Expert: Brian Benosky - 1/26/2011

Question
hello brian let me just thank you for your time. I keep getting the message "Your computer is being attacked by an Internet Virus. It could be a password-stealing attack, a trojan, dropper or similar." as well as a much more common "security warning-title Application cannot be executed. The file blah blah is infected. Do you want to activate your antivirus software now?" like every second i exit or choose no it keeps popping up. I've already downloaded and cleaned up my system with malwarebytes and superantispyware (which i could not get latest update for even on safe mode it wouldnt allow it) on safe mode with networking. Video has been disabled as well as audio thanks to the virus and i can't even open up the task mngr or certain programs. Would really appreciate help from anyone who knows about this virus.

Answer
Hi Dan

It sounds like you are infected with an aggressive rogue antispyware program.  Even though you have run Malwarebytes, the rogue is interfering with the removal process.  I would like for you to follow the steps on the following page:

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/virus-removal/remove-antivirus-soft

After completing all the steps and the Malwarebytes scan, copy and paste the scan log to me in a reply and give me an update on how the computer is running.

Brian