So I've been seeing this file pop up on several sites I visit, mostly S.A. and Okcupid.
I sure as fuck don't want to open this thing, and I've hit my PC twice with AVG free and MalwareBytes. One pass removed some Trojans. I still see this download pop up on occasion, but repeat scans show diddly squat. Am I in the clear?
I've heard a lot of contradictory stuff on this, some say it's a legit ad script, others that it's malware. I don't have million dollar anti-virus, nor the time to hunt this shit down. It really seems to be centered on forums. I've had no brower hijacks, slow downs, instability or massed pop-ups so I'm hoping it's not too bad.
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Try running TDSSKiller and combofix (search for them).
If you don't get a result with TDSSKiller or Combofix, it's time to warm up the orbital lasers and take it down to bedrock. You'll have to be VERY thorough with the nuke, I've heard of rootkits hanging on in the most irritating places.
Honestly, I'd just nuke it, myself. Only way to be sure.
I can has cheezburger, yes?
AVG is free, but it hates Combofix like nothing else. I only use it as a last resort. Like I said, it was flagged as malware but I know it's not.
I don't want to frag everything for a problem I may not have. My question was more if Loadus.exelator was some sort of legit ad script or not. I've seen conflicting information through google. Some say it's harmless, some say it's not.
And from my own experience, it takes less time to reformat than it does it remove some rootkits. My wife's computer had one a week ago, and after several tries with various programs, I gave up and formatted.
Nothing found it, and a system restore did nothing. She would get redirects every other site she tried, resets, etc. The system even shut itself down twice while I was burning all her photos to a DVD before the format. Nasty buggers.