It has been years since my last time having virus on my laptop and today is going to be the first time after more than 4 or 5 years when I was still using Windows XP or Vista.
And this time I got this damn virus called CleanThis. I got this when I was downloading video converter for converting SWF file to other video formats.
Clean This or also known as the CleanThis virus is believed to be another variant of widely-spread rogue application called Think Point. Clean This will be introduced as a real anti-virus application on web sites that were created for promotional purposes. An associated Trojan is also propagated earlier to infect web sites and build them to automatically run a virus scan on visitors computer. This online scan will provide fake detection and advise users to download and install a copy of Clean This program. Innocent users may not easily identify it as a threat because it will pretend to care for the system and was created to have a pleasant graphical user interface. Most of all it may turn out that it was part of the Windows operating system.
Victims may suffer from obstruction in using the PC when Clean This virus starts to display excessive alerts and taskbar warning messages. It will also block any programs from running and declared that the file is infected. An advise to clean the computer will constantly pop-up, if executed, a new browser window will open and suggest to buy the registration key of Clean This by paying using credit card information. Don’t get deceived by this rogue application, start scanning the computer with the recommended security application below. This was known to remove any forms of malicious software including Clean This virus.
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Now here is how to remove this annoying virus.
For Windows XP Computers:
C:Documents and Settings[User Name]Application Datagog.exe
C:Documents and Settings[User Name]Application Data[SET OF RANDOM CHARACTERS].bat
C:Documents and Settings[User Name]DesktopCleanThis.lnk
C:Documents and Settings[User Name]Start MenuProgramsCleanThis.lnk
For Windows Vista and Windows 7 Computers:
C:Users[User Name]AppDataRoaminggog.exe
C:Users[User Name]AppDataRoaming[SET OF RANDOM CHARACTERS].bat
C:Users[User Name]DesktopCleanThis.lnk
C:Users[User Name]Start MenuProgramsCleanThis.lnk
Then go remove the entries it created on your Windows registry
Open Windows registry edit by going to Start > Run and type regedit. Look for and delete the following entries/values:
HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindows NTCurrentVersionWinlogon “Shell = “%AppData%gog.exe”
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