[SOLVED] Virus removal

[alank950]

Guys i downloaded Counterspy from piratebay and there was a nasty virus in the file.Symptoms are screen freeze after boot up,i can move the cursor around although when i click on anything the cursor arrow circle just sits rotating..Tried running scans with Nod32 ,Malwarebytes and SuperAntispyware in safe mode but to no avail..If i were to restore to an earlier state would this help .I went to add remove programmes and it was giving me the 1 option to just change Counterspy,although i was promped to restore to an earlier state to access this change feature for some reason.Any help would be welcomed with this.thanks

[alank950]

Originally Posted by alank950

Guys i downloaded Counterspy from piratebay and there was a nasty virus in the file.Symptoms are screen freeze after boot up,i can move the cursor around although when i click on anything the cursor arrow circle just sits rotating..Tried running scans with Nod32 ,Malwarebytes and SuperAntispyware in safe mode but to no avail..If i were to restore to an earlier state would this help .I went to add remove programmes and it was giving me the 1 option to just change Counterspy,although i was promped to restore to an earlier state to access this change feature for some reason.Any help would be welcomed with this.thanks

Ok think i got it..I booted into sfe mode again and used Malwarebytes file assasin to clear what i could from Counterspy then i restored to an earlier date and it seems to have done the trick.

[tetonbob]

Thanks for letting us know. This goes to show the perils of using torrents and cracked software from sites such as pirate bay.

Perils of P2P File Sharing

Cracked (Illegal) Software

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