Randalf
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Post by Randalf on Jun 1, 2006 5:23:37 GMT -5
i feel so incredibly stupid right now.. I got an AIM virus.. someone from my old school sent me a message with a link (the circumstances made it seem completely legit.. I even talked to him for a moment before opening the link) when I did open it I got the virus.. I've run adaware.. then spybot search and destroy both deleted about 150 things... but there were always about 5 that it said I had to restart to catch. Well, when I restarted it just took forever and it gave the same message (after deleting about 150 more). I really don't want to reformat just because of something so stupid, but I'm not that great at fixing computers  , any advice?? BTW I have found where the virus exists (I think) spybot showed me where in the program folder that it is, it won't let me delete or alter the code. |
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Post by Slipper Eater on Jun 1, 2006 5:31:35 GMT -5
Righto, go DL ewido. It should fix it.
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Post by Randalf on Jun 1, 2006 5:36:02 GMT -5
;D I will google it now.. too bad school starts in an hour and a half (I woke at 5:30...)
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Post by Samurai Slayer on Jun 1, 2006 8:21:46 GMT -5
 I can't help... I had to reinstall windows after my virus'... |
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Post by Randalf on Jun 1, 2006 15:00:25 GMT -5
Well.. ewido did the same thing as the others.. it got rid of basically all of them but about 3. Two of them I manually deleted in safe mode, but there is one that is running two seperate things in the background... so when I try to disable one, the second one reestablishes it (I can only disable one thing at a time)
A friend tells me that he has a program that runs on MS-DOS, I think that might work, but I can't get a hold of him... any other suggestions?
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Post by Randalf on Jun 1, 2006 15:46:56 GMT -5
I think I fixed it!
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Post by Hunessai on Jun 1, 2006 17:27:04 GMT -5
Advice: Beat up the kid until he fixes it.
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Post by Randalf on Jun 1, 2006 19:24:59 GMT -5
I  ing hate viruses! There are rare things that get me livid, but viruses just happen to be one of them. I would be most entirely glad to take a baseball bat to the kids face, but he happens to live 10 hours away from me now. I took the one surfsidekick3 off finally... system reboot then deleted it, but now there are trojans and hijack things and adware that multiple virus scans are saying they have repaired, but then I run another scan and 50 more pop up.. |
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Post by thaddius on Jun 1, 2006 19:26:47 GMT -5
Try disconecting your internet and then running scans, that may stop new things from getting in your system.
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Post by Randalf on Jun 1, 2006 19:32:15 GMT -5
Try disconecting your internet and then running scans, that may stop new things from getting in your system. Did that all this morning... in safe mode and normal and such. |
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Post by Slipper Eater on Jun 1, 2006 20:22:22 GMT -5
Go DL hijackthis and post your log.
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Post by ShadowLynx on Jun 1, 2006 21:40:40 GMT -5
Lucky it doesn't eat up your hard drive. First scan your critical files with NOT-NORTON. Even Trend-Micro is better. Then phone your IP company to disconect you temporarily because some viruses automatically logs you on. Then kill the little buggers.
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Post by Twitchmonkey on Jun 2, 2006 1:07:20 GMT -5
Run AVG and run adaware about 3 times, then try turning off system restore and restarting the computer in safe mode (run -> MSconfig).
Repeat until you do not have to any longer.
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Post by Ratwar on Jun 2, 2006 1:13:01 GMT -5
Lucky it doesn't eat up your hard drive. First scan your critical files with NOT-NORTON. Even Trend-Micro is better. Then phone your IP company to disconect you temporarily because some viruses automatically logs you on. Then kill the little buggers. Or you could just unplug the cord in the back of the PC... |
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Post by Muad'dib on Jun 2, 2006 2:44:38 GMT -5
Run AVG and run adaware about 3 times, then try turning off system restore and restarting the computer in safe mode (run -> MSconfig). Repeat until you do not have to any longer. I was always fine after just AVG twice, then i'd restart and scan again. Before, as well, I got an msn virus years ago. A George.W.Bush@whitehouse.gov is typing a message would come up at the bottom of the person i'm sending a message to. It had that up constantly, and the messages that were posted were all "  " (EDIT: And that was being sent rapid fire, like a constant stream of wink smilies. It really irritated whoever I was talking to. It also posted links automatically with viruses attached, so I had to change my name to something like "Don't open links, and i'm not sending smilies in case anyone messaged me.") I know many of you, if not all will not believe me, unless one of you had it back in the day, but I was a relative computer noob and my virus scanner sucked, so what I ended up doing was Start->Search and deleting the files manually. It worked. And, no, I don't think George Bush gave my computer a virus, and i'm not wearing a tinfoil hat. |
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Post by Muad'dib on Jun 2, 2006 6:23:46 GMT -5
Also, be sure to get a good firewall. Don't trust Microsoft's one.
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Randalf
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Post by Randalf on Jun 2, 2006 19:54:51 GMT -5
Well.. I downloaded hijackthis and I seem to have misplaced the log now... but I believe I have truly gotten rid of all of the viruses this time. I ran a scan and my pc was clean, so until I see something that tells me otherwise, I'm just going to pretend (and hopefully be right) that it is fine.
If it isn't, then I will be sure to post my logs the next scan.
Thanks all..... I really hate viruses..
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Post by lulu on Jun 7, 2006 3:35:56 GMT -5
I can't help... I had to reinstall windows after my virus'...  |
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Post by melchior1 on Jul 11, 2006 21:34:55 GMT -5
Also, be sure to get a good firewall. Don't trust Microsoft's one. definitely don't trust Microsofts...it sucks...I've got kerio, the limited version is free |
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