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 Pokey Level: 57 Posts: 529/693 EXP: 1437901 Next: 48027 Since: 06-27-07 From: cKy Last post: 274 days Last view: 182 days |
My computer is having abnormal symptoms from something.
I'm sure this is all caused by a virus. - Images won't load on IE unless I do "show pictures", it's just a square, circle, triangle image. - pop ups are coming up on both IE and Firefox I did a virus scan but nothing came up, I'm doing another one right now. Can anyone help me identify the virus and or tell me how to remove it? ____________________ 
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Pokey Level: 57 Posts: 530/693 EXP: 1437901 Next: 48027 Since: 06-27-07 From: cKy Last post: 274 days Last view: 182 days |
Well the popups were telling me to download virus scanners and registry cleaners and crap, but then I downloaded Trend Micro and swept my computer like 6 times and the pop ups are gone, and virus warnings are 90% gone. ____________________
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 Shyguy Level: 23 Posts: 55/89 EXP: 66070 Next: 1653 Since: 07-17-07 From: Arizona, US Last post: 4694 days Last view: 319 days |
The remaining warnings might just be overly clever/persistent pop-ups. I occasionally even get those "virus/spyware warning" pop-ups in Linux (complete with the Windows-style window border  ). |
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Pokey Level: 57 Posts: 531/693 EXP: 1437901 Next: 48027 Since: 06-27-07 From: cKy Last post: 274 days Last view: 182 days |
No way, they were real viruses, since AVG has never warned me of threats until I got viruses, or at least active viruses.
So I downloaded malwarebytes' anti-malware and it raped the remaining viruses I had. A lot of them were lurking in system32 so it could launch when the operating system ran. I'll thoroughly confirm if they're gone later on, so maybe you can go grab malwarebyte when some lame virus gets on your comp. ____________________
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 Red Cheep-cheep Level: 33 Posts: 203/204 EXP: 220680 Next: 8499 Since: 10-15-08 From: A Wormhole, John Chrichton! Last post: 5630 days Last view: 5594 days |
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 Giant Red Paratroopa Level: 78 Posts: 19/1443 EXP: 4195355 Next: 186871 Since: 06-15-08 From: Earth Last post: 85 days Last view: 85 days |
Perhaps everyone has already heard about that new worm that's been going around. Here's a link for more information about it.
http://www.itbusiness.ca/it/client/en/Home/News.asp?id=51710&cid=7 Generally, if you watch what you click on and ensure that you have all your updates, you should be okay.
Sorry if this sort of pulls away from the original virus problem that this topic was about. I just thought it would be a helpful note to anyone who may need it or did not already know about it. |
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Pokey Level: 57 Posts: 542/693 EXP: 1437901 Next: 48027 Since: 06-27-07 From: cKy Last post: 274 days Last view: 182 days |
I got my new computer and it has mcAfee.
Do virus scanners scan the whole data of files, so if I scanned and it came up with nothing, and extracted a zip, there would definently be no viruses? ____________________
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 Cape Luigi Level: 131 Posts: 3326/4792 EXP: 26364053 Next: 60567 Since: 03-15-07 Last post: 3798 days Last view: 3710 days |
Posted by CKY-9KYes, it will scan the files within a zip/etc archive. No anti-virus program is perfect, if it says there are no viruses then most likely there aren't, but it's impossible to be 100% sure. ____________________ |
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Giant Red Paratroopa Level: 78 Posts: 48/1443 EXP: 4195355 Next: 186871 Since: 06-15-08 From: Earth Last post: 85 days Last view: 85 days |
Cool. If you're using McAfee, you should also look into getting McAfee SiteAdvisor. When you use search engines like Google or Yahoo!, you'll be able to see which sites are safe and which are potential risks. It's a really handy tool. Most downloaded files that could potentially have viruses can be avoided if you stick to downloading files from safe sites. |
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