Earlier this morning, I experienced something that I haven’t experienced for a very long time … I got infected by a nasty Trojan …. I couldn’t believe it !
The culprit was a Trojan is called Vundo, or at least that’s what McAffee told me when it caught and tried to remove it. McAffee failed, obviously, because as soon as I restart the computer, it found yet another one at the same place!
I believe the symptoms when one get infected are different from machine to machine, but on mine, I simply couldn’t connect to the Internet via any browsers, though my Tweetdeck (Twitter client) was still connected and I could still Tweet (at least).
Luckily I had other machine that is connected to the net, so I could look up for ways to remove the bloody thing.
A few Google searches later, I came across some Forum posts with topic indicating that many people had the same problem. After reading some of the solutions, at the end, in short what I needed to do is to download a small program called ComboFix and run it, make sure that no other Virus Scanner is running in the background, or any other programs in that matter.
On the first pass, ComboFix deleted some files that seem to be the ones that causing the problem. After a restart, I ran ComboFix again just to make sure. This time it didn’t report any more deletions. Restart again, and the moment of truth. I opened my Firefox, and Voila ! It worked ! Thank God.
What I really want to know now is, how the hell I got the Trojan from?
Hope this could help others that are having the same fate as me.
Good luck!
