Bit of a virus

# 1 23-06-2012 , 12:37 PM

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By bit, I mean bitch. AVG keeps popping up about every 5 minutes saying that %system32%services.exe is infected (generic trojan dropper, detected on open). The only option that comes up is to ignore the threat, because it's a vital system file (AVG has a "whitelist" of files it just won't touch). I ran a full system scan, hoping that it would come up with something, but it didn't even report finding the infection that it's been popping up for. I tried ComboFix, but aside from installing it does nothing, won't even give me a log file, unless I'm looking in the wrong place for it.

Any ideas, aside from formatting? I REALLY don't want to go through that right now user added image

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# 2 24-06-2012 , 02:20 AM

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Try this Steve, i have used it before, works well.

https://www.mcafee.com/us/downloads/f...e-stinger.aspx

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# 3 24-06-2012 , 03:46 AM

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Ugh, I hate AVG. It slows everything to a crawl, and isn't very effective. Do yourself a favor, and buy a retail antivirus. I recommend nod32 as it's extremely lightweight on system resources.

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# 4 24-06-2012 , 06:07 AM

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Im with ND....I had AVG for a while and it was ineffective. I ended up with N360, which is good but resource heavy and a bitch to turn some of its apps off. Good luck mate

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# 5 24-06-2012 , 06:42 AM

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try malware bytes and I find avast (free) to be sufficient

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# 6 24-06-2012 , 09:57 AM

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i am currently using Microsoft Security Essentials, it's well effective to me and for free, as well user added image

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# 7 24-06-2012 , 01:50 PM

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AVG works for me, and uses pretty much no resources, there's no need to change that.

Ran MBAM, it came up with 2 problems, but the main services.exe one is still popping up, about to try McAfee Stinger now

EDIT: Stinger also came up with nothing

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# 8 24-06-2012 , 03:33 PM

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The resource-usage is not the biggest problem. It's the ineffectiveness of detection and removal. (Eg. Why it let services.exe get infected in the first place) Does it give a virus name?

I found a post on another forum, and getting rid of AVG, and replacing it with Security Essentials fixed the problem.

https://forums.techguy.org/virus-othe...vices-exe.html

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# 9 24-06-2012 , 04:22 PM

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I ran ComboFix again and it seems to have fixed it.

The main reason I don't want to switch from AVG is that I'm used to it, and it doesn't hassle me. Every other A/v I've had constantly harassed me to update/scan/go out of my way to do something that should be automated. The only time I've had issues with AVG is when a system file is infected, which I kind of like, because I know it won't just destroy Windows like a mad man

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