Help With My Computer
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Re: Help With My Computer
AVG Free 8.0 and Windows Defender
both are free and work great together
if you are having a hard time removing the virus, birng over the tower and ill take the hard drive out clean it on one of my clean machines
i fix computers for a living, im in va beach
both are free and work great together
if you are having a hard time removing the virus, birng over the tower and ill take the hard drive out clean it on one of my clean machines
i fix computers for a living, im in va beach
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Re: Help With My Computer
I'm not to good at doing stuff like this anybody willing to come over and do it for me?? I live in Chesapeake like 10 mins from Greenbrier mall. I will delete all the programs off or just wait for someone? I'm free all tomorrow morning and afternoon I don't have class till 5:30 so let me know the sooner the better...
Best thing to do is to boot the hard drive on another computer, and run ccleaner,cleanup malwarebytes, superantispyware, hitmanpro, combofix, kaspersky av. If you are trying to remove spyware / virus from a computer that is running it can bypass the spyware and start running again. If you do not have a second computer you can remove it via safe mode. Make sure that you update all of the programs, and disconnect your internet connection.
Make sure you disable system restore as well. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/310405
If you run all of those correctly you will remove it. I get at least one computer every few weeks with one of the winantivirus programs.
Make sure you disable system restore as well. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/310405
If you run all of those correctly you will remove it. I get at least one computer every few weeks with one of the winantivirus programs.
Windows defender does not detect any of the rouge winantivirus programs.
Last edited by Laris; Dec 11, 2008 at 07:32 AM.
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Stock Block Killaa
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Re: Help With My Computer
Ok I tried to start the computer up in safe mode I was hitting f8 a bunch of times and nothing happened is there a certain time I should hit that key when it's starting up?
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Re: Help With My Computer
Best thing to do is to boot the hard drive on another computer, and run ccleaner,cleanup malwarebytes, superantispyware, hitmanpro, combofix, kaspersky av. If you are trying to remove spyware / virus from a computer that is running it can bypass the spyware and start running again. If you do not have a second computer you can remove it via safe mode. Make sure that you update all of the programs, and disconnect your internet connection.
Make sure you disable system restore as well. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/310405
If you run all of those correctly you will remove it. I get at least one computer every few weeks with one of the winantivirus programs.
Make sure you disable system restore as well. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/310405
If you run all of those correctly you will remove it. I get at least one computer every few weeks with one of the winantivirus programs.
When you say boot on another computer do you mean just install it as a secondary drive? But not running the operating system on that hard drive?
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Stock Block Killaa
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Re: Help With My Computer
Ok nvm I got it to start up in safe mode. I updated the programs I have and disconnected it from the internet. Now im running a scan right now with malawarebytes in safe mode so will see how things go...
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If you need help lmk, Im friends with alot of people who code for a living and many of them started out writing trojans in vb(visual basic, not virginia beach). that said, look at the process list, and see what is using up your computers resources(clock cycles), if a process is being a hog and looks suspicious, google it. I'd also open up dos prompt and see what connections are active(will show if your computer is being used as a drone).
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Stock Block Killaa
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Re: Help With My Computer
If you need help lmk, Im friends with alot of people who code for a living and many of them started out writing trojans in vb(visual basic, not virginia beach). that said, look at the process list, and see what is using up your computers resources(clock cycles), if a process is being a hog and looks suspicious, google it. I'd also open up dos prompt and see what connections are active(will show if your computer is being used as a drone).