downloaded virus
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So who makes them? Well I for one do, sometimes for fun, sometimes for a legit reason. It depends.
Also, to the OP, I've seen that virus before. It just keeps shutting down explorer.exe, which is really ****ing annoying, but if you have a bootable antivirus CD you might be able to take care of it.
It's angry nerds who have too much time on their hands. With this Antvirus 2008 bs, they are also trying to get you to pay for a bogus license and extort money.
Someone needs to take a baseball bat to their nut sack. Problem is, no one can ever find them because most of the time they are from different countries. I think this virus originated in China, or somewhere over there.
It's such a pain in the **** to get rid of. I sympathize with anyone who got infected by it.
Someone needs to take a baseball bat to their nut sack. Problem is, no one can ever find them because most of the time they are from different countries. I think this virus originated in China, or somewhere over there.
It's such a pain in the **** to get rid of. I sympathize with anyone who got infected by it.
Yeah what's the point of a largescale operation like that.
Agreed.
They're almost never from other countries, they're being smart and jumping off foreign IP's and Proxy servers so it'll make it LOOK like they live somewhere else but they don't.
It originated here...
That's the point.
Same here, but only the ones that seek out security flaws. If you click download something or open an attachment that looks phony and you get infected. I don't feel sorry for you. Think next time.
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I had that virus a couple of months ago. I was using Spybot S/D. I paid $50 to download Antispy storm and it got rid of it....I think. I'm not sure WTF is wrong but I cant use the Antispystorm anymore because it tries to open with Notepad. If I try to use Notepad I get some B.S. warning and it automatically shuts down. Any help???
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So who makes them? Well I for one do, sometimes for fun, sometimes for a legit reason. It depends.
Also, to the OP, I've seen that virus before. It just keeps shutting down explorer.exe, which is really ****ing annoying, but if you have a bootable antivirus CD you might be able to take care of it.
Also, to the OP, I've seen that virus before. It just keeps shutting down explorer.exe, which is really ****ing annoying, but if you have a bootable antivirus CD you might be able to take care of it.
ok well im installing norton right now, it wouldnt let me install anything else....
for those who removed it manually, id love some more info
lol so i just backed up everything off my computer onto my phones memory card
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I've got the Norton corporate edition through work and didn't get rid of it. You can try it but I think you'll be wasting your time. You might have to try to manually remove it or go with that Spyware Doctor link I posted earlier. That's what did it for me. I also had to run it a few times for it to finally get everything off.
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I've got the Norton corporate edition through work and didn't get rid of it. You can try it but I think you'll be wasting your time. You might have to try to manually remove it or go with that Spyware Doctor link I posted earlier. That's what did it for me. I also had to run it a few times for it to finally get everything off.
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you're gonna have to reinstall windows, my GF's mom's computer got infected with this thing, you are lucky b.c her USB ports were shut down too.
If you want when i get home tonight talk to me on aim and i can walk you through reinstalling windows if you have a disk already.
If you want when i get home tonight talk to me on aim and i can walk you through reinstalling windows if you have a disk already.
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you're gonna have to reinstall windows, my GF's mom's computer got infected with this thing, you are lucky b.c her USB ports were shut down too.
If you want when i get home tonight talk to me on aim and i can walk you through reinstalling windows if you have a disk already.
If you want when i get home tonight talk to me on aim and i can walk you through reinstalling windows if you have a disk already.
o yeah...umm cant open aim
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yeah he lives about 30 min from me, might need to pay him a visit
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i know i know im post whoreing but i dont really care, another one of my problems about reformatting is itunes....i just today authorized my computer to my account and it told me its the last computer i can authorize but now i cant open it to deauthorize it so then i really do forever loose my music, i know one computer is my old one that is gone and on my gf's computer but not sure about the other 2 maybe my parents. but if i cant deauthorize one of the computers im screwed
