VIRUS/SPYWARE HELP
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alright i was stupid and went against my better judgement of running an .exe from a DL and now im in pop up HELL the worst part is Norton isn't detecting it, im goning to try running AVG but i doubt it will do anything. Anybody have any suggestions.
What are the pop ups (to what sites)? I got a virus (same way, too) that opened pop ups to the site for a system doctor program. I don't remember what its called, but its super hard to get rid of. I some how got rid of it after a month or two (or at least I think I did, haven't had the pop ups for a few months).
Make sure you run the virus scans in safe mode, after you've deleted your browser's cache. Even better, do a system restore if you have one from before the virus.
Make sure you run the virus scans in safe mode, after you've deleted your browser's cache. Even better, do a system restore if you have one from before the virus.
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Agreed. Also add in SmitRem, CCleaner, msconfig, Ad-Aware 2007, and of course upx to cram as much as possible into a cheap USB drive.Bibin wrote:AVG, HiJackThis, and SpyBot S&D are your gods.
Install these tools, disable system restore, and reboot into safe mode to do the cleaning.
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Check registry
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or msconfig alternatively.
If you find any key/value that looks suspicious, delete the exe from the given location and delete the key. Most viruses are programmed by morons that don't know their way around the kernel anyways, so you'll probably be able to kill it.
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HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Active Setup\Installed Components
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HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
If you find any key/value that looks suspicious, delete the exe from the given location and delete the key. Most viruses are programmed by morons that don't know their way around the kernel anyways, so you'll probably be able to kill it.