Win32 virus

[ArcturusFyr]

Today on the 2nd of July while I was finding mod's to download on Skyrim Nexus, something rather peculiar happened. After downloading over or exactly half a dozen mods, I began to view another file, or rather tried, the mod that had my interest was the Skyrim Dragon Priest Armor for Males and Females (not sure if the title is entirely correct), at first the page wouldn't load up, instead a white background came up saying something about not being able to load the page, it was different however, to the Google Chrome "oops!, link appears to be broken/not working, please try again" error that i'd at times get.

 

The font of the message on the error page was big and had two buttons below the message one I think was "reboot page" or something the other 'Technical" or "Technician". I paid no mind the buttons and pressed the back button from my browser (Google Chrome) to the page with the title of the mod shown, clicked on the file again, page showed up correctly this time. saw the picture of the mod (old man wearing dragon priest armor shooting lightning from hands or a staff) all of sudden the page with mod I was gone vanished, and replacing was a empty page (white) in the center however was a small prompt/window the top part of it saying something like "queermalwarescanprocessesfound" or something along those lines, the url was pretty similar as-well. inside the little box was the message "Several viruses have been found!" System at risk! use the queer system virus scan!" or what-not, bottom of the prompt

[ArcturusFyr]

Part 2: was a "ok" button, didn't click that, started up task manager, went to Applications, even the application was titled like the website, this one I remember a bit more clearly "Alert! several viruses detected on your computer, scan now!" or something like it, closed it with task manager, disable internet, went to "History" cleared it out, used ccleaner to clean registry and internet files, did disk clean up, went to actual temp folder and cleared it out, used malware bytes free edition, a few moments later moments later I also decided to completely unplug my modem during the scan process, at the eleventh minute of scanning. eset nod 32 started to act up up and show a red box that said programs/win32/risky, virus or something like it, malware bytes had found nothing, but that's because the virus had been quarantined before malware bytes got to it event said it was cleaned, I found it in quarantine and deleted it (I know, pretty stupid right? Was shocked by what had happened to much think clearly) look at my eset not 32 "statistics" chart of Antivirus and Realtime both found 3 infected objects and 1 cleaned.

 

This had never happened to me before, have the latest edition of java, eset nod 32 should have latest definitions, browser is also fully updated, firewall was on cleaned out registry before going on internet(ccleaner). Please post your thoughts, experiences and advice on this matter.

[ArcturusFyr]

Thank You in Advance to all.

[Killerbuddy]

Haven't had this particular thing happen to me, but every now and then, in a blue moon, I get that bs "your system is infected, run scan now" lol. What I personally do is kill the internet explorer tree in processes rather than through applications tab.

[bben46]

When you see that Bogus virus message your best bet is to kill the power immediately. While you are reading, the virus could be infecting your system.

 

This is a form of blackmail. The bogus virus will keep pestering you until you either finally get rid of it or you pay them to remove the virus they put on your computer. If you pay, they Still don't remove it, just mask the messages and keep collecting your data hoping for a credit card or bank account number they can sell.

 

Here s a link to a malware removal guide. http://forums.majorgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=35407

 

If there is nothing on your system that is important or cannot be replaced, the quickest way to get rid of it may be to reformat the hard disk, reinstall Windows and start over.

 

I use a rescue CD - my current one is by Kapersky. Be sure to use an uninfected computer to create it. Then boot from the rescue CD. It will bypass the infected windows on your computer and run a scan from the CD http://support.kaspersky.com/viruses/rescuedisk/

[ArcturusFyr]

Goodness, I even attracted a staff member :P. But in all seriousness, I was hoping that i'd wouldn't have to do all those things, still, good stuff. Has this been happening lately though? I've used Skyrim Nexus many times and haven't encountered such a thing like this. I suppose I did make a record however, 6-7 months without a Virus until now. All good things must end at some point I suppose. Anyway, to those whom had replied, I Thank You. Please feel free to post more if you think you also have advice to add.