virus help

[SUBMAN1]

Originally Posted by Monica Lewinsky

All that program does is tell you that you are screwed. It does very little to solve the problem other than stop the auto-starts that MIGHT be the cause of the problem[s].

His words are true - good for finding stuff, and if you aren't good at manual manipulation, Hijack will not do anything for you which is why i don't even mention it.

Pull up a run menu and type in msconfig. That will allow you to selectively control what programs start up. You can safely disable everything in the start tab, but you may get some not so friendly errors under normal operation.

Anyway, disable everything and then run Spybot. Try Spybot if Adaware is having issue.

What ticks me off on Adaware is that I was on its testing committee back during the Becky forum days, and back then they were always telling us it would be 100% free forever. Seems you must buy it now days if you want full functionality. Spybot is still 100% free by the way.

-S

[JHuschke]

What are you using? You should get a better firewall, get ZL.

http://www.zonealarm.com/store/content/home.jsp

It's what I use, hunts em down and kills em.

[Skybird]

This would be the time for me to turn on paranoid mode, since éven after a "repair" I am not able to put trust in my installation anymore. I would format and reinstall, not using any saved data from the time period since you became aware of something beeing messed up.

Guys, use an installation image on a separate drive to do a backup of your basic installation. that way reinstallaing is a breeze, only updates and working files/save games you need to copy over by hand. This has been one of the best investments in my PC I ever did. Acronis software 45 euros, second HD in frame 50-60 euros - "und gut is'. " just do not leave the image HD connected to the computer, so that it cannot get infested. Physical separation/interruption is always a million times better than any software solution to protect a device from something - every software code can be beaten.

[d@rk51d3]

Also, try booting into "safe mode" first , THEN run your scans. You'll usually detect even more nasties.

[SteveW1]

I had this same situation recently myself, every time I opened up explorer an advert would load instantly telling me to download their program.

I tried multiple adware programs as well as virus scanners, they wouldn't pick up diddly squat so in the end I backed up 8 DVD's worth of data and reformatted my hard drive.

No problems now after formating and reinstalling.

Hope you get your problem sorted nikimcbee.

Steve

[kiwi_2005]

Hijacked. I got a similar one once, Spybot killed it.

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by SteveW1

I tried multiple adware programs as well as virus scanners, they wouldn't pick up diddly squat so in the end I backed up 8 DVD's worth of data and reformatted my hard drive.

You must be aware that it holds a risk to create backups from the time your system already has been affected. It is better to do regular backups, or incremental backups, of your wokring files, and have three sets of them from the past three (or how many you want) timestamps, so that you can always go back to a backup originating from a time when everything still was in order. else you reinstall your system, copy your infested data back to it - and you are were you started, in the middle of the mess.

[UnderseaLcpl]

Had the same problem. I looked it up on google, found a forum that addressed it and listed registry values to delete. I wouldn't download any auto-fixes as some of them are malware as well.

I don't know anything about the registry or programming but I managed to get it to work.

Of course there is always factory restore if you have the disk.

Or you could get a mac