Just kidding of course... Just do it with your virus protection on!
Oooh! U bad!
Posted on 07/29/2004 6:02:28 PM PDT by fiftymegaton
I have recently contracted the internet trojan horse or virus or whatever you call it which automatically changes your homepage to about:blank(some weird search engine). This trojan didn't really bother me until recently(last night) it started automatically coming up when I would go to check my e-mail(both a hotmail and a yahoo account). I can type in my ID and password but then instead of getting my mail page I get the about:blank page and hence I cannot send or receive any e-mails at this time. I have Symantecs anti-Virus and have downloaded Adaware and neither has helped this problem. I run IE 5.5 at the moment and was wondering if downloading the often praised mozilla browser would help with this current problem. Any advice is welcome!
Be sure to do an update after you install it, doesn't make much sense to scan without the most recent information.
I'm not technical at all but....
Something got ahold of my computer yesterday that crippled it. I tried my Adaware and Spybot but I still kept getting hijacked by some nasty.
With help, I ran the run menu and typed in msconfig. The nasty little buggers were in my start-up cycle and needed to be disabled.
Just kidding of course... Just do it with your virus protection on!
Oooh! U bad!
If you have the one that renames itself with random numbers and letters everytime you try to remove it, you could be in for a big battle. McAfee security suite can fix this version, but I've had to remove infected hard drives and scan them from a clean pc. Try running all of the adware removers listed by others in Safe Mode too. Make sure Explorer is the only running program. Check by using Ctrl-Alt-Del .
I don't think *I'm* any quicker than anybody else. I've just had lots of practice taking this off both my Dad's computer and the machines at work. Two things to avoid it:
1. Scabby websites (I don't have to anymore specific, do I? ;) ) are to avoided.
2. Anything with .ru in it's address is to be avoided like an pissed off ape hot with ebola.
I end up touching someone's machine about once a quarter for this sort of thing. I'm continually amazed by how much crap people have managed to accumulate, and that the machines are even still running. Some *barely* are. When you've got a machine that's approaching 4 digits in items found in Ad-Aware, you know you've got a live one.
Thank you all for the timely advice. Evidently it was good advice because I can now check my e-mail(hopefully it will stay that way). I downloaded CWShredder, Spybot Search & Destroy, a program called A-Squared(that I found while trying to look up Anti-Trojan), and I had already had AdAware. I ran them all once then ran them all again in Safe Mode and then I ran them all again just to be sure and now my PC is working. Thank you all again you deserve a pat on the back.
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