New virus brought in today

[Seven Spades]

and what has any if this to do with yachting?

 

[Heckler]

and what has any if this to do with yachting?

Scuttlebutt, the place on the ship where peeps would go for a drink and some gosssip and a chat, a bit like the watercooler in an office. So look at the title of this thread!
STU

 

[Tommyrot]

Had another variant in today, similar but with a different exe file called pc.exe. Again difficult to get at BUT this time used the task manager, ctrl-alt-del. Noticed that there was a file called pc.exe "flickering" in the process pane. I stopped that process and it then went to the blank desktop. This proved that it was that producing the "shell" I then went to "new task run" n the task manager, typed in cmd to get a dos prompt shell. I then ran dir /s pc.exe which showed the path to the file. I then drilled down to the directory which was called pc, I then typed del pc.exe. Poof! that broke the horrible thing so that when I restarted I had the desktop so that I could load malwarebytes, ccleaner and superantispyware. Ran all three of those and bingo 27 more lurgies got rid of and a clean machine!
Stu

Just finished sorting out the same thing on my daughter's PC, much easier after reading this thread thanks!

After getting the task manager up and ending "pc.exe" I ran dir /s pc.exe as instructed and found the file. Didn't know what you meant by "drilling down".
I started "msconfig" from the task manager, unchecked endless **** accumulated over the last 12 months and restarted, still had the same problem.....

Tried to use the ubcd as suggested but couldn't get the PC to boot from it, even after checking in the bios that "boot from cd" was first, the 2 CD/DVD drives were not being picked up. (This might be caused by the "pc.exe" **** as it worked later).

Used task manager to stop the prog again, but this time typed in "explorer" (a shot in the dark...) instead of msconfig, desktop came back to life!
Went to the "PC" folder (in the same place as you found it) and found an "uninstall" icon, not expecting it to work I gave it a shot anyway - it did work!
Ran Malwarebytes and cleared out some more nasties and went home to start on a bottle of Jura.

Cant believe this thing filters out the word c r a p!

 

[Fire99]

As a matter of interest to those a bit hot on the delete button. Don't mistake ccc.exe as a problem since that is an ATI control centre executable and is perfectly normal.

 

[Heckler]

Just finished sorting out the same thing on my daughter's PC, much easier after reading this thread thanks!

After getting the task manager up and ending "pc.exe" I ran dir /s pc.exe as instructed and found the file. Didn't know what you meant by "drilling down".
I started "msconfig" from the task manager, unchecked endless **** accumulated over the last 12 months and restarted, still had the same problem.....

Tried to use the ubcd as suggested but couldn't get the PC to boot from it, even after checking in the bios that "boot from cd" was first, the 2 CD/DVD drives were not being picked up. (This might be caused by the "pc.exe" **** as it worked later).

Used task manager to stop the prog again, but this time typed in "explorer" (a shot in the dark...) instead of msconfig, desktop came back to life!
Went to the "PC" folder (in the same place as you found it) and found an "uninstall" icon, not expecting it to work I gave it a shot anyway - it did work!
Ran Malwarebytes and cleared out some more nasties and went home to start on a bottle of Jura.

Cant believe this thing filters out the word c r a p!

Sorry about the drilling down, at the command line I was using cd to get to the folder so that I could "see" the folder pc so that I could do del pc.exe
Your tip to type explorer on the command line is good, cause thats all we wanted to do was to get a gui to get at the orrible ****e
Stu