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Smooth Hound · Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2009 12:37 pm Post subject: major virus

i seem to have picked up major virus problems, so wont be on as its too difficult , i cant work out problem, so ill be back when ive got it sorted, and as i have no cash, that maybe sometime,

wildgarlic · Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2009 1:02 pm Post subject:

try downloading free software - avg, avast or similar or even download ubuntu and boot from that (would that help? Martin? Iain?)

Anyway - what are the symptoms?
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Smooth Hound · Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2009 3:16 pm Post subject:

some personal antivirus thing with a yellow shield is telling me i tried it for 2 weeks

now my avg is giving me allerts as well every 5 secs , so ive got to clear it, so this is a nightmare writingthis, i have free avg , says its active, i also have the extra 24 pound identity thing from them,
and i dont know what rebbot means

ive heard it said, but really havent a clue, the avg warning is a security allert, with a list, ive tried doing what they say, but it confuses me, cause its not working,
its a multiple threat and its a shield alert, from avg, and it suggests clearing one at a time, but i really just dont understand this, some of the threats say to rebbot though. someone please explain.

wildgarlic · Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2009 3:19 pm Post subject:

It's very possible that it is from Farm Town as lots of users have been claiming the same. Is it spyware protect 2009 that pops up?

http://www.xp-vista.com/spyware-removal/spyware-protect-2009-removal
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Smooth Hound · Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2009 3:22 pm Post subject:

i did think that actually, what should i do

Smooth Hound · Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2009 3:37 pm Post subject:

ok i think i can do it, but one thing, how do i reboot

Sassinak · Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2009 3:56 pm Post subject:

Reboot basically means switch your machine off completely and then restart it
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Smooth Hound · Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2009 4:29 pm Post subject:

so just shutting down and starting again, right, ta

IainC · Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2009 6:29 pm Post subject:

http://www.microsoft.com/security/malwareremove/default.aspx

Try downloading that and running it and see if it helps. We had a trojan get onto a machine at work, despite the right anti virus being in place, etc.

Sounds like a similar kind of one, not only do you get bothered by all kinds of things, your PC is actually spamming the world (if it's the same one), we picked up on the machine firing a heap of email out. The MS removal tool sorted it out though.

Smooth Hound · Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2009 7:37 pm Post subject:

thanks folks things are in progress, major one this one

i think, but im getting there