Virut Outbreak?
I have went out on five virus calls over the past three days, and each person was ultimately infected with the Virut virus. In every instance the customer had worked with other companies, and their computer remained unchanged.
I spent almost six hours on one computer, and because of that I changed my procedure for removing viruses. Instead of running Malwarebytes, which didn’t detect anything, I now run Combofix (which will give you hints about the presence of Virut).
What to do if you have Virut?
If you have Virut, just start backing up your important files, and reinstall Windows or do a system recovery from your recovery CD’s (I don’t trust the recovery partion on the hard drive, because Virut likes to embed itself inside executable files (exe).
Your removal attempts will be time consuming and futile, because spyware removal programs cannot detect Virut. This program starts messing up your system files, and cannot be reversed.
How to keep from getting Virut Again
To protect yourself from Virut after you clean up your system, ditch Norton and McAfee, and buy AVG Internet Security 9.0 ($55), it has very good browser protection (Virut infects computers through infected webpages.
