yank the drive, scan in another PC. Update Java, Flash, Reader
I suggest once you get it clean to install Secunia PSI Christopher Fisk On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 2:58 AM, Winterlight <[email protected]> wrote: > Somewhere in the last 24 hours I picked up the rootkit virus > TrojanDownloader:Win32.Mesmer.A . Just about every time I try to use a link > I get redirected somewhere else. I am running Security Essentials and a scan > did find and eliminate it but of course when I rebooted it was back. I know > rootkit viruses are difficult or impossible to get rid of. > > If I restore a clean Acronis image file of my OS partition, from last month > would that do it? Or should I spend the time trying to kill it and if so > what is the best way.. anybody have experience with this? > > Thanks. > >
