Feb
21
W32/Virut.Gen infected my PC!!
Recently my PC was infected by a deadly virus, actually not so deadly enough, just said that to lay stress on the topic. The virus was detected as W32/Virut.Gen (a generic detection for the W32/Virut family of polymorphic, entry point obscuring (EPO) file infectors with IRC bot functionality) by my antivirus Avira Antivir Personal Edition (which is actually free thats why I’m using it instead of downloading cracked versions of well known anti-viruses as I hate piracy 
). Till date it has detected every virus (even if it wasn’t one ) which came in contact with my PC but yesterday was that unfortunate day when I had turned it off for some dire reasons and thanks to this generous virus the antivirus program itself got infected.
As far as McAfee claims, this virus when executed injects it’s code into running processes and open a backdoor on compromised machine at port 80 (HTTP) but uses it for IRC communication. So, now I know what happened to my PC as my antivirus was detecting every running EXE file as a virus.
So it started the infecting process in such a manner that every drive had some new EXE files which my infected (dying) antivirus was still detecting but wasn’t able to cure. My poor PC was yelping for help and all I could do was Format it to save other files, some of which I later found out were infected as well.
Now it’s up and running and no virus threat detected so far by the 2nd full system scan since morning (800 GB takes a lot of time to scan). Hope none comes up later as well.
