I could use all the help I can get!
Yesterday, I downloaded something, I now regret. The file was laced with trojans and virus, one of those being the dreaded SpyQuake (As if the others weren't enough). Almost instantly I had over 10 popups, from SpyQuake to Winvirus!
First I tried AVG anti-virus. It cleaned out some. Then counter spy. It cleaned out over 300 infected regs. and 50+ infected programs/ files. But still, I had the pesky SpyQuake and Winvirus! So next I downloaded Spybot S&D. It got rid of over 50 different trojans! (I also downloaded Ewido, but it is only finding cookies =/). After that, I called it a night, unplugged my internet cable in went to bed.
This morning, I was expecting everything to be okay, but overnight, the gang of anti-virus/ anti- spyware each found (Auto scans.. yay!) Their own virus and trojans! I deleted them, and ran more scans. Every scan I do, I keep finding more and more! All day I have been scanning and deleting, scanning and deleting. This afternoon, I noticed my background had been deleted to a blue screen! I fixed that problem, and thought I was in the clear.
I put up all the shields the programs offered, my firewall, and my settings to max security, and plugged in my internet. Things went smoothly, up until an hour ago. I was using FireFox and I noticed the WinVirus tabs and alerts. Also, my computer decided to slow down, and my internet started to move slower than my old dial up! (I am running broadband).
I ran spybot, and it found 3 trojans. I deleted them, and made sure to run Spybot again (I am paranoid =/). THE SAME THREE WERE BACK! I am running my others now, and so far counter spy found a trojan that spybot did not find.
How is this possible? How can they keep coming? Is there anyway some sort of 'hole' has been opened and someone/ some program is feeding them through?
