[SGVLUG] AV Guard Virus

[Robert Leyva]

For the M$ boxes, you might want to manually load clamwin into a USB jump
drive, then copy to the infected box, then as
_administrator_and_in_safe_mode_, try to have clamwin delete or quarantine
what it finds.

This AV-nasty thing might even have some removal tools people have made.

For the linux box that won't fire up, perhaps you can pull the bios
battery for, say 15min, then put back in, which will hopefully make the
bios go back to factory default? Then I'd perhaps try chkrootkit, and
clamav.

> Could use a little advice myself; apologies for the length of the comment.
>
>
> display "AV Guard," purporting to be an anti-virus program that had
> identified malware on our system that it could remove (for a fee).  Of
> course, AV Guard is itself a virus.
>

>
> I'm left with 3 questions:
> 1)  How can this virus hose the BIOS so one machine will not boot, and
> another appears to have a failed power supply.
> 2)  Is there any way to revive my laptop, short of replacing the mother
> board?
> 3)  Any of you guys need a nearly new battery for an Acer Extensa 1000?
>


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Robert Leyva
mrflash818 at geophile.net