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    Default Removing Glennis Virus

    Warning: The virus is a keylogger. Watch out.

    Yesterday, Glenni posted a thread in off-topic which was supposedly a java game. It wasn't. Many of you that opened it may be infected with a virus, and here's how to remove it.

    Everything with an icon like this is the virus:

    Be aware though, just because it doesn't have that icon it doesn't mean it's not the virus.

    How to remove:
    First of all, clear temp. internet files. Also start>run>%temp% and remove all files there. Someone said they got a vbscript there, and it's best to be on the safe side.
    Next, go to regedit and find "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Cur rentVersion\Run". If you have something there called "winlogonuser", delete it. Don't remove winlogon. Only winlogonuser. Now find the path where winlogonuser is located, for me it was "C:/Programdata/Microsoft/Windows/Start%20Menu/Programs/Startup/", which contained Run.exe and winlogonuser.exe. Remove both.
    Next, navigate to "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Run". If you have svchost there, delete it, and find the path where it was located. For me and Bull it was in %appdata%/Microsoft. I also had four other files there, run.exe, server.exe, out.exe and 3minrun.exe. Delete all of them.
    There is also a copy of winlogonuser in C:\WINDOWS\system32\. Delete it.
    Last, do a search for some of the files you have already deleted, like winlogonuser. They may hide other places.
    Reboot.
    If you haven't already, run a full virus scan.

    Quote Originally Posted by fireeater67 View Post
    I found another instance of winlogonuser in C:\WINDOWS\system32\
    You should also run "msconfig" and uncheck startup items "dumprep 0 -k", "svchost", "winlogonuser"x2, and "Run".
    The svchost there is fake, because a real svchost that Windows creates will never show up in startup.
    Also nearly everything you find that seems weird and has a strange skull-like icon, it's probably part of this virus.
    Please note, I'm not 100% sure that this will remove everything. It may have infected other places. I'd enourage a reformat, as well.

    Steam Account Warning
    Guarantee he was after steam accounts. Change your passwords on a different computer unless you have reformatted yours (to be 100% safe). The keylogger doesn't look that complex, but it's still better to be on the side of caution.
    Last edited by Anticept; 12-01-2009 at 05:34 AM.

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    Default Re: Removing Glennis Virus

    What does this virus do?
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    Default Re: Removing Glennis Virus

    Does that virus also affect WIN7 because I clicked it and I didn't get any virus(these files).
    seriously getting serious

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    Default Re: Removing Glennis Virus

    Quote Originally Posted by Whosdr View Post
    What does this virus do?
    It made my computer hang for a few seconds once in a while, but what it did is unknown. Perhaps it's a keylogger that was sending data, perhaps it was reproducing itself. Either way, it's best to remove it.

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    I never allowed anything from that site to run, so I think im safe. I trust AVG. It checks all new data.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Whosdr View Post
    I never allowed anything from that site to run, so I think im safe. I trust AVG. It checks all new data.
    I have AVG. I still got it.

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    Will glenni get banned for this?

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    Default Re: Removing Glennis Virus

    I just got another alert from svchost - 2009-11-29_1657
    Obviously, this doesn't remove everything.

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    Default Re: Removing Glennis Virus

    I sure won't be clicking that link if it is still there.

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    Default Re: Removing Glennis Virus

    Bull and I are currently working on finding all related files and eliminating them.

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