New "parasite": a virus blocking social networks

The Internet is big, and bad, however, as well as good, there are many. One of the most unpleasant phenomena is all sorts of viruses. If "lucky" to pick up something serious, then problems can arise considerable: up to loss of important personal information, as well as system data and the fall of the OS. This time, one of the "geniuses of computer parasitism" invented and launched into the World Wide Web a virus blocking social networks. How does it work and is there a "medicine" from it? We will try to explain this in detail in this article.

Unexpected turn

It appears very curious. When you try to log into your account, the user receives a message with the following meaning: "Your page was hacked and spam is sent from it." In order to unlock, you must enter your mobile number with the purpose of SMS activation or, more interestingly, pay access to your account in social. Network. "In Contact", "Classmates", "Facebook" and some other resources have already fully experienced the "fun" of this virus.

Description of the virus program

In fact, there was probably no hacking. The fact is that the virus blocking social networks only mimics the addresses of the specified sites, redirecting users from real resources to web pages with the corresponding warning message.

It should be noted that the Trojan works very cleverly, or rather, cleverly. The program, created by attackers, intercepts the DNS signal in popular browsers and gives the answer in the form of an incorrect IP address of the resource. Thus, trying to go to your page in the social network. Network, the user gets completely to another place. But it sees the correct URL in the address bar . What is striking is that the virus blocking social networks blocks access to most of the anti-virus companies' websites. In addition, many can not even access the Microsoft server. In general, the functionality of this Trojan is the same.

How does the virus work?

The Trojan runs on the infected computer and hides its copy, encrypted as a file with an arbitrary extension and name, into one of the system folders. Then it disables the protection of Windows OS and performs a number of other actions (modifies the DLL library, drivers, etc.) in order to increase its privileges in your operating system.

Method of struggle

In general, the virus is very smart. But is there any means against it? Is it possible to remove the virus "VKontakte", "Classmates" and other resources on their own?

Yes, you can do something. Here is an instruction on the actions that need to be taken.

1. In the Windows system folder (drive C), we find the driver package and open the Hosts file using notepad.
2. You will see the text contained in the file. Scroll to the bottom of the document. The last line of it should end with the word "localhost". Delete all records that are below it (they may contain references to social networks known to us).
3. Now restart the computer and "scan" the C drive with the antivirus.

That's all, the virus blocking social networks is defeated. Now try again to log into your account: the page should open correctly, and all the data on it will be in the state in which they were before the "attack" of the cunning "social" parasite.