Well, I may be overly exaggerated the title as I want to make a quick post about this virus/spyware/malware. Just now I was attacked by this virus after opening this website (owned by our company), I noticed the website took way longer than usual. Then after caching some files, a jpg image was detected as a threat by AVG Free Edition. I will post some images later on (I’m felt sleepy after cleaning up the threat :D ) After being infected by this infected image from the website while caching. My internet browsing began relatively slow, then after some time while scanning more of the infection in my harddrive it seems it has already populate in my system files. AVG Free Edition failed to finish the task, now it was all up to me.

Checking in w/ the handy “hijackthis” I scanned my boot infos, registry, et cetera… I didn’t found any. Now my internet browsing was cut off. I still have my IM services up and running, chatting a buddy of here in the office. I ask and warned him don’t open this website, but it seems too late as I was now in the same scenario as him yesterday.

Of course, I made some research in the internet but hey! I forgot, no browsing hahaha
Firefox, Chrome, and IE … all white pages. I’ve tried rebooting and still no luck. This is the time where I dug deeper in the system files.

A forum in avast.com gave me ideas for the malicious files. All of them recently experienced this nasty virus just on the month of August.

With the help of procxp, hijackthis, regedit, msconfig and the good `ol shift-delete (perma delete). I’ve manage to kill the virus’ doing and now I’m able to write this article. Took me less 1 hour to go back online, a piece of advice? Don’t panic when Win32:Vitro comes knocking on your open ports :)