VIRUS!!!!!!!!!!
VIRUS!!!!!!!!!!
Its giving me fake security reports, shut down my admin control and removed a bunh of options that were in my start panel. I also get errors when i connect that there are some start up controls unavailable.....any ideas? i've scanned and removed what i can but its continuing to spam warnings then spam cleaner websites.
RE: VIRUS!!!!!!!!!!
Whatever you can do to remove a threat like will likely still leave most of those disabling effects like the loss of system controls and options.
You'd might as well backup your stuff and reinstall your OS, it'd be faster (to fix, reinstalling all your stuff would take an equal amount of time to you having to manually find - find out how to - and repair whatever the virus screwed with).
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You'd might as well backup your stuff and reinstall your OS, it'd be faster (to fix, reinstalling all your stuff would take an equal amount of time to you having to manually find - find out how to - and repair whatever the virus screwed with).
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I can give you two links that a guy I know who does spyware/virus removal for a living has posted. Maybe one of them would help, but Den's probably right that you'll spend just as much time as a reload would be.
Here they are:
General Removal - http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=163 ... r_16333569
XP AntiVirus 2008 Virus - http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=17739960
Here they are:
General Removal - http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=163 ... r_16333569
XP AntiVirus 2008 Virus - http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=17739960
blah, at least you still have access to alot of your stuff.. the day i finally put my computer together, i was reinstalling everything i had tried to save from the old one.. and as i clicked on a program to open it and reconfigure my settings (something to do with desktop theme/startmenu/visual stuff) my computer had a total fit.. everything was being deleted infront of me.. windows everywhere.. shut me out of all admin options.. deleted half of the stuff i had just installed.. and then shut down my computer all within 30 or so seconds.. and i was too drunk to hit the power button right away.. when i tried to restart the computer EVERYTHING was gone from the desktop.. couldnt access anything because it had blocked me out
so i did what den said and just reinstalled my OS.. took another few hours to go through the whole process again just to find out that the shit was still there. i didnt reclick the program that gave me trouble the first time.. it just auto-ran itself after one of my restarts while i was taking a crap.. had to reinstall my OS a 3rd time!
finally got in.. caught it doing its thing YET AGAIN.. shut down my computer.. restarted into safe mode.. quickly found the cheapest (free) virus remover i could find.. Windows Live OneCare... which i definately recommend using up their 90 day trial if you dont have anything.. and it cleaned alot of the crap out, which gave me enough time to get more free removers of spyware/virus.. and get rid of more... to this day.. i still get random popups from onecare telling me its found a virus/trojan at least 2-3 times a month
at work.. one of the girls up front used the breakroom computer to check some myspace crap.. now it has a little hidden screensaver that puts little bugs all over the screen eating it.. i cant find it anywhere.. with anything
crap like this comes from just about anywhere.. goodluck getting rid of all of it... makes me wonder sometimes when cod4 is downloading all these files.. how hard it would be to for some fag to throw in a virus into one of those files and having cod4 run it... RAWR makes me want to beat up some nerds..
edit: sorry.. just realised i ranted and raved about nothing you wanted to hear.. crappy day at work.. your dilema just reminded me of what i had to go through before... Frustrating isnt it?
so i did what den said and just reinstalled my OS.. took another few hours to go through the whole process again just to find out that the shit was still there. i didnt reclick the program that gave me trouble the first time.. it just auto-ran itself after one of my restarts while i was taking a crap.. had to reinstall my OS a 3rd time!
finally got in.. caught it doing its thing YET AGAIN.. shut down my computer.. restarted into safe mode.. quickly found the cheapest (free) virus remover i could find.. Windows Live OneCare... which i definately recommend using up their 90 day trial if you dont have anything.. and it cleaned alot of the crap out, which gave me enough time to get more free removers of spyware/virus.. and get rid of more... to this day.. i still get random popups from onecare telling me its found a virus/trojan at least 2-3 times a month
at work.. one of the girls up front used the breakroom computer to check some myspace crap.. now it has a little hidden screensaver that puts little bugs all over the screen eating it.. i cant find it anywhere.. with anything
crap like this comes from just about anywhere.. goodluck getting rid of all of it... makes me wonder sometimes when cod4 is downloading all these files.. how hard it would be to for some fag to throw in a virus into one of those files and having cod4 run it... RAWR makes me want to beat up some nerds..
edit: sorry.. just realised i ranted and raved about nothing you wanted to hear.. crappy day at work.. your dilema just reminded me of what i had to go through before... Frustrating isnt it?
Ouch Peng, sounds like you got a boot sector or BIOS virus or something. (luckily never had to deal with one) so my recommendations are limited. I would recommend starting over with a new hard drive and flash your BIOS with an updated version to be safe. These days all bad guys want its your passwords and bandwidth and do everything in their power to remain hidden.
And Zero, yeah I agree with Den and Arch .. just re-format. Depending on how lax your local security policy is, you might be in an impossible situation. Plus there's something to be said about peace of mind. And also what Den said, make sure you try and pinpoint the actions you took that gave you the virus in the first place.
Good luck Amigo!
And Zero, yeah I agree with Den and Arch .. just re-format. Depending on how lax your local security policy is, you might be in an impossible situation. Plus there's something to be said about peace of mind. And also what Den said, make sure you try and pinpoint the actions you took that gave you the virus in the first place.
Good luck Amigo!
Oddly enough it all went away with a simple system restore.(which i had just set up the day before) I found the virus in a program that i DOWNLOADED before i restored my system. so i knew not to go near that dl again. Then i flagged it so others wouldn't be tricked into taking it. It was for media player 12 beta version. If thats what it does when you install it....i dont want it!
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