Damn. Take all the time you need.

Finished one, working on yours as we speak. Drawing has officially commenced.

Awesome. I may be without internet for a while. I'll contact you when I have webz again.

Did you install Sony games or software?

That made me giggle

bah Im sure you were do for your yearly windows reinstall.

Might I sugest Avast. Its rather lightweight and has a preboot scan which is very useful..

Hope it all goes well!

SUch a long and tedious and annoying process, especially since i got windows 7 now which has....crashed only 4 times lol, but seems to get more stable the more i use it. None of my software was 64 bit though so it's been taking me forever tracking down everything i need and every little driver for every little device and ugh, i just hate doing this.

You might have fallen victim to the recent Java exploit that's been making the round, is in heavy use and won't be fixed by oracle for some time.
Please everyone disable your Java browser plugin until the whole thing is fixed.

You probably won't be able to get around a format and reinstall, a once compromised system usually can never be trusted again, as you can't be sure how deep malicious software might have changed binaries :/

Boot from a live media and backup your non executable files that you still need somewhere, clean that as good as you can and start new is the only reasonable thing you can do if you plan on doing anything remotely security relevant on that machine again if the infection really is as big as you describe it :/

Actually, I heard that Oracle actually broke cycle to fix this one.

True, just read about it as well. It's still ridiculous by oracle considering how long the exploit has been known, and the rest of the advise should still be valid :)

same here dude.. i am running malware and avg combined.

I got one because some asshole infected an ad, so when the ad banner loaded up, it got right through my damn firewall and dug itselt into my F'ing System 32 files.

I got one like that from fucking lulz.net. My stupid roommate turned off my ABP for something he briefly had to do and forgot to turn it back on. I had a horrid infection but i didn't have to nuke it like i did this one.

Boot up into Safe Mode and use System Restore to a much earlier date. It works miracles <3

Nice suggestion for some situations, although not for Trojans and Rootkits. They can hide themselves on parts of the hard drive that the operating system doesn't always use or within files, and even hides them within the MBR (Master Boot Record) and in that case the only way to get rid of them is to sometimes do a low-level format to wipe every single sector on the drive.

And I quote (from: http://www.computerworld.com/s/arti.....removal_advice )
"Malware like Popureb is especially difficult to detect and delete once it's on a system because it overwrites the hard drive's MBR, the first sector -- sector 0 -- where code is stored to bootstrap the operating system after the computer's BIOS does its start-up checks. Because it hides on the MBR, the rootkit installed by Popureb makes not only itself, but any follow-on malware installed by it later, invisible to both the operating system and security software."

Or better yet do what I did.. AVG finds that the services.exe file was infected. Ok. I tried to boot up and delete the file in safe mode? No dice. So what did I do?

I found my install disk, booted it up to the command line and went ahead and deleted the file THAT way.

The result? Windows patched itself and the virus is GONE.

Google up falcon boot disc, pretty much the same as you did but with a nice GUI: D