Help Bad Virus.

[Blue-ninja]

You know the virus is bad when it deletes half of your pRon collection...............................-_-;

[Kerrazyeye]

Jeez. Way to start a spamfest ya morons.

Check any unfamiliar processes and terminate them, the viruses will likely just start back up and you can identify them (i usually just google "[whatever].exe" and sites will generally tell you what it is and does). For stuff that infects your windows folders try AVG, because going in and deleting viruses out of there is pretty dangerous.

[a-4-year-old]

be quite  a 4 year old, what if someone beleived you and really set there computer on fire. do you have any idea how dangderous that is? do you know how bad youd feel if your imaturity got somone killed or permanently burned?

DONT LISTEN TO A 4 YEAR OLD. Hes trying to be funny even if it means hurting people

and lumenshroom you insensitive jerk. what if he was just a kid? how would you like it if some big person you trusted on the internet made you delete your hard drive or whatever? computers are expensive. breaking peoples things isnt funny, its immature and wrong.


now for some real help thats actually helpfull and not some idiot trying to be funny: I dont know much about computers but you could try defragmenting. that allways helps.

Biggest fail of the thread.

[jrgp]

Check any unfamiliar processes and terminate them, the viruses will likely just start back up and you can identify them (i usually just google "[whatever].exe" and sites will generally tell you what it is and does). For stuff that infects your windows folders try AVG, because going in and deleting viruses out of there is pretty dangerous.

Well...Windows XP has certain things built in which restores critical files a few seconds after they were removed (I had to trash an XP laptop once in a non physical way..), but yeah, check the process' names and google them. But when it gets to the point where the task manager doesn't work, the only thing you've left to do is to reformat.

[Kerrazyeye]

Check any unfamiliar processes and terminate them, the viruses will likely just start back up and you can identify them (i usually just google "[whatever].exe" and sites will generally tell you what it is and does). For stuff that infects your windows folders try AVG, because going in and deleting viruses out of there is pretty dangerous.

Well...Windows XP has certain things built in which restores critical files a few seconds after they were removed (I had to trash an XP laptop once in a non physical way..), but yeah, check the process' names and google them. But when it gets to the point where the task manager doesn't work, the only thing you've left to do is to reformat.

Last resort hopefully. My dell has a system restore thingy on a partition on the HDD, quite easy to wipe everything back to how it was shipped. I do it every couple of months..

[jrgp]

Check any unfamiliar processes and terminate them, the viruses will likely just start back up and you can identify them (i usually just google "[whatever].exe" and sites will generally tell you what it is and does). For stuff that infects your windows folders try AVG, because going in and deleting viruses out of there is pretty dangerous.

Well...Windows XP has certain things built in which restores critical files a few seconds after they were removed (I had to trash an XP laptop once in a non physical way..), but yeah, check the process' names and google them. But when it gets to the point where the task manager doesn't work, the only thing you've left to do is to reformat.

Last resort hopefully. My dell has a system restore thingy on a partition on the HDD, quite easy to wipe everything back to how it was shipped. I do it every couple of months..

Yes, do that. But do what I said before and put your anti-virus, anti-spyware and firewall installers on a flash drive and install them before you connect your newly installed windows to the internet. Not doing so will have made your restoration a complete waste of time.

[Kerrazyeye]

Meh. I dont have any security junk on my comp. Dont want it using resources. I just be smart with what I download and sites I go to. Virus free since around christmas.

[jrgp]

Meh. I dont have any security junk on my comp. Dont want it using resources. I just be smart with what I download and sites I go to. Virus free since around christmas.

Doing that on a Windows machine is pretty much software-suicide. At least don't use IE and have a hardware firewall set up if you really want to continue doing that....

[Rainbow Concussion]

Hey guys. Well i have this situation. it with a virus.

 Voice ads (i can hear them but i cant see em).

Any help here?

LOLWUT

[STM1993]

Hmm... I'm no expert but some ideas (the experts can point out if this doesn't work):

1. FIRST, clear the cookies/cache/history etc of your internet
2. After you do that, delete those two .dll files AND the files they created.

You would need to try some other methods as well. I cannot guarantee if anything works.



LAST RESORT (do not do this yet):
But worst come to worst, if you can't solve the problem and it's getting out of hand or annoying you too much, you'd have to reformat your computer. Which means, everything in your computer will be gone, so you have to reinstall a whole load of stuff. You may want to make some backups (this is depending on the situation). But note that you should avoid making backups of areas that you suspect may carry the virus.

If after reformatting, and you have the backup, you may want to try putting the backup inside. If the virus appears again, delete all the backup files. Still doesn't work, reformat a second time and looks like you'd have to start from scratch (no backups whatsoever).

[Exodus]

Is there such thing as good viruses?

[jrgp]

1. FIRST, clear the cookies/cache/history etc of your internet
2. After you do that, delete those two .dll files AND the files they created.

@1: Clearing that stuff won't do anything to remove or protect you from viruses and spyware. It might help adware bots get confused and give you random ads, but that won't really solve the problem.

@2: You probably won't have a way of knowing what files they created.

But worst come to worst, if you can't solve the problem and it's getting out of hand or annoying you too much, you'd have to reformat your computer. Which means, everything in your computer will be gone, so you have to reinstall a whole load of stuff. You may want to make some backups (this is depending on the situation). But note that you should avoid making backups of areas that you suspect may carry the virus.

If after reformatting, and you have the backup, you may want to try putting the backup inside. If the virus appears again, delete all the backup files. Still doesn't work, reformat a second time and looks like you'd have to start from scratch (no backups whatsoever).

Yeah, I suggest he does that right now anyway. Windows is always going to be a temporary operating system; I mean no matter how long you have it installed and protected, eventually you will need to reformat&reinstall at some point or another.

its 2 .dlls and i cant delete either of them(Acces denied). but when i delete the files the .dlls use to create the ads, they just are recreated.

If they are recreated instantly, they could be part of Windows. A possibly infected part of Windows. What are their filenames?

Is there such thing as good viruses?

99.9^-% no.

[Mothafix]

Grisoft didnt work. It finds it and i press delete and it never actualy deletes it. it just keeps finding it and reporting to me that its a trojan.


EDIT: Thanks for Dr. Delete! i was able to delete the files i thought were viruses thank you!

Problem solved already?

[LeetFidle]

@2: You probably won't have a way of knowing what files they created.


I actualy do know what ones they create. i have deleted those 2 .dlls but those other files still seem to get created(one that is created is called "Videocapture"). AVG has found another virus, but still not deleting it. i tryed going to the folder it was in c:\RECYCLER but no luck nothing shows up.


EDIT: i already deleted the dlls. but one was called Lovefly.dll and another one called 887vxqt.dll(somthing like that) but that was the one that always came up was trojan horse on AVG.

[Mangled*]

Wow.... so many retards. Stick to Linux jrgp.

Open task manager, locate the process which is using the .dll's, end it and then delete the .dll's then delete the .exe or compromise it by changing the file extension, then promptly stop using internet explorer. If you can't manage that by yourself then you should reformat and get a good anti-virus (and by good I mean anything other than Norton).

[jrgp]

Open task manager, locate the process which is using the .dll's, end it and then delete the .dll's then delete the .exe or compromise it by changing the file extension, then promptly stop using internet explorer. If you can't manage that by yourself then you should reformat and get a good anti-virus (and by good I mean anything other than Norton).

A lot of times viruses disable the task manager.. If it does manage to come up, do End Process Tree on the bad processes.

[LeetFidle]

Well i got rid of the ads. but i still feel the viruses are there. oh well.


@Mangled.
Can you explain why norton is suck? I belive you but i try to explain to my dad that its the dumbest antivirus, and it never comes out right.(he belives notron is god AV)

[Lumen-Shroom]

be quite  a 4 year old, what if someone beleived you and really set there computer on fire. do you have any idea how dangderous that is? do you know how bad youd feel if your imaturity got somone killed or permanently burned?

DONT LISTEN TO A 4 YEAR OLD. Hes trying to be funny even if it means hurting people

and lumenshroom you insensitive jerk. what if he was just a kid? how would you like it if some big person you trusted on the internet made you delete your hard drive or whatever? computers are expensive. breaking peoples things isnt funny, its immature and wrong.


now for some real help thats actually helpfull and not some idiot trying to be funny: I dont know much about computers but you could try defragmenting. that allways helps.

Oh.

My.

GOD.

If this kid is idiotic enough to FLAMETHROWER his harddrive he deserves any death that may result.

Yes, because deleting System 32 obviously deletes your hard-drive.

LERN2COMPUTER

Oh, Ok. Let's defragment his PC. That will magically make the virus go away.

Don't talk about things you know nothing about.

On a more serious note, don't delete random .dlls which you think are viruses. That's a one step trip to shit creek.

Instead, install Avast! Antivirus and set it to scan on startup. Restart your PC.

[Flamingo]

This topic: i think u shud defarg bcuz i had simelier probelems n they go awey w/ defrag

[LeetFidle]

Remember Lumen. First page. Avast! didnt work.