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What are the odds I still have a virus

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tjcinnamon

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I foolishly downloaded (and opened without scanning) a mkv "codec" that put some spyware (and potentially a virus) on my computer. I got some pop ups every time I opened up the browser saying of been infected click here to get "protection". Then no matter what you click it sends you to a site to get conned or infected further. This hasn't happened to me in years.

I have SpyBot 1.6 and NOD32 2.5. I ran a deep analysis system scan with nod 32 and it didn't find anything. I ran SpyBot and then cleared out some entries. I then did an online scan from Kaspersky as well as one from TrendMicro. They found one of a virus that was in my NOD32 quarantine but nothing that was active.

It looks like spybot cleared the problem up. As soon as ran it the problems went away.

What are the odds I still have a virus/spyware? What else should I run? I may try 1 or 2 more online scans. I really don't want to have to re-format my system drive.

Thanks,
JOe K.
 
I don't like the GUI in V3 also it is a lot heavier program. The main reason I picked NOD32 was because it was so light weight and constantly updated. They continue to update it.

I figure I almost never run into this crap that I could go a little light on the protection so long as I used my noodle. I got hasty in my mission to view this damn mkv on vlcplayer that I screwed up and didn't scan the small .exe (stupid, I know). I ended up converting the mkv file and it works great.

I got the virus using hijackthis (looked good), Malwarebyte's Anti-malware, NOD32, Spybot 1.6 (got it the first try, the rest were precautionary measures), Kaspersky 1 time DL scan, and a few online scans (Kaspersky, MicroTrend).

Thanks, JOe K.

 
i was a dumbass recently and ran an .exe i knew i shouldn't have been running. long story short, i got some vicious spyware installed. i think it was called "antivirus xp 2008". to get rid of it, i used Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware ... it worked awesomely.

i had antivir installed when it all happened 🙁 guess i should have listened when it said 'dont run it!!!!'
 
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