Who or what is GEMA?

Fake 100 euro GEMA trojan or not? and what to do if it is?

  • hi there! I am a little worried, because today i was surfing when suddenly my screen displayed a GEMA-penalty screen. it basically says that until I pay 100 euros with a paysafecard I would not be able to use my computer. Then I restarted my computer and everything seemed to be fine except that I can not open my taskmanager and a little screen showing an http.address pops up. My question is if this is a virus, trojan or something like that how can I get rid of it and if it is safe to open other programs without infecting them with it. I do not have the money to take my computer to someone who can fix this and my knowledge about these things is little, so please it would be great if someone could help me here. I would really appreciate it. Sorry if I spelled something wrong; english is not my native language.

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    try the following: 1. boot the PC into safe mode with networking 2. download & run free malwarebytes & free superantispyware. http://www.malwarebytes.org/products/malwarebytes_free http://www.superantispyware.com/ 3. update us on what they remove.

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It is Trojan, how to delete it? Try this, boot in safe mode in most case this will stop Trojan from loading. Click Start, type msconfig in search box, press enter, click startup tab, scroll screen looking for some don't look normal. Make note of location, open Explorer, scroll to the location on file, highlight and delete. Close everthing and reboot to normal. If still there then do Google search for GEMA Trojan for online help to remove.

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Of course it's a virus you dummy.. LMFAO hahahahahahaha You cannot always safely, effectively and completely remove a virus infection in a Windows environment, as your operating system and antivirus protection can and will get corrupted. Sometimes even your bootsector and master boot record (MBR) gets corrupted, and the computer won't even boot up into Windows anymore. Here is the best way to remove a virus: What you should do if you know or suspect that your Windows computer was infected by a virus, worm, trojan or other malware: Go to a different, healthy, non-infected PC or laptop and download both the BitDefender and the Kaspersky Anti-virus Recovery CD's (free downloads). Download links for both: http://download.bitdefender.com/rescue_cd/ http://support.kaspersky.com/viruses/rescuedisk Burn both downloaded iso files to CD with an iso burner software. If you do not have an iso burning software installed, I recommend getting the CDBurnerXP (free software) from here: http://cdburnerxp.se/ Once you burned the recovery CD's, return to the infected computer and put the BitDefender Anti-virus Recovery CD in your CD/DVD drive and boot from CD (set your boot up options in BIOS to CD boot as first option if it does not boot from CD at first) Once your infected computer boots into the Recovery CD Linux environment, first update the virus definition database from the Internet server, than perform a complete scan of your desktop computer or laptop (all hard drives and/or partitions). Remove (delete) any infections found, and shut down your desktop computer or laptop. Remove the BitDefender Anti-virus Recovery CD and insert the Kaspersky Anti-virus Recovery CD. Repeat the same procedure as for BitDefender above. After scanning with those 2 Anti-virus Recovery CD's, your system should be virus free, and will function properly again. You might also need to do a master boot record (MBR) repair on your system, if your MBR also got corrupted. Download the Windows 7 or Vista System Recovery Discs (according to what you got), $9.75 here: http://neosmart.net/blog/2009/windows-7-system-repair-discs/ Burn the ISO to a CD, boot from it and repair your MBR. Or, with a little computer knowledge, you can create your own System Recovery Disc from an existing installation of Windows, read here: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/Create-a-system-repair-disc Good luck. Source(s): Happy and worry free Linux user (the guys that usually create the viruses - lool). Also Windows fixer for other less fortunate people.

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