oh my but that’s a massive pain in the buttocks. i’m hoping that one of you computer literate types will be able to post a more coherent sort than what i’ve had to trawl thru this last two hours. i’ve sort of killed it by going thru regedit and doing a restore but as yet i’m unconvinced it’s actually dead.

and don’t get me started on virgin ‘support’

i’m off out on my bike to destress. **** computers…..

http://www.singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/computer-has-a-virus-help

Safe mode
rkill
malwarebytes in ‘quick’ mode
reboot to normal mode
rkill
malwarebytes in ‘full’ mode

You may have to rename rkill / mbam to get them to run.

malwarebytes killed it for me.

follow their instructions for loading it onto a memory stick on another machine, boot infected machine in safe mode and run it, no more virus.

If your anti-virus is blocked from doing updates and/or accessing internet sites has been blocked/redirected then download the following from Windows Safe Mode with Networking and run it

http://support.kaspersky.com/viruses/solutions?qid=208280684

It resolves hijacked system files which System Tool modifies to block AV updates etc. Running this in conjunction with MBAM etc should sort it.

Worth downloading/running periodically anyway even if you have no perceived issue.

http://www.singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/bldy-computer-virus

I had this, tried all of the above but the only thing that worked was as per my first post in the thread above. Good luck.

Cougar you must have the list on clipboard now to save time, seems very common at the moment the system tool virus.

It’s -really- common at the moment, not quite sure why there’s been a sudden explosion.

Stumbled across this just now whilst looking for something else,

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/virus-removal/remove-system-tool

Very good guide, only thing I’d change is to skip step 23 – it’s not necessary as Windows should replace the file automatically.