Assist please virus "Packed.Win32.Morphine.a"

elkiton



Joined: 15/03/2009
Posts: 514

Message Posted:
30/11/2009 13:30

Hi huys, genuine request for assitance here. Somehow this little sod has badly infested my #1 system over the weekend. It has disabled Norton and Windows restore and has invited its 36 friends to load cookies for very suspect websites. It coincided with a couple of things I did, a) opening a Picture file from a known normally clean source, and b) updating Norton to the latest revision (the one with the CPU / Memory monitors).

I have used my resident ERDNT to restore to before the weekend, however when I attempt to download a new copy of the latest norton, during the updates it becomes disabled and the virus appears again on the update's restart.

Has anyone experienced a similar problem, "Packed.Win32.Morphine.a" and got a fix for it, or know if there is a problem with the Norton site / loader / updater, like it contains a virus?

Please, if you are not familiar with the actual problem and solution, don't turn the thread into a sales pitch for AVG free etc etc

best rgdsTonyE

greengate8


Joined: 07/12/2008
Posts: 156

Message Posted:
30/11/2009 15:33

Hi - sorry to hear about the virus (nasty piece of work this one) - i had this one a while back.

try these two links



http://www.atribune.org/ccount/click.php?id=4

http://www.scanforfree.com/download/cryp-morphine-remover.php



download either of the programs (from thse sites) and run them accordingly - the first one worked for me

greengate8


Joined: 07/12/2008
Posts: 156

Message Posted:
30/11/2009 15:36

Hi again - forgot to mention - i had to run the program in 'safe mode' to ensure a complete removal

elkiton



Joined: 15/03/2009
Posts: 514

Message Posted:
30/11/2009 15:44

thank you greengate8 much appreciated, currently working through the registry looking for a specific location or two with "unusual" markers, if that does not fix it will try your suggestions next.

TonyE

elkiton



Joined: 15/03/2009
Posts: 514

Message Posted:
30/11/2009 15:46

Hi the Vundofix did not do it, must be the latest variant of the virus, probably too new...more and more I am convinced that the norton downloader played a part in this...trouble is that the virus has opened just about every port on the machine !

tonye

flightholiday


Joined: 19/07/2007
Posts: 3217

Message Posted:
30/11/2009 17:06

I am not sure I am not very computer wise but it might be worth trying to download AVG ( http://www.grisoft.com ) or something similar free and after updating running that in safe mode to try to clean your system.



Then trying to start your Norton from fresh - all I know is I don't feel comfortable with Norton as it tries to stop too many things that are not viruses which makes life hard for people like me who do not understand computers.



As it is one of the most sold it might also be aimed at by the virus makers.



Good luck to you Tony

lovingcyprus


Joined: 02/03/2007
Posts: 1272

Message Posted:
30/11/2009 18:28

Is this any good for you, take a look at the link below



http://www.pc1news.com/virus/alias-packed-win32-morphine-a-13163.html