Infostealer Virus

[djmack85]

Hi

I keep getting a Norton Antivirus alert saying it has found and deleted a virus called infostealer. when I click ok it comes back a few seconds later.

i also suffereing from pop-ups and system unstability i.e. everything disappearing from the screen and having to restart the computer.

Can anybody help with this problem?

Thanks

David

 

[OrthoDocSoft]

Feel your pain. Had the same infostealer alert pop up on my Norton Internet security (insecurity?) as well. I thought something like Webroot's Spy Sweeper would do the trick; bought it and it did very little. Then I found this article and started going through it:

http://wiki.castlecops.com/Malware_Removal_and_Prevention:_Introduction

The best thing I did (which got rid of the infostealer alerts) was to run PandaSoftware's Active Scan (

http://www.pandasoftware.com),

but I also downloaded and ran the other freeware programs as suggested in the article. I stopped just short of running any trojan-ware products, since I stopped getting the warnings.

I think you would benefit greatly from this. Sounds like you might be fairly heavily infected. Good luck.

Ortho