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PricklySponge
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| Posted: Mon Apr 17, 2006 2:05 am Post subject: I'm stumped :..( |
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Okay, I know there are some people here who really know what they're doing when it comes to comps so I fugure this is the place to ask for some help:
Basicly, i think I might have a virus, and for the life of me, can get rif of it. I think I got it from downloading MP3's off of limewire, anyways, this is what it seems to be doing.
I have absolutely no internet connection. My wireless router and everything else is woking fine because the other computer on the network is not having trouble with the internet. When I look at internet connection in control panel, the screen is blank, showing me that there are no connections at all.
I canot start up windows firewall
During system startup I have about 13-14 processes, the problem is that under the "user name" collumn in the ctl+alt+del processes section, it leaves the processes all blank, save the system idol process which says "SYSTEM".
I have scanned the computer with Spybot, ad-aware SE personal,AVG Free, Microsoft Antispyware, antivir XP, and The shield antivirus 2005. None of these scans have yeilded any results.
Am I screwed or is there anything else I can do? :-| |
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Sid
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| Posted: Mon Apr 17, 2006 4:04 am Post subject: |
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| It's times like this - that I would say "f**k it" and reformat. Backup all your data, and then go ahead and wipe the hdd. |
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Demonic Spoon
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| Posted: Mon Apr 17, 2006 10:27 am Post subject: |
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System restore point. Go to START, RUN, and type in MSCONFIG.
At the bottom, click on Launch System Restore.
Find a date before the virus was installed and click on it. Restore the system. |
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cap'n queasy
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| Posted: Mon Apr 17, 2006 10:31 am Post subject: |
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Try this.
http://us.mcafee.com/virusInfo/default.asp?path=/virusInfo/virusRemoval/Stinger.asp
Don't restore your system when infected with a virus. |
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Demonic Spoon
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| Posted: Mon Apr 17, 2006 12:47 pm Post subject: |
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| Why? Always worked for me. |
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Æ
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| Posted: Mon Apr 17, 2006 12:57 pm Post subject: |
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cap'n queasy wrote: Try this.
http://us.mcafee.com/virusInfo/default.asp?path=/virusInfo/virusRemoval/Stinger.asp
Don't restore your system when infected with a virus.
How can he do a virus scan from the net if his internet connection isn't working? I suppose he could download all of the fixes and try each one, but there are a heck of a lot of viruses out there.
Situations like this is why I have a second drive with an OS installed on it. I just switch master/slave drives and then you can do a whole bunch of things to it that you could not when it was the master drive. |
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Demonic Spoon
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| Posted: Mon Apr 17, 2006 2:45 pm Post subject: |
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| A system restore should work... |
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David
Joined: 28 Dec 2003
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| Posted: Tue Apr 18, 2006 3:13 am Post subject: |
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Demonic Spoon wrote: A system restore should work...
Only if you have a restore point that is guaranteed to be before the infection.Otherwise you just restore and lose data and still reinfect everything.
Are you sure it's a virus and not just a corrupt file? |
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cap'n queasy
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| Posted: Tue Apr 18, 2006 3:17 am Post subject: |
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aLienaTeD wrote: cap'n queasy wrote: Try this.
http://us.mcafee.com/virusInfo/default.asp?path=/virusInfo/virusRemoval/Stinger.asp
Don't restore your system when infected with a virus.
How can he do a virus scan from the net if his internet connection isn't working? I suppose he could download all of the fixes and try each one, but there are a heck of a lot of viruses out there.
Situations like this is why I have a second drive with an OS installed on it. I just switch master/slave drives and then you can do a whole bunch of things to it that you could not when it was the master drive.
He obviously posted to the forum. He can DL this file and copy to disk.
It gets some viruses that other AV's miss. |
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David
Joined: 28 Dec 2003
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| Posted: Tue Apr 18, 2006 3:29 am Post subject: Re: I'm stumped :..( |
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PricklySponge wrote:
I have absolutely no internet connection. My wireless router and everything else is woking fine because the other computer on the network is not having trouble with the internet. When I look at internet connection in control panel, the screen is blank, showing me that there are no connections at all.
He has another computer networked with the router to get it with. |
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PricklySponge
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| Posted: Tue Apr 18, 2006 11:43 pm Post subject: |
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David wrote:
Are you sure it's a virus and not just a corrupt file?
I am not sure at all... |
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David
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| Posted: Wed Apr 19, 2006 3:56 am Post subject: |
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| Now is when you need the "System File Checker" tool that Windows 98 had. |
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