Avast Update to Remove 'Darksma' ?

[mauserme]

Glad its cleared up.

There are new variants of this malware almost daily right now.  Two more detections were just added in today's avast! update so I'm sure we'll be seeing more of this.

Welcome to the forum - and let us know if you need any more help.

[polonus]

Hi jojo222,

Yep, DrWeb has a good update rate, it is one of my non-resident scanners as well. And of course on my browser I have the DrWeb browser av hyperlink scanner plug-in for IE, FF or Opera. But caution as sometimes because of heuristic scanning DrWeb can come up with the occasional FP, so always check at Jotti before taking a decision.

polonus

[Lisandro]

Out of 8 (EIGHT) antivirus/ spyware products, only 2 picked up this variation of Darksma, and only ONE was able to successfully remove it.

This clearly shows how important are update rates and speed nowadays...

[polonus]

Hi Tech,

Good Tech, you always coming up with the right conclusion. Some can do it right, Kaspersky nr 1, DrWeb nr.2, ClamWinFree also good update rate. Respect for Petersburgi.

polonus

[jojo222]

I decided to come back and list the software that helped me. Maybe somebody else has a similar problem and my list could guide them in the right direction.

Software that helped me the most: (The ones in bold are the only ones that detected Darksma)

1) Dr. Web (The only one that successfully removed the virus).
2) AOL Spyware Protection (If it wasn't for the constant warnings from AOL SP telling me I had Darksma, I never would of known my PC had a virus. I used the Paid for/ Updated version. I say paid for/ updated because I am aware that a free version is available, but I don't know how effective it is).
3) Trojan Hunter 4.6 (This tool removed quite a number of trojans).
4) SUPER Anti Spyware Professional
5) Avast 4.7 Professional
6) Spy Sweeper 5.3
7) Ad-Aware SE Personal
8 ) Bazooka Spyware Remover 1.13.03 (The least effective. This was the FIRST NEW program I used to try and remove the virus, but it detected nothing).