Fix : Dangerous Virus Detected in C:

I recently fixed a machine that got infected by a virus that works like this: every time you click on a directory, an error message gets displayed that goes like this:









Attention, [name]! Some dangerous trojan horses detected in your system. Microsoft Windows XP files corrupted. This may lead to the destruction of important files in C:\WINDOWS. Download protection software now!


This error message is then followed by a dialog box. Clicking on it takes you to the website http://free-viruscan.com/id/4912933/4/1/ (WARNING: The website is a FAKE meant to deceive the visitor into downloading and executing a program that will create more virii. Do not interact with it).

After what seemed like hours of research I finally came upon the FixIEDef program developed by ShadowPuterDude of Malwareteks program developed by ShadowPuterDude of Malwareteks. Ran it, it was bye bye virus.