Security Suite Virus information and FAQ

I've been infected by this virus not once but frickin twice, and this is one insidious piece of malware. I thought it be best to let the FAKKU! community know the inherent dangers of this virus. Avoid thepiratebay.org because it contains this virus, and I’m pretty sure that’s where I got it from.

When you get this virus, also known as "Windows Defender" virus, it usually pops up in a window that proclaims itself as, "Security Suite for Windows." Be warned that this is obviously fake even though the window will try to prove it to you that your computer is indeed infected with lots of viruses (yea right) by running a fake scan of sorts. So whatever you do, don't press the yes button to buy because all that will do is to access and steal your bank account #. I was not stupid enough to do that, but maybe others fell prey to it. Popups to weird sites will appear, your internet settings will be set to use on proxy server (changeable in the Connections tab in Tools of IE browser), and changes to your registry values amongst other things the security suite virus does. It also goes by other monikers like Trojan.zefarch or Virtumonde which are only components of the entire virus.

I literally woke up to find my computer with this Security Suite window in my face. Thankfully, (say all you want about Norton anti-virus, but the thing was still running when the shit hit the fan) I was able to run a virus scan by Norton as I could not access my Task Manager or Spybot. This took out the Trojan.zefarch file, which in turn let me the rundll32.exe processes to turn on Task Manager to find the malicious process running, which ended being some sort shdw.exe file. I opened the file location and manually deleted it. Of course, Norton Antivirus isn’t really good at detecting or removing viruses, so I turned to Malwarebytes to remove every last piece of virus I could find. I think my system is back to normal, but I can’t be sure without doing either a system restore or reinstall of the OS. (Which are the nuclear options I don’t want to engage in.)

For better information than what I can convey, visit these sites:

http://www.product-reviews.net/2010/08/12/security-suite-virus-removal-guide/
http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/virus-removal/remove-av-security-suite
http://www.virusremovalguru.com/?p=6257
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AV_Security_Suite

So that’s my story regarding this Security Suite virus, and I pray you guys never get infected by this piece of shit.

Any questions, comments, suggestions, or concerns, please share and discuss.

Thanks for the info.

I've gotten this virus too and it is brutal. My computer was down for weeks :(

Run malware bytes it removed that for my mom's computer.

I was actually running Maleware bytes when I got the virus. Several sources say that spy-ware doctor does the trick. Can't confirm that myself thogh. I got someone who knew what the fuck they where doing to remove the virus in question for me.

Soon as I read thepiratebay.org I knew it wasn't going to be pretty. I've heard some horror stories from that site.

They got awesome torrents I have to admit... but at the price of malware? It's not worth it.

>My face when I haven't had a virus on my computer since I turned 12.

I haven't had a virus on my computer since I got a Mac.

Dick waggling aside, I use piratebay all the damn time and I've never had a virus from there, nor indeed have I had a virus all the time I've been the sole user of a PC. My suggestion: check the torrent carefully, scan the contents before you open it (a lot of clients have this facility built-in), and don't use Norton. It's a dubiously effective resource whore.

Yeah but the mac viruses are hardrive killers, as in better just buy a new one.. pc viruses are wimp-ass pussies compare to the shit i seen.

I'm using utorrent 2.0.4. If that didn't cut it, I don't know what will because I'm never going back to tpb.org.