AVG users

In the past month, a new Trojan has made its way onto the scene. It is called the Trojan Flooder.AKE and it has been found to mostly affect AVG users. There are a couple of symptoms with this that you can look out for. First of all, an alert box will pop up on your screen, telling you about a new threat found on your computer and that you should "heal it now." If you do that, your computer will restart, but that same message will still be there. Your computer will then be stuck in a loop of "flooding."



As I said, this mainly only affects AVG users, so if you use AVG for your antivirus program, be on the look out for this. It may pop up on your screen at any time, so just ignore it and you should be just fine. Always stay safe!





HOWEVER, IT'S A BUG IN AVG ! IT'S NOT A VIRUS IT'S A BUG IN AVG. ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS UNINSTALL AVG UNDER SAFE MODE AND RESTART !



Solution No.1:

1. Boot your computer to Safe mode. Power on (or restart) your computer, keep pressing F8 key until the Startup menu appears and choose "Windows in Safe Mode".



2. Uninstall AVG through the control panel "Add or Remove Programs" applet.



3. Reboot.



Solution No.2:

1. Boot your computer to Safe mode. Power on (or restart) your computer, keep pressing F8 key until the Startup menu appears and choose "Windows in Safe Mode".



2. In the Windows Safe mode, navigate to following folder:



C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\



3. Rename rename the following files to avoid further deleting of "winlogon.exe".



AVGCLEAN.SYS -> AVGCLEAN.SY_

AVGRSXP.SYS -> AVGRSXP.SY_



4. Launch Registry Editor (regedit.exe) and remove the "__delete" value in the right pane from this key:



HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\Curr...



5. Restart the computer back to Windows normal mode



6. Update your AVG program to latest virus base version. Launch AVG or open AVG Control Center and press F9 key to update your AVG.



7. Then rename the SYS files back to their original names



AVGCLEAN.SY_ -> AVGCLEAN.SYS

AVGRSXP.SY_ -> AVGRSXP.SYS



8. Restart your computer for to get AVG Resident shield loaded again



Solution No.3:

If either of the above solutions do not work, you will have to reinstall your Windows operating system.