Switch to Ubuntu 9.10.
Warning to all. New virus may have come from link off FR.
Taking the hard drive out and scanning it ‘hot swapped’ into an external box from another machine might work.
As long as the drive itself is not the active drive, the virus should not be a problem and should be able ot be removed.
Operative word being ‘should’.
Also, you need to know what the file name and location is that you are looking to delete.
I don’t have any advice, but I can sympathize. I just had our computer crash due to something called Advanced Virus Remover. Killed every virus remover I tried to use. All advice I found online about how to get rid of it did not work.
Malwarebytes will install and run under safe mode, that’s what I would try first.
My sympathies-—I feel for you.
My computer was captured 2 years ago by “Antivirus 2008” and before I knew it had disabled all. I tried everything including re install. Nothing worked. Cost? 200 dollars.
A few months ago another bad one - forgot the name - cost 200 dollars.
The tech told me that it was targeting certain websites - my computer got infected when I visited Michelle Malkin’s site.
A simple Google search came up with.
http://htlogs.com/what-is-siszyd32-exe-how-to-remove-siszyd32-exe/
I hope you know how to edit your startup programs.
The author of every virus program should be identified, tracked down, dragged into the street and summarily executed. These people cause billions of dollars in damage and aggravation for no purpose other than anarchy.
Get a Mac?
Seriously, I use my ancient iMac for web cruising and physically isolate my wintel box from the internet as much as possible.
Wish I knew a simple cheap way to resurrect yours, though.
are you logged in?
Computer virus writers should be shot between the eyes.
A few weeks back two of our home laptops were hit by Anti-Virus System Pro, or some such malware. The av software we had did not catch it. Evertime we would try to run Norton, or go to a website on the pc to download the repair for this, we would be given error messages that this site could not be found, or that process could not be run. It got to the point we couldn’t connect to the internet.
What I had to do first was...as soon as the pc booted up, I had to ctrl alt del to get to the task manager, and then END the processes that were launching this bullshiite virus. Once I did this, I was able to copy (via thumb drive), the fix. Which really didn’t work, I still had to go into the registry and delete a bunch of files related to this virus.
I guess the best anyone can do is to have or in future get for $50.00 a year.
Carbonite is just about flawless. Just install it, launch it, and forget about it.”
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Do you have quick restore?
Strips down you hard drive to new
Another thing - I picked up a virus from an FR jump that caused all my searches with Bing or Dogpile to go to other websites ... still does it so I had to use a backup drive and reinstall Explorer and Firefox ... data was ok .....
Try this website - has some info about that virus:
http://htlogs.com/what-is-siszyd32-exe-how-to-remove-siszyd32-exe/
This is a harmful program.
Name: siszyd32
Filename: siszyd32.exe
Command: %userProfile%\start menu\programs\startup\siszyd32.exe
Startup Type: StartUp folder
HijackThis Category: O4
HijackThis Line:
O4 – Startup: siszyd32.exe
DDS Line:
StartupFolder: c:\documents and settings\user\start menu\programs\startup\siszyd32.exe
Combofix/RSIT Line:
C:\Documents and Settings\user\Start Menu\Programs\Startup
siszyd32.exe
Description: trojan
How to remove: use HijackThis ( http://www.myantispyware.com/2005/12/05/hijackthis-your-first-tool-for-remove-homepage-hijackers/ ) + Kaspersky virus removal tool ( http://www.myantispyware.com/2009/03/26/how-to-use-kaspersky-virus-removal-tool/ )
Another website that might be helpful:
http://www.virusremovalguru.com/?p=4914
If you know how, you can create a bootable CD (or floppy) with the proper OS that can access your hard drive and run a good virus program (compatible with the booted OS). This takes a little more technical skills and tools than you may have.
Other FReepers have mentioned removing your hard drive and connecting it as a slave (secondary) drive on another system, (or same system if you have a secondary drive that is also bootable - just swap the primary and secondary connectors). Then you can boot to a clean OS and run the anti-virus program or removal tools on the secondary (original primary) drive.
Hope this helps.
I frequent Free Republic alot. Never though of getting a dedicated FR PC though.