It sounds similar to one I got a few weeks ago. I was surprised since I was running Firefox, but after reading about it, it's a security hole in Flash, so any browser is vulnerable, and you know how many pages use flash, right?
From a separate computer I googled how to get rid of it, and was able to do without a re-install. In a nutshell, I had to reboot in safemode, clear out temp files, and look in windows directories for any new files that looked suspicous. I also had to delete some registry entries. Once the registry entries were gone, the virus did not seem to re-run once I came into Windows normally. From there I could browse again and run malwarebytes to find and remove any left over junk. Consequently, a friend of mine had to use a restore point to get rid of it, but that might have been a different version of the virus. Good luck- Steve At 09:53 AM 08/09/2010, you wrote: >My kids use this extra laptop that I learned apparently did NOT have up to >date virus protection. Ugh. So now we get something called AntiVir Pro >windows popping up everywhere trying to get us to buy it, and often >windows trying to go out to p0rno.com or other adult sites. Nice. (Not) > >I've got the latest Avast and Malware Bytes softwares on there but neither >is detecting this nuisance. Often when I try to run something I can't and >the pop-up says that the RUNDLL32.EXE is infected. > >Short of wiping this computer and/or reinstalling Windows (XP), what can I >do? > >tia, >--Mike > > > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
