Apparently I have aquired a virus called Backdoor.Win32 IRCbot. I have been able to find little info on it and it keeps coming back no matter what I do. A little help would be most welcome.

Scanned with AVG- Nothing found.
Scanned with Avira- Nothing found.
Scanned with COMODO- Found
Scanned with Malwarebytes- Found
Scanned with SUPERAntiSpyware- Found.

Scanned and deleted the infected file. But about an hour later it came back again. I traced the original infection back to mIRC and then it moved into my System Volume information.

 

Get a bootable linux distribution, boot it, delete all instances of your malicious file, restart computer.

 

...or, if you have no idea how to do that, I suggest that you delete your system restore volumes. A lot of trojans/viruses/whatever do hide in there and it can be a pain in the arse to get out. Besides, if your restore points have a virus in them then you can't really restore to them, can you?


Deleting System Restore points can be done through the standard Windows Clean Up tool. After that, I'd do the whole run of scans again in Safe mode.

Twice.

If that fails as well, then maybe you should just consider formatting if it's an option.

 

I had to clean up an infected computer recently and found the geekpolice forums extremely helpful. Had a mod type guy replying and walking me through getting rid of a nasty rootkit. They've got some good tools and guides for detecting and removing stuff.

A quick search on that particular problem sounds like it's four years old. I'd think that one could be removed relatively easily by now.

 

Well, After the 1337 skillz of KrzaQ failed to help my computer retarded ass delete it. I just formated. >_> Lost Photoshop and Watchmen again, for the third time ;_; But on a happy note. It seems to have gone. Hopefully for good. Knock on wood.

 

3rd time? No external drive?

 

Sigh, most people regardless of advise just end up doing that.

Yeah this sort of thing is a pain to fix, some more than others and it is only too easy to just say screw it and reformat the drives.

While most infections can be purged without formating the drives, usually only tech support, computer shops or users of some skill will bother.

 

Eh, I got that virus/trojan plenty of times. Actually, always 'cause of mIRC so I just decided not to have the program. Since then, I was able to remove it and use java. It never seemed to do much, but I figured leaving it was a bad idea.

Reformatting the drives wasn't exactly the best idea. I only do that when I have absolutely no options left. >_> Like it not allowing me to connect to the internet or something.

 

Eh, I don't really have anything on my computer that is important, Don't shop online, don't have any important family pictures. Most of what I have is Sigs, Comics, Manga, Shit like that. Can get that all again anyways so oh well. It's kind of liberating formatting. :| I get to do everything again, Kind of like going back in time.

 

OMFG you got Comodo antivirus to work? lol fucking things locks up my pc everytime I try to use it.

 

Middy: O_O Really? Works great on my laptop. Finds Adware and tracking cookies. Is awesome.

Oz: Think I got it when I went to go download UPP, Vash claimed the site was legit, then BAM! Download it and has a trojan ;-; Should have listened to Syao.

 

CZ > NNS

And what are you talking about?

 

Location: At the crossroad where the demon lies. Waiting to make a deal
Age: 18
Gender: Female

I think he's talking about that you vagina twat.

 

D: Wtf?! When did that happen?

 

rofl, I would have thought that you would have been the first to notice that type of change

 

I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say it probably happened around the time you blamed Vash for downloading a virus.

Then again, you might have just been born that way and your parents flipped a coin.

 

Yeah, maybe it just doesn't like Vista 64, it's scan maybe half the system quick, but it'll choke the system on the bigger files. Avast, Kaspersky, etc, don't have the same problem.