Trojan Horse CRYPTIC.CBY what does it affect

It appears to come up in Adobe CS4 trial versions of Photoshop ,Dreamweaver, InDesign and Illustrator.

Try this before you reinstall...

Download, install and update Malwarebytes Antimalware and MS Security Essentials - both can be found on Filehippo.com

Remove AVG - these days, AVG, AVAST and other such free antivuruses have become almost useless, apart from the M$ Security Essentials...

If you each have separate accounts, boot into the administrative one and set the wife's account to Standard or General User... If hers is the Administrative one, set another account as Administrator and do the above to hers...

Boot into SAFE MODE and run Malwarebytes... Remove any nasties, and note where they are so you can manually delete if you have too.

Reboot back into the Administrative account and run the M$ product, again it will automatically remove the nasty...

Have found this to work 99% of the time and takes the time to download the anti viral products, install and update and the time to run them (20 minutes tops), compared to a reinstall with backup..

TIP: I tell this to everyone who gets an attack like this... Always set an account as Administrator that is password protected. Set all other accounts to Standard or General User. Only use the Administrative account as that, for updating the operating system and installing known good virus free programs. Most, if not all M$ viruses exploit the fact that most users do not do this, so it allows the exploit to affect the whole OS using Administrative privileges. However if it affects a non admin account, the buck in most cases 'stops there'....

I beg to differ and I am sure I have a lot of company...I would agree with AVG, but Avast free and it predecessors have not let me down over the last several years...nary a virus/trojan....some, I grant you are not worth the powder to blow them to h3ll, but there is absolutely nothing wrong with Avast free nor Avira free from what I can gather on many other computer help forums to which I belong

AVG has always been crap, but I would agree with Avast been a good one. I don't use it on any of my machines anymore, though, because of a bug with it (probly fixed in the newest version) where it would switch to hogging 100% of the resources on the machine and you'd have to uninstall it and reinstall it to correct. last time it happened for me I decided to try MSE (when it was fairly new) as an experiment, and thats worked so well for me I've rotated it onto all my machines when their Avast licenses have expired.

on MSE - nothing but, on all our comps at the moment ...

cheers ...

I post on another site... Virus within an an ad banner... AVG - fail lets in in, AVAST - fail lets it in, AVIRA - fail lets it in... All different systems, ALL failed to pick it up and ALL were free... M$ security essentials picked it up instantly and stopped it executing, Firefox banned the site immediately..
I followed my own advice to rid the three systems of the nasty and after each removal tested with M$ SE and it stopped the nasty...

I think with the 'free' AV products, they are getting sloppy on purpose to instigate the user to buy the full version.

I also found that AVG and AVAST, much like NORTON, McAFEE, BULLGUARD and Kaspersky seriously hit system performance. I personally won't use them at the moment... Like sRc, I tend to rotate them, but I am pretty careful... If you truly want to rid the virus scourge stick a Linux distro on rather than windows....

I hope I don't have to rotate again with this M$E (Comodo, AVG, AVAST, Antivir .... before) I am tired

cheers ...

I do have one laptop with MSE and have been trying it for a week or so...no grief so far...I may be swayed to put the other 2 laptops on it as well...all good things must come to an end I guess