Virtumonde spyware!

Last week my laptop got infected with Virtumonde spyware. It is the most annoying spyware that I have seen. This spyware gets hidden somewhere in the computer and becomes very very difficult to remove it. I tried to install hijackthis and superantispyware but both were not able to remove this stupid, annoying spyware. More info on this spyware can be found here.

Then after searching for sometime I found a video on youtube (see youtube can be helpful as well :-)) which can be found here. What the video suggested is to restore the system to a point earlier in time and that should take care of the spyware. I had no option but to give it a shot. I restored my system to a date 2 weeks in advance and voila! the spyware was gone. The browser stopped showing stupid ads and I was able to browse peacefully :-).

So if you get infected with this annoying spyware, try doing system restore. But do it at your own risk! :-)