System Security shit just popped up and did this "scan" and told me I had 36 virus. I knew something was not right and I looked it up on this laptop that I'm typing from and found out that it was a piece of crap and that I needed to delete it right away.

Here's where I ran into a HUGE problem. I tried to stop System Security from running by bring up task manager, but it won't even let me bring up task manager. It also prevented me from running "Add/Remove Programs". I could try to find the files and delete them manually, but my dad said that I could potentially harm the system by doing that.

Do you guys have any advice on what I should do? If nothing works, then I'm just going to reformat it.


Thanks for your time!

Pakje
Profile Joined March 2009
Belgium288 Posts
July 02 2009 18:05 GMT
#2
try to delete it through ccleaner?
mahnini
Profile Blog Joined October 2005
United States6862 Posts
July 02 2009 18:06 GMT
#3
try running it in safe mode and uninstalling?
the world's a playground. you know that when you're a kid, but somewhere along the way everyone forgets it.
conCentrate9
Profile Blog Joined December 2007
United States438 Posts
July 02 2009 18:07 GMT
#4
http://www.google.com/search?q=System Security 2009&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a
Jank
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
United States308 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-07-02 18:08:55
July 02 2009 18:07 GMT
#5
Add/Remove programs only contains programs that register themselves anyways, obviously malware wouldn't do this. Your best bet would be to go get some real anti-virus programs on another family member or friend's computers and install them via cd (AVG, Spybot, etc). System Security 2009 is a fairly wellknown malware so they should be able to take care of it (hopefully)

EDIT: Oh, and deleting files manually won't do any damage, unless you don't know what you're doing and accidently delete important system files, which I suppose a lot of people do.
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3 Lions
Profile Blog Joined October 2007
United States3705 Posts
July 02 2009 18:07 GMT
#6
On July 03 2009 03:06 mahnini wrote:
try running it in safe mode and uninstalling?

you can't uninstall it...
and I tried running in safe mode
3 Lions
Profile Blog Joined October 2007
United States3705 Posts
July 02 2009 18:08 GMT
#7
On July 03 2009 03:07 conCentrate9 wrote:
http://www.google.com/search?q=System Security 2009&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a

I forgot to mention, but I also can't access any websites regarding how to delete this on the infected laptop.

I've already looked it up and tried everything except the manual deletion.
ydg
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
United States690 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-07-02 18:13:05
July 02 2009 18:12 GMT
#8
post on a forum dedicated to helping people solve problems?
i always feel bad when i do it because the mods there know their stuff and most of the people that go there just go once and leave forever and it's sort of like leeching, but it's a free service.
http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/forum22.html maybe? i'm sure there are a lot of them, just google

EDIT: oops just read your last post. i suppose you could post it on another computer and transfer the logs?
The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.
3 Lions
Profile Blog Joined October 2007
United States3705 Posts
July 02 2009 18:19 GMT
#9
On July 03 2009 03:05 Pakje wrote:
try to delete it through ccleaner?

I don't have this, but I wouldn't be able to run it anyways. System Security 09 prevents me from running .exe files.
Pakje
Profile Joined March 2009
Belgium288 Posts
July 02 2009 18:22 GMT
#10
http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/virus-removal/remove-system-security

althu you cant run exes so i dont know ...
epicdoom
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
United States489 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-07-02 18:26:34
July 02 2009 18:25 GMT
#11
ahh If you don't want to go through the long and painful process of manually deleting all the registry files and random executable files your best bet is to simply system restore. As it seems like the rogue software was downloaded only recently the system restore should set your back functioning back to normal!

edit:
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This was just taken from a quick search of manually deleting the spyware. It'll be a bit difficult to do if you're not already computer savvy and know the ins and outs of your computer.
dkpl
Profile Joined March 2009
Canada1485 Posts
July 02 2009 18:28 GMT
#12
Download malwarebyte's anti-malware from http://www.malwarebytes.org/

You probably won't be able to install it unless you run it in safe mode, so do that. It should automatically remove the fake anti-spyware for you.
Anopob: also, in between the most familiar parts, necrofantasy is like kekeke and necrofantasia is like bum b um bum
StorrZerg
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
United States13919 Posts
July 02 2009 18:29 GMT
#13
yikes :/
Hwaseung Oz fan for life. Swing out, always swing out.
-StrifeX-
Profile Blog Joined April 2007
United States529 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-07-02 18:47:45
July 02 2009 18:43 GMT
#14
Try using the online free virus // adware virus removal by trend micro.

http://housecall.trendmicro.com/

Maybe this can help some. Also deleting files can only do damage to your operation system if it's inside the System or System 32 file system mostly. Also Windows folder...depending all on OS your running also. Anything in program files or etc...you can delete it might only cause the program of that folder to stop working but not biggie you can go download it again or install it.


If this does not work for you let me know. I can tell you or send you 2 of the best free programs i use at my business to remove things like this.
-StrifeX-
Profile Blog Joined April 2007
United States529 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-07-02 18:54:07
July 02 2009 18:46 GMT
#15
On July 03 2009 03:05 Pakje wrote:
try to delete it through ccleaner?


CCleaner doesn't remove these kind of programs. It only good for like cleaning out Temp folder, Cookies, and etc.. mostly junk not programs attacking or spyware related.


Also System restore usually does not work vs programs like this most the time. People who like to create this stupid software to try and get money aim for you to not be able to simply remove the software. Disable most common function that a normal user or non-experience IT person would try to use.
PanN
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
United States2828 Posts
July 02 2009 19:09 GMT
#16
On July 03 2009 03:28 dkpl wrote:
Download malwarebyte's anti-malware from http://www.malwarebytes.org/

You probably won't be able to install it unless you run it in safe mode, so do that. It should automatically remove the fake anti-spyware for you.


Do this.
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Profile Blog Joined January 2009
Hong Kong4685 Posts
July 02 2009 19:47 GMT
#17
On July 03 2009 03:28 dkpl wrote:
Download malwarebyte's anti-malware from http://www.malwarebytes.org/

You probably won't be able to install it unless you run it in safe mode, so do that. It should automatically remove the fake anti-spyware for you.

+1 this software removes a lot of those fake antivirus programs
Oracle comes in, Scvs go down, never a miscommunication.
f0rgiv3n
Profile Joined January 2008
United States112 Posts
July 02 2009 20:31 GMT
#18
On July 03 2009 04:47 T.O.P. wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 03 2009 03:28 dkpl wrote:
Download malwarebyte's anti-malware from http://www.malwarebytes.org/

You probably won't be able to install it unless you run it in safe mode, so do that. It should automatically remove the fake anti-spyware for you.

+1 this software removes a lot of those fake antivirus programs



+1
3 Lions
Profile Blog Joined October 2007
United States3705 Posts
July 02 2009 21:04 GMT
#19
On July 03 2009 03:28 dkpl wrote:
Download malwarebyte's anti-malware from http://www.malwarebytes.org/

You probably won't be able to install it unless you run it in safe mode, so do that. It should automatically remove the fake anti-spyware for you.

I wouldn't have been able to do this.

If I ran in safe mode with networking, then the System Security automatically pops up as soon as I log in. x.x
Thanks a lot everyone for your input, it will probably help prevent something like this from happening again.

I reformatted, the only important things that I lost were a bunch of notes from the past school year, my replays, and my pictures x.x
dkpl
Profile Joined March 2009
Canada1485 Posts
July 02 2009 22:06 GMT
#20
If you have a flash drive, you could download the installer on the flash drive from another computer, then it would've worked. Well since you formatted now, it doesn't matter I guess
Anopob: also, in between the most familiar parts, necrofantasy is like kekeke and necrofantasia is like bum b um bum
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