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[Aramco]

Well, my computer seems to have contracted a virus. So, where else would I go but Bay12? Alright, it calls itself "Antivirus Moniter." It won't let me run anything or access the internet (I'm in safe mode right now), and is pretending to be an Antivirus program. Ha! What a joke! Who'd actually pay these people? They're jerks, that's what. So how do I get it off? (Quick, before it gets worse!)

[MetalSlimeHunt]

A. Use Task Manager to find and end its task if you can. Sometimes these viruses can block that.

B. Go on Google and look up the virus name to find a site that has analized it. Don't worry, there will be one. There always is.

1C. (Computer Illiterate-Safe) Try to make your antivirus recognize and remove the virus as best you can. End.

2C (Computer Literate-Dangerous). Find out the virus's regestry ID. Go on to step D.

D. Regedit.

E. Delete the virus's regestry entry. End.

[Cthulhu]

Google rkill.exe and use that while the virus is running.  It'll terminate all of the active virus processes and display their file locations.  Navigate to those and delete the virus.  Run a virusscan and restart your computer.  If the internet still doesn't work go into internet options and turn off the proxy it uses to block your internet.

[Aramco]

1C. (Computer Illiterate-Safe) Try to make your antivirus recognize and remove the virus as best you can. End.

Because I never thought to scan my computer. (It's scanning right now, almost half done.)

Well, it's kind of gone. It is mostly gone-- but it keeps disabling mah internets and I have to manually fix it everytime.

[Cthulhu]

It's not gone.

[Aramco]

It's not gone.

I don't know, it's not happening anymore. If it's not messing with me, it can hang around if it wants.

[clockout1]

Try booting into safe mode and scanning.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Letting it stay on your computer is unwise. Once, a virus that had been on my computer for too long (I had some trouble removing it.) corrupted my regestry. That was not fun to repair.

[Taricus]

Repair the OS's inatallation.

[Alexhans]

Best advice in this cases is just to google the name of the virus or the name of the process that the virus calls itself and check out how other people dealt with the problem (as in, registry names, etc) because, sometimes, it's not as simple as scanning, killing a process or removing the registry if there's a worm that keeps reinstalling it every time you start the OS.

A coworker of mine had a problem with one that was called Rapid Antivirus and suggested a 80 us$ purchase to stop getting fake bluescreens and modified Windows intro screens.  I had to disconnect the machine, start with VGA mode F8 and find the motherfuworm in the TrashBin.  Then erase the registry. 

[Vector]

I believe there's something called "Malware bytes" or similar, which I used to get rid of what sounds like the same virus.  It's free and will take care of that sucker.  Just make sure that you don't get an infected download.

[white_darkness]

Instructions for removal...here.

[Moogie]

Never leave viruses on your system just because "they aren't messing with me".


You'll regret it when you start realising all your passwords and banking details have been stolen.

[Peewee]

I believe there's something called "Malware bytes" or similar, which I used to get rid of what sounds like the same virus.  It's free and will take care of that sucker.  Just make sure that you don't get an infected download.

(see my signature)

[Bohandas]

I've had a virus similar to this one time. in addition to screwing with the internet it also locked me out of my real antivirus programs and out of task manager as well, but I found that if I attempted to start multiple instances of these programs in quick succession the virus would sometimes miss one of them, thus enabling me to run the programs necessary to disable the virus.