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December 27, 2008

While things have finally thawed out and melted away our snow and ice, my computer has been hit by its own winter storm. A trojan horse called SHeur 2.HSF is proving to be a pernicious little bugger.

It takes over your browser intermittently throwing up new web pages, new windows, or constant fake invitations to 'virusremover2008' and similar virus detection and removal products. I have tried using my AVG and Ad Aware to eliminate the trojan, but each time they immediately reappear. I have tried quarantining instead of deleting, but that didn't appear to work. I tried restarting in safe mode and repeating the same process. I even tried an online diagnosis tool, but it froze part way through. If anyone has any recommendations, I would appreciate the help.

I had planned to blog about superstitions in poker, but this is more pressing at the moment.

Edit: The latest threat detection - Trojan horse BHO.GSS attacking WindowsSysem32 files.

Entry Tags: SHeur 2.HSF trojan horse

Dec 27, 08 22:15:27

http://www.techsupportforum.com/

http://www.techsupportforum.com/
this site can help you with problems like this
first you have to complete a manual of them, then you can create a post with a log from one of their tools. And they will help you remove it from then on.

iceball

Dec 28, 08 03:18:09

the solution

stop surfing porn sites

feltbot

Dec 28, 08 03:52:46

You know the one thing most people forget about that solves alot of this. Turn off the stupid "system restore" that basically makes a "save point" in case you have to backup to an older version of your OS. If you don't have it turned off that's probably how it's reappearing.

Hokulea

Dec 28, 08 18:02:36

www.malwarebytes.org

pf22100