Help in removing virus
 

Two days ago, I found out that my PC's drives might have problems. Usually double-click opens drive all drives, but now a double-click opens them in a new window. Downloads are also getting slow.

Quite curious of something wrong, I scanned my PC (my antivirus is Avast) to find out viruses. I thought they were gone until where I rebooted the PC, rescanned only to find out some viruses persisted there. The viruses disguise themselves as g8k.exe and autorun.inf.

I searched clues on the Internet to remove these bastards. Finally, some webpages suggested malware remover. I downloaded Malwarebit (or something like that) and SpyBot at instant and utilised them. All of them was destroyed, but they reappear everytime I turn on the computer. Everytime I scan the disk drives, they got quarantined and every reboot, they seem to be gone, but they come back in about two hours or so.

Worse than that is the antivirus only detect these viruses on C:, while same viruses on E: are spared. And even worse, the antivirus program and malware removers didn't detect g8k.exe.

What should I do?

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Boot into Safe Mode (press F8 like a maniac while your computer is starting up) before disinfecting your computer with the tools at hand.

And make sure to do a thorough scanning of your startup items/services before rebooting. Easiest way to view these are with Start > Run > Msconfig

Can you direct me how to do this? I don't quite understand these kind of stuffs --'

Okay. Start > Run > msconfig

You will see the System Configuration Utility pop up.

Look at the tab called "Services" (hide all Microsoft Services) and "Startup".

Disable any suspicious startup items. The following Startup items are typically safe - but if you are unsure about it, do a Google search on the name of the item (e.g. TPSHOCKS.EXE):

Microsoft IME components: IMPJMIG, IMEKRMIG, IMSCINST, TINTSETP
Windows Components: CTFMON
Sun Java: JUSCHED
Adobe Acrobat: ACROTRAY
Drivers: NWIZ, SMAX4PNP

As for Services, you can do the same with Google. Use your best judgment in whether such services are authorized or not.

Please note that this should be your last stop, after booting in safe mode and running all the virus killers you have.

I vote the virus for best new member in 09.

Anything that might keep Ozma off the internet for a while is the best something.

You got a nice new one. Its only been identified out in the wild for a couple of days. This site:

G8k.exe (G8k) Trojan Virus File Information | Virus Removal Guru

has several links that may help you learn more about the virus and find tools to get rid of it as well as a user base of advice.

Wow, so g8k.exe is the virus itself, not a disguise...I'm astonished.

No wonder neither of the programs could detect it...it's fresh from the oven.