A Virus, Help?????

[Reach]

Re: A Virus, Help?????

PS - those who suggest formatting the HDD need to be shot. ****ing seriously. That's like committing suicide because you're constipated. There are very few situations in which a complete format is needed, and the system must really be in dire straits to need such a thing. If you format, you'll have a hell of a lot of work configuring everything and reinstalling all of your programs, and it gets even more hellish when you don't have a specific crucial driver and you have no way of getting it, etc.

It's hardly suicide if the problem is severe, since it always works if done properly. I know there are other ways to try to deal with the problem, but *IMO*, it requires the least amount of work. At least for me personally, a reformat only takes a few hours. If you're computer savvy, gathering all the necessary drivers is not at all difficult.

Mind you, it appears to be spyware XD So much for that problem.

That is one of the most impressive task lists I've ever seen though. IIRC my dad had a similar problem. He didn't understand the concept of his computer screwing up because of maxed out pc usage due to running 60+ processes.

[footbull3196]

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Awwww... did ur computer go poopsie woopsie?

Well have you tried... STICKING IT IN YOUR EAR?!

XD

jk man

i know what you mean b/c my friend got me a virus on my old computer b/c he downloaded limewire

[Oni-Paranoia]

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I ran through the process with squeek of manually deleting this. Only a part of it has been stopped. The other part is an undeletable file that continues to come back after being deleted through every way possible.
Deleted ways
Through Registry
Manually through system32 folder
Task Mangager
Hijackthis
and removed from Startup
But it comes back through all ways, don kno how, any other ways to attempt to delete this???

[Saik0Shinigami]

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Wow... I missed this thread.

If you're still having issues, hit me up on AIM or MSN or PM me. I'll give you a pin number and a website, then I'll have the issue fixed within a few hours if it's that bad. From the looks of it, it's not a rootkit. So it should be like 15 minutes or so.

Took care of other people already on this forum:

http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/vbz/showthread.php?t=97859

[Superfreak04]

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Your cousin is going to be a porn star? AWESOME!
*Sorry totally off topic*

[Oni-Paranoia]

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Your cousin is going to be a porn star? AWESOME!
*Sorry totally off topic*

Why else would he have allowed his own computer and my computer to be destroyed by porn. Hope he can show off in a body cast.

[Superfreak04]

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IDK, but he is a lucky man.

[Zageron]

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Damnit Squeek!!! I figured out the solution while reading those posts and you went and spewed everywhere! D:

Squeek's hit is dead on.

Oh mind you, I can help you erase the files.

https://www.malwarebytes.org

done.

Install, boot in safe mode, find the files your erasing, use file assassin under tools. Run a full scan.
:/

[Squeek]

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Yeah, even if you guys knew the answer, I don't know the solution. What worked in my instance did not work for this guy.

So keep the solutions coming. I got nothing.

[Saik0Shinigami]

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I has a new method of fixing stuffs!

if anyone ever needs me to come to the rescue just go to http://www.Saik0.com/TV.exe and download/run that, tell me your ID, and I'll kill w/e virus or mal-ware your porn addiction gives you.

I'm waiting on OP to do this He's still waiting for Spybot to finish last I checked.

[u84]

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You seriously should check out www.dban.org because it worked wonders for my computer.

[Oni-Paranoia]

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ALRIGHT, ALL DONE =D

Thx to Squeek I managed to delete most of it his way. And credit to Saik0Shinigami for tellin me to run it in safe mode.
To get rid of it, I jused "Hijackthis" to find the problem. That showed me/squeek what wasnt needed. Then Deleted what i can using the CMD and Task Manager. Then afterwards Booted up the Comp in "Safe Mode" to delete the file(s) I couldnt originally. Then I was all set.

Yes that took one whole day, and the almighty Squeek to complete. thx for everyones help.

[Zageron]

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ALRIGHT, ALL DONE =D

Thx to Squeek I managed to delete most of it his way. And credit to Saik0Shinigami for tellin me to run it in safe mode.
To get rid of it, I jused "Hijackthis" to find the problem. That showed me/squeek what wasnt needed. Then Deleted what i can using the CMD and Task Manager. Then afterwards Booted up the Comp in "Safe Mode" to delete the file(s) I couldnt originally. Then I was all set.

Yes that took one whole day, and the almighty Squeek to complete. thx for everyones help.

Sad face that Squeek got here before me ;______;
My report would have been identical to his, + the soulution.

I feel owned D: <

[OrganisM]

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It's not a competition, it's about not destroying his computer while offering help. -_-

Note how when I saw the processes listed I went HOLY FCUK? That might have something to do with what looked like three antivirus programs running at once, and an absurd amount of RAM usage from background/startup processes.

I've got news for you guys. You know what an antivirus program is? A big, clunky, poorly written virus that you may or may not be paying for. It inserts itself in places in your registry you sure as hell didn't ask it to, it monitors everything you do, and has a large degree of control over your computer. And those 70,000+ definitions on Norton? Just to let you know, fewer than 100 viruses are wide-spread or even out there enough to be considered a threat for anybody, and all those "defenitions updates" you pay for are actually BS little scripts created by Norton employees. If you're smart, you will stick with an unobtrusive program that scans your computer at your discretion. At my workplace, I have a mid-sized network setup, and the security is almost all at the network level. The connection is scanned and monitored a thousand times over before it even reaches the network, and I have some safeguards in place in case a computer hacks in and poses as a trusted computer. Almost nothing is ever running on the computers in the network, and thus the computers being used for intense rendering applications are freed to work without being clogged up and bogged down. I understand that security at the network level is not possible for every user, but it is possible to have a degree of security without putting five anti-virus programs on your computer and taking up 1gb of RAM with that and other start-up processes before you even have a chance to start any processes of your own.

[Squeek]

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That, folks, is exactly why I don't use an Anti-Virus.