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VIRUS ALERT!
Cobra:
acutly it went away from Disk Deframents and Nortan and deleting all files i dont need
Mo:
Easy solution to spyware removal: Spyware are of course little programs that do annoying things, as such they are running processes on your system. The best way to kill a spyware is not allow it to start in the first place. All startup programs are defined in the registery. But editing the registery is definitely a pain so it is possible and easy to edit the startup program selection. Tools like Spybot Search and Destroy (if you don't have this program plz go download it now) have a System Startup Config tool. All you gotta do if uncheck all those sketchy looking EXEs and you'll be all good.
Viruses are different from spyware as most don't run processes. Once you execute a virus it makes system changes that tend to really mess up your comp. You'll need to change the system config back to normal to get rid of the virus. Virus removal tools from Norton make these changes automatically. I once got a virus that changed the way .exe files are handled thus making it pretty hard to run any removal tool. Lucky for me it wasn't hard to change that setting back to normal. However it was annoying :D
ViperDE2004:
OMFG I HAVE THAT. IM GOING TO KILL MY BROTHERS! Hmmm i wonder if system restore would do the trick...
CABAZON:
System restore will not work. it only changes settings. If anything, system restore will cause more problems, as several viruses can get in and lay 'dormant' in it. I disable system restore. It's not worth it.
Soul Sojourner:
That's the problem guys.... I have spyware begone and use multiple online scanners i've found... they destroy the spyware that I got along with it. The virus deleted half my WINDOWS directory. In addition I have norton antivirus... the virus destroyed it the second I got it... every attempt at reinstall is messed with, and any attempt to activate auto-protect or scan is sabotaged. Any attempts at editing the registry are automatically aborted. Any attempts to visit a site that may be potentially threatening to it, is also aborted. (It has stopped me from many, but hasnt stopped me from the symantec site or others like it, which havent helped anyway.)
It often slows my comp, and causes folders to be opened in three's or two's and sometimes doesnt allow them to load and forces end process. My boot disk isnt working, and my guess is that my boot disk is fine... I think the floppy drive is fucked up... I dont think it's ever worked, I havent used it yet... I'll try some others from my giant stack of comp parts (Unfortunately I havent ordered a Windows 98 SE installation disk(s) yet. and I have a lack of working HDD's) If you know what Wipe and Zap are, I was planning on running wipe on the HDD, which means, nothing left, operating system, nothing. Then installing Windows XP again, unfortunately, there is Microsofts bullshit prevent piracy activation key crap, and I've already activated. ugh.
I do intend on sending Symantec all information I recieve/learn about this virus. My guess is it is new. No online scanners or anything have made any progress in finding it. I also can't change my configuration settings, since it enjoys changing them back. Unless you're speaking of the settings before startup, which I see no reason to change. And there are instructions to get rid of a certain virus similiar to this, (there are others similiar too, but this is the only one of the list I gave in the link above, that deletes so many system files) the strange part about that, is the files it tells me to delete and later restore, happen to already be deleted by the virus, and apparantly they are "important" system files. This thing also deactivated my firewall, of course I reactivated it and it hasnt messed with it after, also when I did that it stopped sending messages to ppl with the virus, although I was also doing other things preventing that, it just stopped trying. I turn on show all hidden files and system files etc. but it enjoys shutting that back off.
Just a simple virus? It will be when I'm through with it. Obviously someone put alot of thought and work into this to make it temporarily "unstoppable." Anyone who can help me in my slow progress, please do. (I'm glad Spyware Begone takes the spyware shit out of registry for me.)
EDIT: Apparantly it has some use for WinAce. Awhile ago it took it and installed it by itself, i blew it off as strange activity. Now I made an attempt to uninstall it... "Winace could not be removed properly. Are some of it's files still in use?" -_-
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