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ljbaron

Nastttty Virus

By ljbaron, in Miscellaneous Discussions

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ljbaron    0

ljbaron
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So I got some weird Chinese/Japanese virus. It keep on installing programs on my computer and its totally slowing it down and reaking havoc over my comp. The bad thing is that my virus center doesn't realize it as a virus!!!. So if I run a virus scan it doen't help at all. I went into safe mode and deleted all the programs but when ever i do that and restart my comp again all the programs are back.

All these chinese sites are popping up and its horrible.

The weird thing is I don't know how I got it!

I turned my comp off in the night time, came back in the morning turned it on and all this crap was on here.

Can someone please help me out?

Its driving me crazy!!!!!

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LegoDoom    0

LegoDoom
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use the search, lock this up mods.

I'll save everybody the time.

  • Chadd will suggest updating the virus software.
  • You'll make a snide comment about PCs and suggest buying a Mac.
  • I'll make fun of you.
  • mack will say that his mac hasn't given him any problems yet, but he'll make fun of you also.
  • I'll hold back from ripping on mack about not knowing about computers just because he made fun of you.

Is that about it?

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Vapor    0

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That is not 100% true. OS X is based on Unix which is much more secure than Windows. But who cares what the reason is, the face is that there are no viruses on the platform.

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GoHawks    0

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actually, you can't say there are no viruses for macs now... one or two have been made. I know, I know, compared to the thousands of PC viruses... but like DL said, not a big enough user base for programmers to spend their time on it. Keep riding the Apple train, if/when they get popular enough, I'm sure there will be more to come. Enjoy it now, while it lasts ;)

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Vapor    0

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There has been 1 virius found in the wild. Two were reported, but 1 was reported from a Mac virus scanning company. The virius found in the wild was not an actual virus, it was not malicious either. What you had to do was download the file, extract it, open up the file, install it and run it... if you do all of the above steps, you deserve it. It was a proof of concept virus.

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BK    0

BK
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According to the mac commercials.. you are supposed to be smarter than me. Ask your mac.

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GoHawks    0

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If you haven't fixed the problem yet, AVG Free is the anti-virus software I use, and it has found everything I've had problems with in the past... If you want to try it out, go to www.Download.com and search AVG Free 7.5.

Also, I don't know if you're using a firewall, or what you are using if you are (you need to). Windows Firewall is pretty much a joke, you can get a free version of ZoneAlarm. I've had a few years of experience with it, and it works pretty well. The only problem I have with it are issues with Remote Assist (have to close ZA) and some online/LAN gaming (mostly LAN). again, www.Download.com search ZoneAlarm.

These will cover your anti-virus and firewall problems, but you also need to run anti-spyware/adware stuff too, as mentioned above. CCleaner, Ad Aware, Spybot, are all good. If you run two or three of them, it works better, as Ad Aware will pick up some things Spybot missed, and vice versa. Hope you get it figured out!

Sorry about the ranting, Chadd

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GoHawks    0

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are you running a UNIX system? looked into it, but it says that it doesn't do real-time scanning for Windows, meaning you have to schedule it, and some of the nastier stuff won't get caught right away. How do you like it, mack? *EDIT* er... the program, after reading my post, it didn't quite sound right :ph34r:

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mack    44

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Generally I just had it on my email as a scanner. A couple guys at work in our IT use it as their actual AV and liked it, but after hearing about the scheduling maybe I'd stick with Zone Alarm.

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Eazy_b97    1

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So I think I might be in a little trouble. I was on the computer earlier (now on a different one) and was asked to install ActiveX to watch something. So I do, I've never had problems with it before, but this time I am prompted by the PC saying there's a virus and I need to download some extra virus protection. I watch it for a little bit, read it and don't purchase or download anything. Nothing seems wrong, but my desktop changes and it says I need to download anti-virus stuff. I think it's fishy and research it, turns out I have a virus (smitfraud I believe), but don't know the name. I can't manually find it, so I download a few programs to try and find it (Adaware and AVG) since the computers only anti-virus thing is crap. I wasn't able to delete it and panicked a bit, so I turned off the computer then back on. Tells me I have a virus again and the problems continue. Only now there is no C or D drive listed, only 'A' and a couple shared networks. I downloaded smitfraudfix and ran the scan like I was told to, then went into the safe mode and attempted to delete it, but it appears the virus is still there and the C drive is not accessible. I believe the C drive is still around since the computer is finding problems with the C drive, but I can't locate it. Any suggestions?

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jeffw    1

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That happened to me once and being computer illiterate I pretty much just wiped the hard drive clean and reinstalled all the software.

If you can try downloading and running cw shredder. LINK It got rid of a similar virus when it happened again.

Like someone said before, spybot LINK and ad aware LINK will dig out a lot of junk too.

After all of that stop using IE & install Mozilla Firefox for your browser! LINK

Oh, and quit looking at porn. ;)

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shifter    0

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That happened to me once and being computer illiterate I pretty much just wiped the hard drive clean and reinstalled all the software.

If you can try downloading and running cw shredder. LINK It got rid of a similar virus when it happened again.

Like someone said before, spybot LINK and ad aware LINK will dig out a lot of junk too.

After all of that stop using IE & install Mozilla Firefox for your browser! LINK

Oh, and quit looking at porn. ;)

couldnt agree more :) go to clean websites next time ;)

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