Bogus driver virus

Search instead for. Did you mean:. Last reply by tgh Unsolved. Computer crashes with BSOD, internet search redirects to bogus website, driver devices fail to install, and windows update does not work - pretty sure infected. Any insite would be great. All forum topics Previous Topic Next Topic. Reply 1. Result: Absolutely Nothing!

So I did a search using Metacrawler and Half a dozen references to the Bogus driver. It turns out that it was not a virus at all. An Easter Egg is a hidden feature placed by programmers into software applications.

I further discovered that the only reliable way of disposing of the beastie - temporarily I'm afraid as it does tend to reappear every now and again - is to use regedit to remove the relevant entries from your registry.

But before you do that, please make a backup copy of your registry files system. As well as describing the problem, it takes you through the whole procedure for deleting the driver from your registry. What still puzzled me, though, was what had kicked the code into action?

I carried out a search on deja. There had indeed, but no information on trigger factors. And recent searches on Google Groups , which now hosts the Usenet archives, continues to have threads on the topic. Please enable JavaScript to watch this video.

Subscribe Now. Thank you i understand now. Share Your Thoughts Click to share your thoughts. If that does not work then use another computer to download the needed programs and drivers and transfer them to your machine on removable media.

These can be done in Safe Mode - repeatedly tap F8 as you boot however you should also run them in regular Windows when you can. Download malwarebytes and scan with it, run MRT, and add Prevx to be sure it is gone.

You should be getting this tool and its updates via Windows Updates - if needed you can download it here. Rob - Bicycle - Mark Twain said it right. How satisfied are you with this reply? Thanks for your feedback, it helps us improve the site. This site in other languages x.