Virus Help please

[Task Force]

Silentrunner I ment to ask, Do you know where the Virus could of come from so we dont go there.

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Task Force

Silentrunner I ment to ask, Do you know where the Virus could of come from so we dont go there.

I think he said it was from this thread

[goldorak]

Originally Posted by jimbuna

Reformatting is always the 100% surefire way of disposing of a nasty, but what a price to pay

Or better yet : stop using IE and choose Firefox or Opera.
If you're couragious enough even Safari would be better than IE.
Really having antivirus, antispyware etc...is all fine and dandy but the door should be closed before not after being infected. And IE is and will always be a great OPEN DOOR to every piece of malware/rootkits and whatnots that populate the web. (*)


(*) the only safe way to use IE is in Vista. In every other MS operating system just forget it.

[Task Force]

Originally Posted by jimbuna

I think he said it was from this thread

Aaaaaaaaah going to do a Virus scan now.:rotfl:

[Peto]

Originally Posted by SUBMAN1

Avast should get it during the boot time virus check, but since no drivers are loaded to speed up your HD during this test, it TAKES FOREVER!!!

Works though.

Second thing you need to do is download AdAware. Make sure you update the definitions. That will squash all the bugs that are spyware, and this app you are dealing with is spyware by the way.

When you are done with the Adaware scan, you need to pull up a run box and type services.msc. This will bring up the page of services on the machine - stop the Adaware service, and then set it to manual on boot up. This will prevent it from interfering with our next app.

Download Spybot Search and Destroy. Update its definitions and then run a scan with this. It will pick up what the other missed. This will take a long time too. Worse, it will most likely find something that can't be removed while the system is running, and it will want to shut down and scan at boot up in a not so similar manner to Avast that you describe above (except that it will boot further into the system). This will also take forever.

When all is said and done, pull up a runbox and type in cmd. In the command window, type in chkdsk /f to make sure your file system is intact (It is good to do this once in a while to avoid corruption). It will also want to reboot the machine, but it doesn't take very long.

Another thing you might want to follow up with is to Defrag your HD at some point. Should make things boot quicker in the future.

That is the process I would use if I were doing it. I've done it enough in my life to know what works. That is the reason I tell you to run those 2 Spyware checking apps in that order (They are the best in the business for spyware checking by the way). One will catch what the other misses.

I hope this helps, and let it be known, it is a very long process.

-S

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[JHuschke]

Originally Posted by Task Force

I tell you the people who start and make Virusis realy need to go get a life (or a Job.) You should probably do a Virus sweep to see if you could do it the easy way. (If someone put a Virus on my machine Id be P***** off. Thats why Subsim is the only place I download free stuff from.)

Yeah, I hate hackers unless they hack for the good! (Not hacking innocent pple's computers for the heck of it) Everyone has different opinions, but I love ZoneAlarm it is the best spyware and anti-virus program ever!


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