Ugh :( Try downloading AVG or something not McAfee or Symantec... it sounds like the virus attacks the well known virus scanners. AVG may fly under the radar.
Oh, my God, I got one of these two weeks ago. It shut down my computer for two or three days; Dave had to do a full wipe of all the virus checkers we have because the first thing it attacked was McAfee, Malwarebytes, and Spybot. It attached itself to those so that every time I tried to run them, it would attach to EVERYthing that those checkers scanned. It was horrible.
I had to immediately disable the LAN connection on my computer too - it jumped from mine to Jacob's in about 30 seconds. I was fast, but it was faster. Luckily what hopped onto Jake's computer didn't propagate the way mine did, but oy. It wasn't pretty, and it took Dave every little trick he knew to get around it long enough to rename Malwarebytes something different so that he could use it to quarantine the virus. The computer still doesn't run correctly; I have to pop to a new profile to use the 'net.
I feel for you, I do. If there's anything I can do, let me know!
My friend, Patti, is an IT guru. She walked me through a bunch of stuff. Then she used Logmein to work on things herself. We tried rkill and it blocked that. We tried SDfix and that wouldn't work because I could not retart in safe mode. I did see the thing about having to rename malwarebytes to get around it.
I knew immediately what it was and shut down. Then I called Patti. Still, it took 6+ hours to fix it.
Thanks for your support, honey. I feel your pain if you went through this.
Very, very late to this convo but I got that virus as well from a trusted website though not photobucket but it was an image sharing file...and both work and home computers were affected. Our IT guy said it was not actually from the site itself but from the popups that so many sites are using nowadays for revenue. Hackers can somehow piggyback on those ads (I think that's what he told me).
Our work computers are very well protected and it still got through. My work computer was repaired fairly quickly, but not my home computer.
I recommend Hitman Pro 3.5 and Superantispyware. The first is a cloud computing scanner out of the Netherlands and the second has a free version that is the best I have ever used.
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I've never had anything like this and it came from a trusted site (we are pretty unhappy about that).
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I had to immediately disable the LAN connection on my computer too - it jumped from mine to Jacob's in about 30 seconds. I was fast, but it was faster. Luckily what hopped onto Jake's computer didn't propagate the way mine did, but oy. It wasn't pretty, and it took Dave every little trick he knew to get around it long enough to rename Malwarebytes something different so that he could use it to quarantine the virus. The computer still doesn't run correctly; I have to pop to a new profile to use the 'net.
I feel for you, I do. If there's anything I can do, let me know!
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I knew immediately what it was and shut down. Then I called Patti. Still, it took 6+ hours to fix it.
Thanks for your support, honey. I feel your pain if you went through this.
HUGS
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Our work computers are very well protected and it still got through. My work computer was repaired fairly quickly, but not my home computer.
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Glad you were able to recover!
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