I run a windows/linux dual boot, so I have a safe haven in linux. Yesterday I booted up my Pc in windows, and I saw a pic on my desktop that I had never seen before, and I new it was "fishy" so I scanned it and it came up clean so i opend it up to see what it was. When enlarged it it was an old black and white picture of 1800's era ramshackle house with the widows smashed and the door cracked, to where to could see a figure and a light. Mind you this picture looked legit. So i new something was up and I got a phony antivirus popup message, which led me to believe this might be 2 different viruses. So I booted in safe mode did a system restore, ran my anti virus, and It came up clean. So I went on about with my business. Then I heard noise coming from my headphones and I listened to a it and it was a raspy voice w/static. So now I was pissed that someone is going out of their way to jack with me. I have been searching for any clue on how this prick is doing this or if anyone has ever heard of this before. I have been using my linux os and so far so good. But I have not booted into windows because i don't want my montier to start bleeding. Any advice or clue you could give me would be nice, mind you though I am not tech savy. Oh and it wont let me run a factory restore from my back up disk.
When in doubt use a different AV Try this, burn it and boot into it. http://www.softpedia.com/get/Antivirus/Kaspersky-Rescue-Disk.shtml
I know the Flash exploit has been rampant recently, so some scanners might be a little behind with their definition updates. Try some of the free online scanners. http://www.pandasecurity.com/activescan/index/ http://www.bitdefender.com/scanner/online/free.html http://free.antivirus.com/ http://usa.kaspersky.com/downloads/free-virus-scan http://www.eset.com/online-scanner http://personalfirewall.comodo.com/scan/avscanner.html I would also run Microsofts Malware Removal Tool. Start Menu -> type "MRT" and enter to launch it. You could also run a couple of other free malware scanners. http://www.malwarebytes.org/ http://www.lavasoft.com/products/ad_aware_free.php http://www.safer-networking.org/en/download/ You can also download and install HijackThis and check out this forum -> http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/forum22.html they will help analyze the file and let you know what steps you should take. Good luck.
Ever seen "Drag me to hell"? The goat demon is after you... Apart from the anti virus scans, do you have any roommates that'd want to mess with you? Sounds like a good old fashioned prank to me
