Hello All,
I tried this fix but, I still have this problem on my Win 7 Professional PC. I am not an OS or Internet wizard & I'm confused but. Can anyone tell me...
1) Is this actually a virus?
2) If affirmative, what exactly is the perceived threat?
3) How come only Avast is affected? ie. is it an Avast problem?
4) How come none of the other AV scans pick it up?
5) Would it be a safe assumption that if I change my AV program to say... Norton, I would be just as well protected as any other Norton user?
Any insight appreciated.
Geoff Pearson
Hi gpearson,
As this infection was new to essexboy and others,it did take a little more time to get a successful repair and fix here.
As for point #5, at the time this thread was started, only Avast! was able to detect this infection. You can, of course, remove Avast!, and thus not get alerts anymore, but the infection will still remain on your system. I would choose to get the infection cleared first, and then go and get another a/v if that is what I thought was best.
If you wish to get help here for this, please start your own topic in this section by going to "New Topic" button upper right. Please see and read
http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=53253.0 and attach all logs produced by Malwarebytes, OTL, and aswMBR in your new topic.
As malware is changed, in some cases almost hourly, this infection may not be exactly the same as the one essexboy dealt with here, and thus the repair may/may not work for you. Fixes made by essexboy and others are always custom-made only for the system affected; attempting to repair using the custom fix can damage your system.
Once the logs are posted, please do not make any changes to your system other than those requested by the malware expert assisting you. This will make cleaning and repairing your system much easier, and at far lower risk of system damage than otherwise.
Quote from essexboy, page 7, same thread as this one:
This is definitely something new, it appears to be an attempt at the man in the middle type malware (only used by Flame so far)
But thanks to your perseverence and assistance I may now be able to fix this in just two or three posts, so you have been a great help
Let me know tomorrow if it is still OK and then I will remove all the rubbish I have put on your system
Once again Thanks
So someone is in the middle between you and the internet, possibly intercepting your data transfers, user passwords, etc.