Virus removal tutorial

adarsh

adarsh

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Hi guys, I'm interested in Virus removal, and can read and understand HJT logs. But ever since I joined this forum, I realised on how much I din't really know.
Can anyone PLEASE help me recognise infections and how to remove them?? Please! I really want to learn to remove viruses and malware by myself.

I cannot understand how you people recognise these infections and reply with the right removal methods. :(:(:(
 
Thanks webbenji, I'm already on that forum. But I cannot understand how to recognise certain infections. I really feel amused when you, Ceewi, Buzz1927, John Mckenna or ByteMan recognise the infections and provide the necessary disfection methods.
 
I actually got addicted, I just didn't spend my time only on this forum... bleepincomputer and some websites got me into it.

adarsh, to recognize infections, you must be careful on the symptoms. For example, if the user has many pop-ups asking him to download a anti-spyware or telling him he has viruses when his A-V can't pick up anything, there are chances it's a SmitFraud Infection. Also some infections can be found by googling some process you're not sure if it's good or bad. Then you get more info on it and fix it.
 
How can you be sure that its a SmitFraud infection? Im always confused about SmitFraud and when to use SmitFraudFix and combofix.

Thanks for ur help, webbenji.
 
SmitfraudFix offers two options, 1 (scan) and 2(fix). Always do option 1 than if it founds something go for option 2.
 
i think he ment when to use the smitfraud fix not what the options in it mean, from my observations, smitfraud attempts to hide the viruses from your av and the spyware from your antispyware, so like web said if there was a case where a user is getting the "your computer is infected download this" type thing yet there spyware dosent find anything, it may be a smitfraud infection, correct me if im wrong =p
 
Smitfraud is a infection, it's symptoms:
Desktop changed to a "red alert" saying "your virus is infected"
Pop-Ups asking to download other spywares (viruses)
Pop-ups telling him he's infected (but sometimes it's true :D)

You use Smitfraud when you think it's a smitfraud infection and always use option 1 before moving to two.
 
Thanks for your reply, benji.

One more thing, how do I recognise a SmitFraud infection from a HJT log?
 
It adds programs in various ## sections, you recognize them by googling them. I always google unknown processes.

Usually when he gets pop-ups asking him to download a spyware, i always make him scan with SmitFraudFix.

If you're interested, i suggest you check out the forum I posted earlier. They are great at teaching you.
 
I am a member at it already. I just wanted to know more about SmitFraud infection.
I am currently undergoing training at that forum.
 
webbenji said:
It adds programs in various ## sections, you recognize them by googling them. I always google unknown processes.

Usually when he gets pop-ups asking him to download a spyware, i always make him scan with SmitFraudFix.
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You're a genius, mate, why didn't I think of that?
 
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