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trojan.Swizzor.Gen 8
#1
Posted 03 March 2010 - 06:38 AM
my anti virus (bullguard) earlier found my iourbanterror.exe is a malware virus (trojan.swizzor.gen 8) and deleted my exe, so i thought ill just reinstall the game to replace the .exe that was deleted and when i click on any of the download mirrors as soon as the download starts my anti virus screams trojan.swizzor.gen 8 at me..
any ideas how i can stop this or what may be causing it? ive just finished a full scan and removed everything that it found that this trojan infected including battlefied2, DVD suite, ATI drivers.. and its still happening
any help/advise will be appriecated
any ideas how i can stop this or what may be causing it? ive just finished a full scan and removed everything that it found that this trojan infected including battlefied2, DVD suite, ATI drivers.. and its still happening
any help/advise will be appriecated
#2
Posted 03 March 2010 - 07:09 AM
run Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware once; it has good reputation.
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#4
Posted 03 March 2010 - 08:09 AM
PITA situation.
Run Malwarebytes from safe mode, run CCleaner, run a full antivirus sweep, then re-run Malwarebytes.
If you are unlucky and have been hit by a rootkit virus, then you have about a 50/50 chance of fixing it or having to reinstall windows.
First identify exactly what your infection is (Malwarebytes / Antivirus), look it up online, try and find some removal instructions. Get a program called gmer, but beware this is a dangerous program to use, but it will find rootkits and allow you to kill processes that you normally cant kill.
http://www.gmer.net/
Generally if its replaced or hooked itself into winlogon.exe then it will be a major PITA to remove and fix it. Most of the ones ive seen infect all your system restore points, so you cant restore a point from a month. The last time i fixed a machine that was infected this way it ended with me having to reinstall windows, as the OS was neither repairable or bootable. YMMV.
Run Malwarebytes from safe mode, run CCleaner, run a full antivirus sweep, then re-run Malwarebytes.
If you are unlucky and have been hit by a rootkit virus, then you have about a 50/50 chance of fixing it or having to reinstall windows.
First identify exactly what your infection is (Malwarebytes / Antivirus), look it up online, try and find some removal instructions. Get a program called gmer, but beware this is a dangerous program to use, but it will find rootkits and allow you to kill processes that you normally cant kill.
http://www.gmer.net/
Generally if its replaced or hooked itself into winlogon.exe then it will be a major PITA to remove and fix it. Most of the ones ive seen infect all your system restore points, so you cant restore a point from a month. The last time i fixed a machine that was infected this way it ended with me having to reinstall windows, as the OS was neither repairable or bootable. YMMV.
#5
Posted 03 March 2010 - 04:11 PM
Nizmo, on 03 March 2010 - 06:38 AM, said:
when i click on any of the download mirrors as soon as the download starts my anti virus screams trojan.swizzor.gen 8 at me..
Sounds very much like false positive, huh?
There are a couple of viruses that infect all the programs (.exe files) when you access them..
But, could a virus really infect a file before its even completely downloaded?
If that's what you have, better format (just remember to backup all FF7 saves and your moms folder).
But, I still think it's a false positive tho.
- TNS :>
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#6
Posted 03 March 2010 - 04:15 PM
That's a very relevant point ^. If you've not used Urban Terror before with this Antivirus it might be a bug with the antivirus, e.g producing a false positive. Because we certainly know there's not a bug on the Urban Terror 4.1 installer.
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- Networking, lag meter, and gaming consistency guide
#8
Posted 03 March 2010 - 07:44 PM
as im downloading urbanterror again now, it seems like the scan using malwarebytes worked a treat hopefully it doesnt make a return because i really dont want to reinstall windows lol but thanks to everyone who toke their time to reply and help me out much appreciated..
#9
Posted 06 July 2010 - 12:29 PM
NizMo, on 03 March 2010 - 06:38 AM, said:
my anti virus (bullguard) earlier found my iourbanterror.exe is a malware virus (trojan.swizzor.gen 8) and deleted my exe, so i thought ill just reinstall the game to replace the .exe that was deleted and when i click on any of the download mirrors as soon as the download starts my anti virus screams trojan.swizzor.gen 8 at me..
any ideas how i can stop this or what may be causing it? ive just finished a full scan and removed everything that it found that this trojan infected including battlefied2, DVD suite, ATI drivers.. and its still happening
any help/advise will be appriecated
any ideas how i can stop this or what may be causing it? ive just finished a full scan and removed everything that it found that this trojan infected including battlefied2, DVD suite, ATI drivers.. and its still happening
any help/advise will be appriecated
hi! sorry but the only solution is to take other antivirus. i had the same problems and i changed my avast with kaspersky. now is ok and i use this version int sec version 7
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