Win32 Removal for the Win32/adware.virtumonde Virus

computer5In an article written on a data recovery blog I monitor they give a good description of the Win32/adware.virtumonde virus. Although it appears that the are trying to promote their data recover tools at the end of the post, there is still some great details about this virus. I’ve never used any of their tools so I can’t recommend them but they do accurately state that a good virus cleaner suite can remove this virus. There are some tools on this site that I have recommended in the past for win32 removal and the virtumonde virus is very containable.

In a direct quote from their blog - “It is a very powerful virus which is said to completely destroy the data and software of your system by going through Java. It generally enters into your system using bogus BHO (Browser Helper Objects) and DLL files attached to Exploere.exe and Windlogon. The general symptom of this virus is the pop windows which appear while using Internet.

You may also notice pop up windows on your computer when you begin Windows, generally showing some error messages related to DLL files with bizarre names. You will notice that these files are in Windows/System32 folder.”

Go read the whole article.

  1. 2 Responses to “Win32 Removal for the Win32/adware.virtumonde Virus”

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    By Amir on Aug 29, 2008

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