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[Aklyon]

Norton is a completely different problem, but the problems seems to have been solved so I'll stop there.

[Haspen]

KaelGotDwarves, I'm not yer stereotypical kid who thinks he is save behind a firewall

I managed to ru na PC for 11 years with only one malfunction, but.

1. Was done two months ago.
2. Not using any.
3. Just used Malwarebytes as well.
4. Using Firefox.
5. From old habit, I barely download anything. And not visiting shady porn sites.

Finally:

6. Malwarebyte just found two worms at windows' shell and logon. Nuke them or leave at quarantine?

[Urist McMalaclypse]

Kael,

While you really shouldn't need any AV to surf the web, that's unfortunately not the only way to get a virus.

True story: last spring, I was installing a Windows machine, and made the mistake of leaving it connected to the internet before I had put on anti-virus. It got a virus over the wire, without any web-surfing, etc - I was still doing Microsoft Update #ArghYouBloodyThing.

Yes, if you can't use common sense, you WILL get infected, but some additional protection is sadly necessary to protect your machine from malware that actively seeks out machines to infect.

[Ringmaster]

I know the problem's been solved, but in certain cases there may be a completely mundane answer to the plea "Help, a new google search tab just opened without my permission!"

These new-fangled mice they've been making recently contain more than four buttons, in fact, one of my old ones contained six (Technically ten). Only four of which I knew the purpose of. I had the same problem as this, when I realised that all of these new search tabs contained things that were in my clipboard. I later found out, after several reports of the bug and many, many virus scans, that this was in fact due to my mouse.

You see, one of the buttons was configured to automatically run a Google search of whatever was on my clipboard at the time of clicking, and due to the position and sensitivity of the button, every time i moved the mouse a certain direction I accidentally clicked it, opening a new google search tab.

So, if you suffer from this problem and virus-searching isn't fixing it, check your mouse, it's sneakier than it looks.

[KaelGotDwarves]

Kael,

While you really shouldn't need any AV to surf the web, that's unfortunately not the only way to get a virus.

True story: last spring, I was installing a Windows machine, and made the mistake of leaving it connected to the internet before I had put on anti-virus. It got a virus over the wire, without any web-surfing, etc - I was still doing Microsoft Update #ArghYouBloodyThing.

Yes, if you can't use common sense, you WILL get infected, but some additional protection is sadly necessary to protect your machine from malware that actively seeks out machines to infect.

...

Viruses don't "magic" their way onto your computer, and such updating-computer bruteforce attacks are rare and tend to be directed for a particular purpose. Malware do not think for themselves, and follow protocols programmed into them.

Lastly, if you left open a whole bunch of ports -because as you say that's all that's connecting you to the net- while still updating (which probably includes windows firewall and security fixes + were you installing genuine windows or a copy?) then chances are, you're just asking for it. That's commonsense 2010 for you.

Most firewalls cause more trouble than they actually protect you from random attacks.

6. Malwarebyte just found two worms at windows' shell and logon. Nuke them or leave at quarantine?

Quarantine first, reboot, see if there's any issues, if not - nuke.

[Haspen]

6. Malwarebyte just found two worms at windows' shell and logon. Nuke them or leave at quarantine?

Quarantine first, reboot, see if there's any issues, if not - nuke.

Done that. Nothing wrong happens.

PC even loads stuff faster. Thanks for help, Kael.

[Urist McMalaclypse]

Viruses don't "magic" their way onto your computer, and such updating-computer bruteforce attacks are rare and tend to be directed for a particular purpose. Malware do not think for themselves, and follow protocols programmed into them.

The issue wasn't with an update bruteforce.

I was installing a legit Windows build for my professor. When I figured out what had happened, I put Wireshark on the machine to look at it; it appears to have picked an IP address not on our network, and scanned systematically from that address (it would scan xxx.xxx.xxx.1, then xxx.xxx.xxx.2, and so on and so forth). Again, it was scanning machines not on our own network, which is what makes me think that's how it got on the machine I was loading.

Like I said, I accidentally left the machine connected to the internet, rather than connecting to the server that had the school's antivirus and the Windows Update data I was using. There's a small switch so we can load data from the server without being accessible from other machines, I was just an idiot and left the machine on the network.

If you want to see a similar thing in action, load up a spare computer with XP (even SP2 should work), and leave it on and connected to the internet. You could get lucky, but given a couple of months, there's a decent chance that something will hit it.

[Zrk2]

Ok, take your malware and email it to the email in the 'Shady Email' thread.

Problem solved.

[Tuxman]

Had this before.

Step 1: Download Rkill (google search, or go here-   http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/topic308364.html)
Step 2: Run Rkill
Step 3: Download Malewarebites Antimalware
Step 4: Run Malewarebites Antimalware
Step 5: Full system scan with above product

Rkill will shut down the virus as long as you are running it, and allow you to download malewarebites (Free) and run it.