i'm not a programer or anything. just a ordinary pc user
and this is my issue:
i got this zip file from a friend on the msn. with the name img0012 (something like that).
i accepted it and decompressed it. it was an exe file in MSDOS and i opened it.
nothing happened, but my msn started to open and close all my contacts windows and started sending this same file to my contacts. so i closed my msn process with ctrl+alt+supr and restart windows in safe mode to run my avast antivirus and erase the virus.
this are the name of the infected files it found:
WIN32: Downloader-KK [trj]
WIN32: BHO-GI
WIN32: BHO-GO
WIN32: Virtumonde-CT (adw)
after that i thought my pc was safe again so i restarted windows in the normal way and opened my msn to check if it was all ok. the thing is that this virus has been changing my password everytime i try to change it.
and after i change it and i'm on msn it happens the same thing with the contacts windows and all that.
obviously, the trojan (or whatever it is) is still on my computer.
my questions are:
1.dose infected files i found: what kind of virus are they and can you give me information about them?
2.what can i do? (obviously)
3.do you know of any free antivirus better than avast that i can download??
thanks to all the people that respond this questions!
and this is my issue:
i got this zip file from a friend on the msn. with the name img0012 (something like that).
i accepted it and decompressed it. it was an exe file in MSDOS and i opened it.
nothing happened, but my msn started to open and close all my contacts windows and started sending this same file to my contacts. so i closed my msn process with ctrl+alt+supr and restart windows in safe mode to run my avast antivirus and erase the virus.
this are the name of the infected files it found:
WIN32: Downloader-KK [trj]
WIN32: BHO-GI
WIN32: BHO-GO
WIN32: Virtumonde-CT (adw)
after that i thought my pc was safe again so i restarted windows in the normal way and opened my msn to check if it was all ok. the thing is that this virus has been changing my password everytime i try to change it.
and after i change it and i'm on msn it happens the same thing with the contacts windows and all that.
obviously, the trojan (or whatever it is) is still on my computer.
my questions are:
1.dose infected files i found: what kind of virus are they and can you give me information about them?
2.what can i do? (obviously)
3.do you know of any free antivirus better than avast that i can download??
thanks to all the people that respond this questions!