How to prevent the virus! (COMPUTERS ONLY)

[ymm0t22]

I got the virus. It shut down any processes I tried to open, including malwarebytes and control panel. No internet, either. It's obviously scareware: virus pretends that your computer is infected to scare you into buying a fake antivirus, when in reality the only virus is the fake antivirus itself. Nothing terribly harmful AFAIK.

How I fixed it:
-rebooted
-got to f8 menu
-started windows in "safe mode with networking" (should work with XP, vista (lol) and 7)
-downloaded a free scanner, malwarebytes is my favorite
-malwarebytes scanned for, found, and deleted the virus

You can also manually hunt down the files, but I don't really see a need to.

[Kwing]

I was wondering why this was showing up as an attack site. Luckily for me, NoScript blocked the site, which appears to be 79.96.120.199. I would assume this is the equivalent of procarting.ru

[Vav]

Firefox and Chrome will block JV, IE and Safari (Apple only) won't.

And just searching on Google will block you too.

But the virus doesn't seem to affect the browser, just the computer.

Actually Safari completely blocks JV. Even if you click "ignore warning" it won't let you on.
I'm using Firefox.
thanks

[yak404]

How I got rid of it:

Went full panic mode, downloaded avira anti-virus bootable CD, booted that used that to clean errything up.
Woke up, booted into windoes and ran 2 different anti-virus programs, I then ran spybot-search and destroy because I was being super paranoid.
I then ran ccleaner because I felt like being more paranoid.

[wertyuipo]

omg thx it worked

[wertyuipo]

OMG now it came back

[Andaya]

yeah
yesterday i got a virus in the temporary files folder
some .exe file
AVG i <3 u
btw i removed it
do you think it's related to the virus

[doubleth!nk]

Actually Safari completely blocks JV. Even if you click "ignore warning" it won't let you on.
I'm using Firefox.
thanks

Odd, Safari isn't blocking me at all....

Gah, all my info is wrong :s

[Vav]

Odd, Safari isn't blocking me at all....

Gah, all my info is wrong :s

Well this comes up...



It's only a warning, but clicking "ignore warning" doesn't do anything for some reason.

[aaaaaa123456789]

yeah
yesterday i got a virus in the temporary files folder
some .exe file
AVG i <3 u
btw i removed it
do you think it's related to the virus

It was the virus.

[ProClifo]

The virus is gone! This goes for a celebration.

[Glow In The Dark]

bleh

I was on using Jiggy 3 before anyone knew, I should really do a virus scan...

[ludwignar]

This is a threat to entire computer industry, therefore has to be tackled with much care. They have endangered many computer programs and business organizations. They have the capability of lurking and sometime they are not exactly identified easily.

[Kippe]

Jiggmin you nerde stop giving me trojans