How Did System Tools 2011 Infect My Computer?

[The_Kitchen_Guy]

My system was infected with a nasty trojan called System Tools 2001.

Be wary of this one - I'm not sure how it's transmitted or how it got past my firewall, but it did, and it really, really screwed things up.

System Tools 2011 looks like a virus scanner/virus repair program but it's actually an infection that is designed to con you into providing your credit card info, which is a bad move.

I got it fixed, but it wasn't easy, and it wasn't cheap.

 

[NooraK]

Thanks for the warning!

 

[minirottie]

My husband brought home a friend's laptop Saturday night with the same virus. I got it cleaned up yesterday, though I don't think her infection was as bad as it could have been.

 

[The_Kitchen_Guy]

I'd be willing to bet, and this is not a reflection on you, that it is still infected. That *&^#@! trojan horse is insidious. If you don't have every last shard of it cleaned up, it will reawaken and reinstall itself.

 

[Melissa78]

I've had the same virus only it was 2010 version. I thought I lost everything. It was quite difficult to get rid of b/c it disabled my task mgr and kept reproducing itself. Normally I can fix them but not that one.

 

[heather223]

My husband got something like that months ago and it took forever for me to get rid of it!! It just kept coming back!