A Virus, Help?????

[Oni-Paranoia]

Alright, I have a Virus on this computer. Most likely Spyware or Malware. Ive been using "AVG" and a program called "HiJackthis" to try and clear it but doesnt seem to work. This comp runs slower and slower each day and soon it wont run at all, any Suggestions???

[UnkownMan]

Re: A Virus, Help?????

Reboot your computer. It will take away all the un wanted files and probably the ones with thee viruses, like the programs you mentioned.

[Mr.Nothing]

Re: A Virus, Help?????

Free online scan and cleaning.

http://housecall.trendmicro.com/

[fido123]

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Try Defragging...sometimes your computer just gets to a point where it gets like this but all it needs is a good Disc Clean up and a Defragmentation...might not be the case but it's worth a try.

[Oni-Paranoia]

Re: A Virus, Help?????

Reboot your computer. It will take away all the un wanted files and probably the ones with thee viruses, like the programs you mentioned.

Reboot as in Format is out of the question. This computer has programs I cant get and this is the House comp, so im not the only one who uses it, jus 90% of the day.

Edit: Gonna go through the Defragmentation process once the AVG scan stops.

[Reach]

Re: A Virus, Help?????

A defrag won't do anything...a defrag rearranges hd data in order to free space, usually to improve speed.

If AVG can't get rid of it you could be in some trouble. It's probably a trojan horse, which doesn't replicate itself like a virus does, but usually serves to hijack files and slowly destroy your computer.

You probably can't delete it with any mainstream programs at this point, since it has probably hijacked files to prevent such a thing. You can try other various problems...or deleting it manually in safe mode. There's a good chance this won't work either though, since typically a good trojan horse will change file names on every restart.

Reformat is definitely the best option, regardless of it being out of the question, unless you get lucky with other programs and they can remove the problem. If you continue to let it get worse you're going to lose all of your data and potentially more anyway. You might as well burn everything you need now and format it.

[Ground_Breaker]

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I've used Ad-Aware by Lavasoft for a long time, and it's worked great for all kinds of things. I'm not really an expert in this area, but Reach is right in saying that a defrag won't do anything against a computer virus.

[Oni-Paranoia]

Re: A Virus, Help?????

The good question will be now... How to remove 10 Gb + of needed items... ive used ad aware before for a similar problem and it did nothing -.- So my choices are "Ouch".

[Phynx]

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Did you know that a system restore from before a virus has always fixed them for me? Hehe, give it a shot. :P Hopefully you have system restore enabled.

[Coolboyrulez0]

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Run fullscan for Ad-Aware and Spybot Search & Destroy in Safe Mode overnight.
That's the only advice I can give that hasn't really been given.

[fido123]

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A defrag won't do anything...a defrag rearranges hd data in order to free space, usually to improve speed.

There have been a few times where my computer was going slow as **** and I hit all this lag like a wall. I defragged and it worked and has a few times, wasn't saying it was the problem but it never hurts to try. And yeah, if all else fails, reformat.

[Im Vince]

Re: A Virus, Help?????

try spybot it works real well for me

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

[Oni-Paranoia]

Re: A Virus, Help?????

Im using XP System Restore is... umm idk where i searched for it and it doesnt exist, ill spybot in sade mode overnight and will defrag on my next restart. Wierd thing is, I kno exactly where it is, C drive/Windows/System32. Its always around there when i scan

[fido123]

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Yep, that's a virus...if you can't get rid of it you have to reformat.

[Gibson63]

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Too Much P0rn heh?