SanAndreasManiac Posted November 30, 2010 Share Posted November 30, 2010 (edited) I go to the internet via lan-houses (cyber-cafés), taking my flash-drive with me, so I can offload all the stuff I download to my PC later, but there's this annoying little virus, which deffinitelly comes from the lan-house PC's, which turns all the folders in the flash-drive into applications, the files are still there, but if you open the exe's, the virus is installed on your PC, then every time you reboot it, the folders will be "replaced" (they are still there, but their icons are replaced by the applicatives) and deleted fake folders will reappear, the last time I had the thing in my old PC, slowness without an apparent reason was present (not sure if it's related) everytime I format the drive or start Windows with the drive plugged but without any folder/exe in it, I get this error message: sign that it infects "lsass.exe", which is a system app, can't mess with it, neither close with task manager I can't use anti-viruses now because, as implied before, my PC is offline, can't update from it, and I've tried to download the updates separately, but the virus database wasn't available In my old PC, I searched with AVG (outdated database), and got a possible name for the little culprit: Brontok32 (or something like that), but now if I use the same AVG it doesn't find anything anyone has any idea of what to do now? like an anti-virus that has solid standalone downloadable updates? PS: I found an update pack for AVG called "Virus definitions", I think it is the database I need, but does it covers just the period since last update was available? or I can put it on my highly outdated antivirus without missing stuff? Edited November 30, 2010 by SanAndreasManiac Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
d00d Posted November 30, 2010 Share Posted November 30, 2010 My advice is to stay away from AVG, and download Avira. Also, this looks like your culprit. Looks like a keylogger, which is typical in internet cafes. Install Avira (and the MS alternative, if you must), bosh in a scan, and then it should be sorted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SanAndreasManiac Posted November 30, 2010 Author Share Posted November 30, 2010 I already used Avira, I just don't like it, it didn't work well for me, and a there's a little traumatic situation involving it... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cidamelo Posted November 30, 2010 Share Posted November 30, 2010 Hi SanAndreasManiac I don't like Avira too, I use Avast. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OverTheBelow Posted December 1, 2010 Share Posted December 1, 2010 Hi SanAndreasManiac I don't like Avira too, I use Avast. Avast is unreliable and can't spot a virus staring it in the face. The free version, anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dog_day_sunrise Posted December 1, 2010 Share Posted December 1, 2010 Hi SanAndreasManiac I don't like Avira too, I use Avast. According to just about every review of free AV software that looked at retails rather than betas, Windows Security Essentials is the best free AV. It's certainly doing a better job than my copy of Symantec Corporate was- and that's properly, prohibitively expensive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SanAndreasManiac Posted December 1, 2010 Author Share Posted December 1, 2010 I downloaded a good virus database update for my AVG, now the virus is gone, the PC is good, and the thread is done Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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