The worst virus I ever encountered was this bastard addware/spyware (virus) called Virtumonde. This thing resisted virus scanners, spyware scanners, online scanners, pretty much everything. It hijacked my browser, changed my home page, restricted me from going to websites that it didn't like (like McAffee.com and Symantic.com and a ton of others). It also opened up tons of pop up adds... so much that it would bog down the computer to the point where running any kind of antivirus/spyware removal program would take all day just to get halfway through.
I thought I was going to have to go through the trouble of doing a system restore which was complicated that my hard drives are pretty full of stuff that I want to keep backed up and my external hard drive was not available as it had fried when I was trying to back everything up a few days prior.
Ironically, I owe the cleaning of the computer to Micro$oft. I was able to get to their Live One Care page which has an online scanner/computer fixeruper on the page. I ran that and it succeded where all the other virus/spy/addware programs failed. It completely killed the thing, plus it made the computer run faster than it ever ran before.
I dislike anything Micro$oft, but this thing actually worked.
If I ever catch the b'tard who wrote Virtumonde, lets just say... that some unpleasant things are going to happen to him.
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