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Chris H
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Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2005 5:14 am

right got macafee somethign or other.

anyway clicked on a link on migweb and it came up all sorts of shit and clicked through a million dodgy porn sites etc trojan warnign flashed up a few times as well. It also somehow magically stuck antivirus gold 2.0 on my desktop and in the taskbar.

It also changed the homepage from google to sysetm 32 they are wathcign you has my IP address (the right one) and all sorts up on it.

Can I get rid of the crap/ can I feck!

Run macafee and it says everythings cool! No problems at all.

So what do I do and where do I start? its ferking irritating.
JB
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Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2005 5:18 am

re-install i say.

i like reinstalling, its like having a really nice bath.
astrojon007
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Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2005 5:20 am

Cry.

I always find as soon as you get one pop up it just snowballs until you end up in the phoetal position crying ,with bits of broken computer strewn around the room. So in that light yeah i rekon re-install would be the better option.
Chris H
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Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2005 5:22 am

also the desktop has changed.

blue screen and says this

Security warning

a fatal error in IE has occured at 0028:C0011E36 in VXD VMM<01> + 00010E36. Error was caused by Trojan-Spy.HTML.Smitfraud.c

* System cannot function in normal mode please check your security settings.

* Scan your pc with any available antivirus/spyware remover program to fix the problem.

Ran macafee and it says its fine btu its clearly not.

So you pc boffins whats th esolution?
Chris H
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Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2005 5:23 am

re-install what?

do you not remember eeven though we bought Xp it got taken away and we can;t get it back.

all the pc problems started after he fucked everythign up swapping the hd!
JB
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Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2005 5:24 am

burn it?

no but seriously, i would reinstall...but mind u i keep my OS backed up on ghost, so reinstalling takes a few minutes for me.
FincH
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Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2005 5:27 am

Get Nod32 tbh.

Best £29 I ever spents.

Stops everything Very Happy
JB
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Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2005 5:28 am

u see i dont understand....i run no firewall, and the virus program i use is a free one.

i suffer no problems.
astrojon007
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Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2005 5:48 am

It's all that porn.

I just go into nervous breakdown mode when stuff like that happens.

Try and backup any files you want to keep if it'll let you then re-format the hard drive and start again installing xp etc
Chris H
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Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2005 5:51 am

ok maybe I'm really stupid or something but me NOT HAVING XP ETC MAKES THIS A BIT FECKING HARD. I thought sayign that before would hve cleared that up but apparently not.

got that antivirus gold off the pc but still got somethign that says your pc is infected and takes me to psgyuard website
JB
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Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2005 5:52 am

get a copy then...easy as to get a copy these days.
huwwatkins
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Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2005 5:53 am

You shouldn't have to reinstall everytime you get a bit of spyware.

1st: Get rid of mcafee, its shit.
2. try some of these programs:

http://www.lavasoft.de/ << Lavasoft Adaware, free download on the front page

http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html

and finally.... if you have XP get MS antispyware

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=321cd7a2-6a57-4c57-a8bd-dbf62eda9671&displaylang=en

Downloading windows updates and keeping uptodate will also help prevent certain types of spyware getting in.
astrojon007
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Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2005 6:28 am

I guess my 5 year old shoddy Tiny PC doesn't help things much.

I have a little bro for computer stuff and I try and fix the car related stuff (Not always sucessfully). Will ask and c if i can get me hands on a copy of xp(sure i got a copy at home or work) If you need it that is. Although I think it's probably a bit of a last resort.
Chris H
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Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2005 7:36 am

its fucking me right off now.

downloaded the MS antispy thingy. found 1 file, the antivirus gold thing, which I had removed, it appears it wasn;t all removed. so I got antispy to remove it. Says sits deleted.

It then said blah blah default browser settings etc, I went into it through antispy set it all back to google etc and clicked ok.

Tried it and it comes back up on that page!

also MS XPo auto update is enabled and regularly updates, its updating the now, well downloading the update its at 48%

we went out and got macafee because everyoen that is apparently in the know says its the best
JB
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Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2005 7:46 am

i use AVG, the free edition, from Grisoft.

Small and simple seems to do thge trick perfectly. doesnt hog cpu usage like norton and the likes of can do.
Chris H
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Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2005 7:52 am

doing a deep scan, shoudl take less than 29 minutes! 29 minutes! I want it done yesterday!
Amber
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Posts: 435

Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2005 7:57 am

That pc has been nothing but a bloody nightmare!!!
JB
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Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2005 7:59 am

bin it
Chris H
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Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2005 8:07 am

well the scan took 8 mins.

the things that were deleted are now feckign back! well 1 of them!
Amber
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Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2005 8:08 am

Its demonic!!!
huwwatkins
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Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2005 8:10 am

Trythe Lavasoft Adaware , I find it removes more than the rest. If its a nasty peice of spyware then it will hide itself in several places. If you have XP DISABLE System restore.
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