Vista Guardian may have murderd my pc in clold blood.

[savethetunas@gmail.com]

Same story as everyone else. I was playing a match of LoL when all of a sudden I get minimized and some alerts pop up saying that my pc is infected. I imediatly knew this was spyware, so I tried to run my anti virus and spyware tools, along with windows defender. Nothing was detected and everytime I tired to run windows defender, Vista guardian would pop up, as if it had taken over that program.

   I found this site, and followed the removal instructions, including making the notepad text file and naming it fix.exe, and appling the change to my registry. I then downloaded and ran malwayrebytes which detected and removed the program.

  So I went back to play another game of LoL, about 30 minutes into the match, it happened again, the screen minimized and the alerts came back. I repeated the steps again, making the registry change, except this time I ran a full system scan instead of a quick scan in malwarebytes. It was getting larte, so I decited to sleep for a little bit while the program scanned my pc.

  A few hours later I awoke and my screen was black, the indicator light on the monitor was yellow instead of green, indicating no signal. I turned the computer off, and when it restarted I heard three relitivly loud beeping sounds, and nothing on the screen, still no signal. So I let the computer sit for a few hours, then started it up again. The three beeps were gone, but still no signal to my monitor. I tried plugging the monitor into the motherboard instead of the video card, but same story, no signal.

   I am pretty sure my computer is, for lack of a better word, kaput. But, I am still curious and would like to atleast learn somehting from this.

  Whats wrong with the pc that is causing no signal? What could have caused it? Is there a way to fix it? Is the harddrive,cpu etc. still useable?

  Thanks for your time, have a good one.

Adam.

[Eddie]

Hello savingthetunas@gmail.com

Dont worry your computer is not screwed. Heres how I personally got rid of it. I booted my system in safe mode w/ Networking so I could get to this site for the command. Ok next open your taskmanager go to processes and kill av.exe. AV.EXE is the evil bug thats giving you all the pop ups and what not after you kill the process dont x out taskmanager and go to Run type command and click OK. Type notepad as shown in the cmd and press Enter. Copy and past the following text into Notepad:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[-HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\.exe\shell\open\command]
[-HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\secfile\shell\open\command]
[-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.exe\shell\open\command]

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.exe]
@="exefile"
"Content Type"="application/x-msdownload"

[-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\secfile]
From the W all the way to the ]
Now  Save file as "exefix.reg" (without quotation-marks) to your Desktop.
NOTE: choose Save as type: All files
5. Double-click to open exefix.reg. Click "Yes" for Registry Editor prompt window.

Now that will allow you to run your anti spyware. If you dont get anything please post back here thanks.