Do I still have a virus? [Moneypak scam]

The moneypak virus is the trojan that says the FBI is investigating your PC and to gives you instructions to deposit $200 via a Moneypak card to access your PC again (for 24 hours).

I think I got rid of it by going to safe mode (no internet connection) and only having 1 account I transferred my small # of files to a flash drive, and created a brand new account in Safe Mode and deleted the old one.

I'm 30 min in on this new account and no f### screen has popped up.So do I still have the virus? And if so how do I get rid of it?

Removing a user account does not mean you cleaned your machine of a virus. Download an antivirus. There's plenty of free ones out there.

virus scan your computer.

You should probably reformat.

Malewarebytes

@ThunderSlash said:

You should probably reformat.

@xdaknightx69 said:

@ThunderSlash said:

You should probably reformat.

This is the equivalent of nuking it from orbit. (It's the only way to be sure).

You actually may have eliminated this specific one. Apparently it's easy to remove. However, you will want to get your self some anti-virus/anti-spyware software. If you don't have one right now, and don't want to pay there are many, many good freeware solutions.

I found some information on it, and found this video hopefully this will help others with avoiding this scam and removing this crap.

Lol, switching user accounts doesn't trick a virus into submission. Here's some security software you can download for free.

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows/products/security-essentials

http://www.malwarebytes.org/

Thanks guys much appreciated.

Another thing you can try doing is if you have a previous restore point roll back your machine to a point before the time you may have got the trojan. If you don't have a previous restore point do what other people have suggested and run malwarebytes full scan in safe mode. If you check online their are some sites that will show you what .exe you need to delete and what registry lines you need to erase from your computer in order to get rid of it completely. Only do the latter if you have a good understanding of computers.

- Do not reformat your harddrive, unless its your last resort. I got the same trojan and the rolling back to a previous system restore point along with running malewarebytes in safe mode worked for me.