Yesterday, I was infected with probably the ugliest breed of virus in computer history (atleast, for me). What it did was nothing serious. I downloaded something off the internet and ran it. Spybot gave me a warning about a registry entry and I knew it was virus. I simple denied it. It again popped up after few minutes. It confirmed that it was a virus because no other software would prompt again for the registry entry. I denied again and no matter how many times I denied, it came back again after a few minutes. So, I knew it was a time for scanning. I scanned and deleted atleast 12 virus executables created in various system folders. I deleted them all. I think the virus injected itself into some system executables too. And I deleted those files too. Everything was going fine. The virus was listed as Win32/Kryptic.AA trojan and WIN32/Rootkit.Agent by my NOD32 AV.
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