OK, I am not sure what's going on with my system but in the last day both IE and Firefox have been bombarded by constant and intermittent popups that contain the address Sagipsul.com. I am a Firefox user by the way.
-I've noticed that I can no longer go to an earlier restore point
-I am not able to visit some websites through Google searches as the websites turn up blank
-My McAfee won't "fix" properly or update itself when it is prompted to do so
-I now notice that in text online, random words are highly and underlined and when I hover over them, they reveal floater popups for advertisements related to that word.
-I've done a lot of searching around online for any possible NAME to what this virus or infection might be and I don't think I have Vundo because I've searched for the related virus files and nothing shows up. Also tried Vundofix. So it must be something else which prompts this sagipsul.com popup and the other stuff that is going on.
-I've downloaded Hijackthis, I have Spybot - Search & Destroy, I am currently running an a manual scan from my McAfee security center (one without any current updated definitions due to what I mentioned above) ansd a scan from Malwarebytes.
Last night, I had to restart my computer several times because it kept crashing at the windows user login screen. Finally it rebotted and this is what's been going on since then. Before all of this, something tried to download itself earlier last night from rapidshare and then I saw a popup for a virus remover which I was careful to not click on by removing the popup through task manager. But the problems I mentioned above began anyway after this happened.
What I am curious about is what exactly it is that's infecting my computer this way? I've tried to find a name to put this by doing my own research online but haven't come up with anything that seems to fit yet. However I am noticing a lot of complaints from people in the last couple of days on various forums I've visited pertaining to this issue so it must be some virus that was released recently.
I am not able to follow the 8 steps completely because some things I am blocked from doing. I've updated Java, gotten and ran hijackthis, malwarebytes and cleaner however. I've also disabled third party cookies..
I would very much appreciate if anyone has a clue about what's going on and what I can do to solve this maddening problem.
I'll attach a .txt file as I am having problems copying and pasting my log here due to character limitations and misreading certain log info as links
Log attached
Well I seem to have found a name for this virus I have: Prunnet.exe
it installs various .dll files and just deleting the .exe file and all of its .dlls won't get rid of it. It reinstalls itself. I also found some odd programs located in my add/remove list...first one spotted was "Advertisement Services".
I am looking at ways I can completely remove this problem off of my computer.
-I've noticed that I can no longer go to an earlier restore point
-I am not able to visit some websites through Google searches as the websites turn up blank
-My McAfee won't "fix" properly or update itself when it is prompted to do so
-I now notice that in text online, random words are highly and underlined and when I hover over them, they reveal floater popups for advertisements related to that word.
-I've done a lot of searching around online for any possible NAME to what this virus or infection might be and I don't think I have Vundo because I've searched for the related virus files and nothing shows up. Also tried Vundofix. So it must be something else which prompts this sagipsul.com popup and the other stuff that is going on.
-I've downloaded Hijackthis, I have Spybot - Search & Destroy, I am currently running an a manual scan from my McAfee security center (one without any current updated definitions due to what I mentioned above) ansd a scan from Malwarebytes.
Last night, I had to restart my computer several times because it kept crashing at the windows user login screen. Finally it rebotted and this is what's been going on since then. Before all of this, something tried to download itself earlier last night from rapidshare and then I saw a popup for a virus remover which I was careful to not click on by removing the popup through task manager. But the problems I mentioned above began anyway after this happened.
What I am curious about is what exactly it is that's infecting my computer this way? I've tried to find a name to put this by doing my own research online but haven't come up with anything that seems to fit yet. However I am noticing a lot of complaints from people in the last couple of days on various forums I've visited pertaining to this issue so it must be some virus that was released recently.
I am not able to follow the 8 steps completely because some things I am blocked from doing. I've updated Java, gotten and ran hijackthis, malwarebytes and cleaner however. I've also disabled third party cookies..
I would very much appreciate if anyone has a clue about what's going on and what I can do to solve this maddening problem.
I'll attach a .txt file as I am having problems copying and pasting my log here due to character limitations and misreading certain log info as links
Log attached
Well I seem to have found a name for this virus I have: Prunnet.exe
it installs various .dll files and just deleting the .exe file and all of its .dlls won't get rid of it. It reinstalls itself. I also found some odd programs located in my add/remove list...first one spotted was "Advertisement Services".
I am looking at ways I can completely remove this problem off of my computer.