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Posted: May 6, 2010 07:41 pm  | |||
      IRC Nickname: Kiwi011 Group: Emeritus Posts: 3052 Member No.: 40 Joined: December 30, 2007 Total Events Attended: 21    | Yea, so my computer got fucked. Every minute or so theres another alert that a virus is put on my computer, and every....30mins or so some porn site gets poped up onto my screen. Should i totally reformat my computer. Can they get any of my passwords, or cc info if I haven't used any of it since this has happened? Its totally locked me out of pretty much everything. Soooo um....I still have safemode to work with, but is that enough? How do I reformat or w/e the computer and yea. Any help would be awesome. --------------------  | ||
Posted: May 6, 2010 07:55 pm | |||
 IRC Nickname: Sativas Group: Elite Guardian Posts: 2255 Member No.: 1305 Joined: August 29, 2008 Total Events Attended: 155 | Do you know if you have a recovery device? What version of windows are you running? --------------------  The Ultimate Skilling and Combat Badges Updated June 17th, 2011        | ||
Posted: May 6, 2010 08:05 pm | |||
 IRC Nickname: Bam Group: Emeritus Posts: 2762 Member No.: 131 Joined: January 20, 2008 Total Events Attended: 111 | just enjoy the free porn. --------------------   | ||
Posted: May 6, 2010 08:10 pm | |||
 IRC Nickname: Dallar Group: Event Leader Posts: 1899 Member No.: 1957 Joined: July 16, 2009 Total Events Attended: 137 |
/topic Normally I just format my pc completely when I get infected. I never experienced that a anti-virus can remove totally. --------------------  Click me if you need cheering up - I guarantee happiness will blossom | ||
Posted: May 6, 2010 08:46 pm | |||
| IRC Nickname: Group: Elite Guardian Posts: 7306 Member No.: 47 Joined: December 30, 2007 Total Events Attended: 343 | Take it into a repair store. -------------------- July 5, 2007 - June 27, 2011 | ||
Posted: May 6, 2010 10:03 pm | |||
 IRC Nickname: Wayne|Eregion2 Group: Emeritus Posts: 3087 Member No.: 156 Joined: January 25, 2008 Total Events Attended: 8 | Tried a system restore? The Avast! reboot scan is pretty epic; if neither of those work I'm out of ideas. --------------------  | ||
Posted: May 7, 2010 12:12 am | |||
 IRC Nickname: Vephy Group: Elite Guardian Posts: 6186 Member No.: 813 Joined: June 10, 2008 Total Events Attended: 478 | Stop looking at porn. --------------------   | ||
Posted: May 7, 2010 03:02 am | |||
 IRC Nickname: Matt|Georgio9 Group: Emeritus Posts: 706 Member No.: 94 Joined: January 3, 2008 Total Events Attended: 0 | System Restore is probably disabled I'm guessing and it's usually of no use anyways. If you can, get a hold of a linux livecd/usb and you should be either be able to recover any files that you need to keep. Then just wipe the drive and start again. My advice is to make a data partition and an OS partition. That way your data is pretty much always separate from the OS. I also strongly advice you to install linux to a partition especially if you get viruses often. It's just such a big safety net in case windows screws up. --------------------   | ||
Posted: May 7, 2010 01:49 pm | |||
 IRC Nickname: DG_Keanu Group: Council Posts: 4782 Member No.: 2033 Joined: August 25, 2009 Total Events Attended: 173 | System Restore should be your last option in the event of viruses. In terms of Antivirus, pretty much all the best ones you have to buy. If you want to invest, I reccomend Kaspersky, but otherwise Avast and AVG are usually basic protection. I think the separate partitions idea is a good idea, although haven't done it myself so I don't know. --------------------  [05:42] <+WG_Keanu> I think I got a semi just looking at the pic [05:42] <%kat> same | ||
Posted: May 8, 2010 08:01 pm | |||
| IRC Nickname: Maxrobinsun Group: Emeritus Posts: 152 Member No.: 2095 Joined: October 16, 2009 Total Events Attended: 0 | If you can find the virus then getting rid of it won't be too much trouble, I would make sure there is absolutely no hope of fixing it before starting over because it would save having to reinstall everything. For the future, I would recommend something like Acronis, or some other realtime backup tool, which just backs up your PC every 10 minutes (only changes not the whole thing) so you can restore it from pretty any point you have a log from, in the same way as system restore but with data files too. Also you might want to invest in Comodo, it's a free Firewall but it also prevents programs from changing things around on your computer (some people find it too invasive but you get used to it) and it can help you spot problems when they appear. -------------------- Joined September '04 | ||
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