So, my girlfriend had a bunch of Virus warnings tonight, thrown up by AVG free. It claims she's heavily infected with a trojan called SHeur3.AQRA, along with Generic.VBS scripts. I'm having trouble finding information on this scourge, but obviously we want it gone. So, does anyone have any bright ideas on how to fix this problem? I'm looking ideally for advice on how to remove the trojan and save the date, but failing that some comprehensive advice on how to nuke the thing from orbit. I don't want to reformat three times just to find it's been hiding somewhere, nor do I want to overlook any data it might have stolen. Basically, throw your suggestions and ideas at me and I'll reward whoever is the most helpful with a massive amount of rep and a custom avatar. If that means anything to you.
Seems like a nasty one! The only 'fix' I see is on this thread on Techspot... http://www.techspot.com/vb/topic153539.html Seems like the process followed cleaned it up.
Ah ha, to nuke this little blighter from orbit, what I usually do,especially with stubborn viruses is to pull the drive out and install it into another PC..Disconnect yourself from the Internet so it can't try and reload and what ever you do DO NOT click on the drive to explore it or do anything with it, just right click and do a virus scan on that drive and then run maleware bytes. By doing it this way your anti virus can access the windows files but the virus can't run because the windows it wants to run on is not running and it can't access the main PC because it needs to be installed directly into windows, unless it's buried deep in the root you can usually dig it out....Happy nuking
if your willing to format..... nothing......NOTHING! gets past Boot n Nuke, google it, its free and used by US government such as MOD and FBI
CardJoe, that virus is well known for being sorted out by a program called ComboFix. I've done it on a work PC before and it involves sorting out a script to use. Hang on... Edit: Here you go, Joe.
From the looks of that thread though, I'd need to go through that whole palava of creating custom scripts and reports though, right? Might just nuke it.
Hardly a palava. I'm sure a journalist (and Intergalactic Kingpin) like yourself is a dab hand with copy and paste It's all in that thread.
