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Did my retard brother get a virus from watching PORN?

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ManBearPig

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I've never seen anything like this. I built him this computer about a year or so ago, and apparently it stopped working after he watched some porn.

How the **** can your RAM, GPU RAM, and HDD ALL get effed up at once?!

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Any ideas on what to do? I am baffled lol. I almost don't believe this image. Seems like some sort of virus/malware popup because I've never seen that.
 
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kazaam said:
I've never seen anything like this. I built him this computer about a year or so ago, and apparently it stopped working after he watched some porn.

How the **** can your RAM, GPU RAM, and HDD ALL get effed up?!

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Any ideas on what to do? I am baffled lol.
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Very easily. Run an AV program, run a anti malware program, run MS malware removal program. Use Hijackthis to clear out any remaining crap including any boot sector virus and tatoo on his forehead the necessity of running an up to date AV program.
 
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Bastard must have entered the Grid.

I'd run a boot scan with Antivirus. If that doesn't work, I'd reformat.
 
Stop using a browser that lets scripts run globally. Or install 'nix. 😉

You do realize that screen shot of a "utility" is actually the problem, right?
 
I don't know about very easy removed or not. What you are looking at is actually the trojan itself. I fought something that looked like this on my daughter's PC for 3 days. I screwed the living hell out of the OS. Even after finally getting it off her PC, an install of the OS over top of the original (to keep all installed programs and data intact) didn't correct it. Had to find registry hacks online to fix the damage that this bastard did. Almost formatted the darn thing.

MS Security essentials took it off but only in safe mode. Took Malwarebytes and another downloaded specialized cleaner to finally get it completely out of everything. Left the desktop blank and no icons would appear. Took a script to fix that.

By the way, my daughter caught it from facebook. MS Essentials popped up and asked my daughter to accept or deny the virus. She accepted it without reading it and bam....it was all over but the crying.

I would post this in the security forum if you have not already done so.

http://forums.anandtech.com/forumdisplay.php?f=41
 
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Careful - could be one of those scammy fake antivirus website popups. The "Click here to activate full-functional version" is suspect.
 
I figured the chances of all that stuff messing up at once were pretty low. Yeah, seems like a confirmed trojan/malware. What a fucking retard, I'm pretty sure I made it really hard for him to get anything like that, but his lack of common sense made short work of that. Ughhhhhhh...wish he wasn't 100 miles away.
 
RKILL that bastard, clean up with malwarebytes. Also look for rootkits with GMER (www.gmer.net)

Bleepingcomputer.com has a decent security board to help you out especially if you want to duke it out and use stuff like combo fix, etc.
 
kazaam said:
I figured the chances of all that stuff messing up at once were pretty low. Yeah, seems like a confirmed trojan/malware. What a fucking retard, I'm pretty sure I made it really hard for him to get anything like that, but his lack of common sense made short work of that. Ughhhhhhh...wish he wasn't 100 miles away.
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So, why aren't you letting him fix it himself?
 
Just get adaware. It's free and it stops and removes all the standard shit without being as annoying as fuck.
 
Rubycon said:
Ad Aware as well as spybot are easily defeated by these malicious programs these days.
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Yeah.

I usually just do a boot scan with Avira and/or Avast, a full scan with MSE and a online scan from Bitdefender.

If it's still not gone, I reformat.
Reformatting is usually the best option, especially if you have a clean drive image on hand to restore from.
 
Engineer said:
MS Security essentials took it off but only in safe mode. Took Malwarebytes and another downloaded specialized cleaner to finally get it completely out of everything. Left the desktop blank and no icons would appear. Took a script to fix that.

By the way, my daughter caught it from facebook. MS Essentials popped up and asked my daughter to accept or deny the virus. She accepted it without reading it and bam....it was all over but the crying.
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I've gotten something like that twice. Luckily, I learned to use a non-admin account 95% of the time, so worst case I just had to set-up a new user.

Think the last time it happened, I safemode booted, ran Antivir, Malwarebytes and Microsoft SE. That still didn't take care of the registry thing, I had to re-run all 3 antiviruses on a normal boot with the infected user to get rid of it.
 
MagnusTheBrewer said:
Methinks you haven't dealt with too many viruses. Many folks also think that formatting will fix everything. This is not true. If you have a boot sector virus, formatting alone won't fix it.
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FDISK /mbr

I usually use DBAN to zero my drive before repartitioning, though.
 
nboy22 said:
Safe mode -> System Restore.

Works every time.
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This one destroyed the restore copies.

Next......
Imp said:
I've gotten something like that twice. Luckily, I learned to use a non-admin account 95% of the time, so worst case I just had to set-up a new user.

Think the last time it happened, I safemode booted, ran Antivir, Malwarebytes and Microsoft SE. That still didn't take care of the registry thing, I had to re-run all 3 antiviruses on a normal boot with the infected user to get rid of it.
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I might have done the same, I just don't remember. I ran so many different scans from so many different modes that it left me in a daze.
 
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