Ok, need a computer geek in a real bad way!

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Mousebaby

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I went looking for bachelor ecards with strippers for a friend of mine and got slammed with Trojans! Note the irony! Anyway, one scan picked up 29 Trojan downloaders. I have run every spyware scan and virus scan I can think of in and out of safe mode to no avail. Can anyone suggest something I have not tried. These are the programs I've used:


Spydoctor
Adaware SE
Norton Virus Scan
Windows Live One Care
Trend Micro free virus scan

Anymore suggestions will be greatly appreciated! :bawl:
 
millertc

millertc

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If Spybot does not work my hubby said if you can find out the name of the Trojans you have you should be able to go to Norton's or Symantec's website and do a search for each Trojan to see if those websites can tell you how to get rid of each virus. Did your anti-virus expire or has it not been updated?
 
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Mousebaby

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(((echo))) said:
C-CLEANER
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CCleaner will get rid of a virus? :confused:

No, my virus software has not expired, but apparently it sucks eggs! Spybot is about the only one I haven't tried. Webroot has never worked to well for me in the past but at this point I will give anything a try. I really don't want to fork over 300.00 to dell for virus help. :bawl:
 
Jeff

Jeff

Stop Staring!!!!!
Mousebaby said:
I went looking for bachelor ecards with strippers for a friend of mine and got slammed with Trojans! Note the irony! Anyway, one scan picked up 29 Trojan downloaders. I have run every spyware scan and virus scan I can think of in and out of safe mode to no avail. Can anyone suggest something I have not tried. These are the programs I've used:


Spydoctor
Adaware SE
Norton Virus Scan
Windows Live One Care
Trend Micro free virus scan

Anymore suggestions will be greatly appreciated! :bawl:
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Is the Norton you use current??
 
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knittin

somdexpressions
can you do a system restore back to the previous good day and then run your antivirus/spyware removers? Not sure if it will work though.
 
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Mousebaby

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knittin said:
can you do a system restore back to the previous good day and then run your antivirus/spyware removers? Not sure if it will work though.
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Yes Norton is current, and restoring to another time did not work. I got another idea I'm gonna try. If that doesn't work I'm just gonna shoot the damn thing! :lmao:
 
Mikeinsmd

Mikeinsmd

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Mousebaby said:
Yes Norton is current, and restoring to another time did not work. I got another idea I'm gonna try. If that doesn't work I'm just gonna shoot the damn thing! :lmao:
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If your Norton is current, they should not have got through. Is your firewall on as well? It's a good idea to block cookies too.
 
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juggy4805

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Mousebaby said:
I went looking for bachelor ecards with strippers for a friend of mine and got slammed with Trojans! Note the irony! Anyway, one scan picked up 29 Trojan downloaders. I have run every spyware scan and virus scan I can think of in and out of safe mode to no avail. Can anyone suggest something I have not tried. These are the programs I've used:


Spydoctor
Adaware SE
Norton Virus Scan
Windows Live One Care
Trend Micro free virus scan

Anymore suggestions will be greatly appreciated! :bawl:
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Try Avast home edition. It works great and it's free.
 
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Mousebaby

Guest
Computer is pretty much toast. I think I am going to have to reformat. It won't let me do a restore, it won't let me download any new virus stuff. So I am basically screwed. :bawl:
 
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Lamini

Member
save yourself a headache from now on, save anything to a drive not used by your operating system. takes 20-30minutes for a format, its a no brainer, costs nothing (once you have a drive), requires no researching. ie, get a decent sized drive in your computer and save to it, not your OS drive. it gets cheaper once you network your home and everyone saves to that drive in case of all the bad stuff out there happens. next time you'll just format and get it over with, thats it.
if you are worried or get paranoid with all the surfing you do, theres more than plenty of anonymous browsing stuff out there you can use to hide behind
 
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bobbyb

bobbyb

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Do a Google search for Stinger.exe, download it and run it in Safe mode. It is a stand-alone virus remover to get you out of situations like this. It is made by McAfee and will work on any system and doesn't care what virus software you are running. McAfee updates it just about everyday so make sure that you download it from the McAfee site. I have used it professionally for years and it works
 
2ndAmendment

2ndAmendment

Just a forgiven sinner
PREMO Member
Lamini said:
save yourself a headache from now on, save anything to a drive not used by your operating system. takes 20-30minutes for a format, its a no brainer, costs nothing (once you have a drive), requires no researching. ie, get a decent sized drive in your computer and save to it, not your OS drive. it gets cheaper once you network your home and everyone saves to that drive in case of all the bad stuff out there happens. next time you'll just format and get it over with, thats it.
if you are worried or get paranoid with all the surfing you do, theres more than plenty of anonymous browsing stuff out there you can use to hide behind
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That may not help. It is not where you store something but where the virus/trojan/worm/malware stores itself.

The safest way is to create a limited user account and use that to surf with and read email. A limited account cannot write to the registry or to systems areas. If you really want to install a new program, download it, scan it, keep it or trash it. If you keep it, log out as the surfer user and log in as an administrator and install the program.

That way nothing gets installed in the systems area without full knowledge. If something does install, it will only install in your personal areas, My Documents, and Programs and Settings/<your user account> Those will then be the only areas you will have to scan, or delete and reinstall.

It is a bit of a pain, but I did that for my wife on her computer and it has already saved her computer several times.
 
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nhboy

nhboy

Ubi bene ibi patria
bobbyb said:
Do a Google search for Stinger.exe, download it and run it in Safe mode. It is a stand-alone virus remover to get you out of situations like this. It is made by McAfee and will work on any system and doesn't care what virus software you are running. McAfee updates it just about everyday so make sure that you download it from the McAfee site. I have used it professionally for years and it works
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I checked that and it noted "This version of Stinger includes detection for all known variants, as of August 14, 2003", so that might not help. Do you if McAfee offer a new version somewhere else?
 
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