As if its not bad enough now I have to spend all day Monday getting rid of a PC VIRUS

[Deleted member 1779]

As if things are not bad enough and hard enough out there in the working world I have had to spend all day Monday trying to shift this PC Virus that infected one of my PC's.

I have one PC (the left one) to deal with email and internet.

I have the other PC (the right one) to deal with internet ecommerce website.

And now its sucking the hours out of the day trying to get rid of this rubbish as I am TRYING to get on with some real work.

Grrrrrr

 

[nybor62]

Re: As if its not bad enough now I have to spend all day Monday getting rid of a PC V

what virus software do you use i use avg , awsome never have a problem

 

[Deleted member 1779]

Re: As if its not bad enough now I have to spend all day Monday getting rid of a PC V

Its PCTOOLS

 

[nybor62]

Re: As if its not bad enough now I have to spend all day Monday getting rid of a PC V

to be honest ,that aint good enough imo, other wise you would,nt be getting them

 

[Gazzer]

Re: As if its not bad enough now I have to spend all day Monday getting rid of a PC V

Didi it say what virus it was ?

 

[Deleted member 1779]

Re: As if its not bad enough now I have to spend all day Monday getting rid of a PC V

Yes its the XP Home security 2012 virus and at the moment the system is slooowllllly going through my PC trying to remove it.
I have a backup PC at the factory so its not the end of the world if we lose this one. But still a pain.

Hey thats life!

 

[nybor62]

Re: As if its not bad enough now I have to spend all day Monday getting rid of a PC V

i use avg internet security2012 +avg pc tuneup, i download loads of stuff , had no probs

 

[nybor62]

Re: As if its not bad enough now I have to spend all day Monday getting rid of a PC V

Yes its the XP Home security 2012 virus and at the moment the system is slooowllllly going through my PC trying to remove it.
I have a backup PC at the factory so its not the end of the world if we lose this one. But still a pain.

Hey thats life!

yeah its a rouge spyware, it will prompt you to download windows security software, when actually you are down loading a virus

 

[kendo1]

Re: As if its not bad enough now I have to spend all day Monday getting rid of a PC V

Two free anti-virus software gets rid of this.
Superantispyware and Spybot-search and destroy.
The trouble is getting them on to your computer.
Another way is to reset to a previous restore point, but the virus stops you doing anything.
So, you have to restart and try F8 for safe start. If this does not work, try again with F12 and you should be able to enter system restore.

Once up and running you should try a new anti-virus.

 

[Deleted member 1779]

Re: As if its not bad enough now I have to spend all day Monday getting rid of a PC V

Yes cheers for the info. I am busy doing the fixes above and at the moment scanning the PC to see if I can get rid of the virus. So far has taken Alllll Day and Allll evening... Will leave it running overnight.

 

[kendo1]

Re: As if its not bad enough now I have to spend all day Monday getting rid of a PC V

Let me know how you get on...

 

[bobbynz]

Re: As if its not bad enough now I have to spend all day Monday getting rid of a PC V

Good one Kendo, I agree with the spybot, it works really well.And once its cleaned up you really want to get a decent security suite. I use Nortons and and since I have I've not had a problem at all and I download heaps of stuff. If you use the spybot just make sure you have a back up of your important clean files. Spybot is quite an aggressive cleaner so check its settings before you run it.

 

[MTiler]

Re: As if its not bad enough now I have to spend all day Monday getting rid of a PC V

I got so p'd off with my PC with viruses and PC World not helping. I was thinking of getting a laptop for when I have to work away so last year I scrapped it and bought a MacBook. I love my MacBook

 

[Deleted member 1779]

Re: As if its not bad enough now I have to spend all day Monday getting rid of a PC V

I have heard that the Macbooks are much better. I was thinking of trying to get into some software that lets you do your own editing of photoshop style stuff for leaflets and advertising blurb.

And it seems that most people vouch for the macbooks. But I think I might be a bit old and stupid to start learning a new skill again.

At the moment I run my PC's and a very old copy of Dreamweaver to keep the website up to date.

PS: Its Saturday 21/01/2012 and the good news is virus gone and PC back to its self.

Now thats what my office SHOULD look like !!!!

Hoorrayyyy

 

[kendo1]

Re: As if its not bad enough now I have to spend all day Monday getting rid of a PC V

This virus adds itself to the start up menu.
You can check to see if it is gone completely by going to 'run' and typing 'msconfig' and then press 'enter' (or by entering safe mode if you are still infected). The virus also (sometimes) disables the F12 menu at start up.
From the System Configuration Utility that pops up got to the 'start up' tab and scroll down to the bottom to where the virus will have added a ticked box with a line of numbers after it. This is command to load the virus at start up.
Simply untick the box and then press 'apply'.

You'll be asked to restart, so do so. The virus is disabled.
If the line of numbers is still there, but unticked, you still need to get rid of it properly.
Superantispyware seems to do it and Housecall by Hijackthis does too.


Enjoy!

Ken