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[Pandut]

ok here goes.,..

every 2 minutes a window pops up saying ''A virus has in fected ur computer
Systems Affaected: PC,Vista,BE,DM''

but starngly i have no idea wut these are and i highly doubt i have them installed on my pc
sp plz help!

[E.V.E.]

Sounds like a virus to me.
Disconnect your Computer from the Internet and do a Virus Scan with your Anti Virus Software.

- E.V.E.

[narboza22]

Virus.

What AV do you have?

[Prophet of the Pimps]

Does your system have service pack 1 or 2?

[Pandut]

tell u tha truth...its not a virus its advertisement, becuz now im getting attack by like 10 differnet windows saying ''download this anti virus program for free!'' exactly every minute...
when a window just pops up and wen i click cancel and it trys to download so i have to stop it manually
and it always happen when i click No, and cancel

and my desktop image keeps getting replaced by a pictured link...
it red and has a hazard sign on it...
and theres now 3 new programs that i did not install on my pc, they just apeared there...
and for the AV weve got Norton, but its sux cuz we did like 2 scans and it didnt find ANYTHING
my sister tk its some sort of spaming thingy to get me to download crap

Edited by Pandut, 13 August 2007 - 14:23.

[Dauth]

trojaned, run spybot S&D hopefully that'll ctach it, otherwise use hijackthis and their forums

[Pandut]

we dont have spybot S&D, and our homepage has been changed, with all this ''ur privacy is longer safe!'' ''downlkoad thias free anti-virus program for 29.99$'' '' ur computer has been infested with pornograpihc material click here to for a free scan''
its even trying to stop me from typing, acsess to internet and playing games!

ok i tried out hijackthis and it really helped
it blocked of most of the really anoyying pop ups but not all

Edited by Pandut, 13 August 2007 - 15:47.

[Dauth]

heres dl link for spybot http://www.safer-net...rors/index.html

[Slightly Wonky Robob]

I had something similar to this in the past, and let me tell you they are a bitch to get rid, in fact there are still a couple of files left over today, that i still cant get rid of (but of course they aren't harmful any more)

The one that i had called itself RazeSpyware, and it kept changing stuff on my computer, like you said, replaced my desktop pic with a page saying i had x amount of viruses, y amount of spyware... etc. and i couldn't change it back to my normal one, the best that i could do was change it to google... pretty useful having google as your background pic But alas every time i logged out and back in, it had changed back. It changed various other settings, that i cant remember now, and my homepage. I also kept getting pop-ups... saying that it was a legitimate sypware removal tool (if it were, it wouldn't need to say that )

Anyway, i tried everything to remove it, i kept getting recommendation's from friends, family, (i think i even asked on here at one point). I kept finding stuff, getting rid of it, running the program again, and then getting the same stuff that i just deleted -_-

If what you have is indeed similar to what i had, i would say get as many anti-spyware and virus programs your HDD can handle, its the best option IMO. Here are some of the things that helped me:

AVG
Spybot S&D
HijackThis
Hitman Pro
Windows Defender
and a couple of task manager programs (cant remember the names) But a good alternative is to open up task manager, look through all the processes, and if there is anything that looks suspiciuos, google it (and delete if needed)

and finally use find, search for names of stuff that keeps popping up, because although some of these viruses are pretty good at beating removal programs, the people still name them something logical

Hope that helps

EDIT: BTW if your not already, i would recommend getting FF and the various pop-up blockers, it may not get rid of virus' but at least it stops new ones coming in =D

[Wanderer]

ad-aware is also a good program. I use ad-aware and spybot and All of my computers are clean. As for virus protection I use avira antivir and sygate firewall, and no viruses anywhere

[Pandut]

ok i downloaded spybot S&D , now....how do i use it?

Edited by Pandut, 14 August 2007 - 15:52.

[Dauth]

install it, use the search for updates tab to get fully up to date, then use the check for problems tab and search for any spyware. Then have it delete any of the stuff you want.

[Pandut]

ok, weres the problems tab i cant find it...

[TehKiller]

ummmm its "Check for problems" tab and it shud be on the left side (at the top)

[Pandut]

ok i just did a ''check fro problems'' scan, there seems to be 5 problems, but it sez nothing about deleting, fixing or reparing...so wut do i do?

...i clicked fix selcted problems, and it froze...and now the pop ups ar coming in even worse...
my desktop image is changed and i cant chagne it back
my hopepage has been changed and i cant change it back
sometimes the internet will freeze when i try to go on...

Edited by Pandut, 14 August 2007 - 17:55.

[Dauth]

OK then the spyware is now trying to avoid being deleted, you need to find out exactly which spyware it is and then we can provide more help

[Pandut]

well i think i might know, for atleast 3 dayz theres been 3 programs that have been installed on the computer, i dont know wut they are or do, but i know for a fact that i, or anyone else did not installed them on my comp...

Spyware&Malware Protection
Error Cleaner
Privacy Protector

but i when i click on them i go straight to the internet, so these programs are links...
ive tried everything to uninstall them
ive normally deleted them, ive gone to the internet and found them in my favoites so i deleted them that way
but every time i turn off my comp, then later i turn it back on...they reinstall them selves back onto my comp
and even when i unplugged my comp from the interent the windows would still pop up and take me all over the interent!

im leaning towardz doing a full-system memory wipe...

Edited by Pandut, 15 August 2007 - 01:14.

[Dauth]

Ive found some links on how to remove the malware you've got listed here.

http://www.techsuppo...elp-please.html -This seems the most complete

http://forums.spywar...howtopic=102437

http://www.castlecop...ostp979419.html

http://forums.majorg...d.php?p=1016916

note these are quite technical and detailed but since you may system wipe, its probably worth trying.

[Pandut]

ok, i just did a system wipe, and it seemed to have worked

Edited by Pandut, 16 August 2007 - 02:03.