Trojan:Win32/Alureon! WARNING!

[ajezard]

Ok, so i'm not sure if i've put this in the right place, but there's a new virus that mucks up the system and no virus scanner can detect it (yet), its called Trojan:Win32/Alureon!. Some symptoms are that you have no controll over your internet connection or no connection at all, you get an svchost error, it disables your sound device and you will only have classic mode. I'm not sure if there's any others but if you think you've got it follow these steps: Start up your computer in safe mode (press F8 on boot), go to C:\Windows\System32 and there should be a file called MRT, rename it to TRM and then run it, do a quick scan, when it finishes do a full scan, then reboot your computer normally. Hope this helps

 

[Barney Fife]

I think Alureon family is been known by most AV developers, and most of them are aware of it by now. (Though the Virus/Trojan) may mutilate, so far the characteristic signature still remains the same, and can still be detected by most AV suites.
Only a damn-ass Virus/Trojan will leave a single copy of itself in the %system% directory, so since the AV you already have did not detect a diddlysquat, I would advice you to get a decent AV, and do Full-Scan of your system.

Also, cut down the PTP and Torrents a notch: The usual place of residence of bad and evil stuff.

Good Luck.

 

[ajezard]

Actually, I scanned my computer with avg antivirus, norton antivirus, Spybot, Sophos antivirus, mcafee virusscan and bit-defender

 

[Barney Fife]

Though a decent AV would do this automatically; did you do any Registry cleaning manually?
This is because Registry System is where a Virus would attack and hookup the system at next start (You probably know that already.) AV must remove file and its entity in Registry.

... If you have scanned system (Full-Scan,) and those AV suited you have used found nothing, maybe the virus is cleaned and only the scars of the virus (Modified Settings) remain? Yes, a virus will leave your system scarred, just like a real virus would leave victims scarred.
Most of the time a virus will leave you in a state of paranoia and the only way to overcome that is a complete and utter re-installment of OS/User-Programs, and still you worry whether something is lurking in your User-Files (My Documents.) Nothing is wrong with that, You caught an intrusion and you want to be safe.

Good Luck.