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Um... what the hell?

By Eregion2 on 26/11/2010
Restarted my computer earlier and when I came back there were multiple windows of Firefox opened (blank) and several notepad pages saying FOLLOW THE WHITE RABBIT....-MORPHIAS. I haven't been able to google any sort of virus that's known to do something like this and Avast! didn't find anything, anybody have a clue what's going on? unsure.gif

By Randy on 26/11/2010
You are the one.

By WG_Keanu on 26/11/2010
Well the idiot who programmed it spelled "Morpheus" wrong so it won't be too hard to fix.

Try a different Antivirus software. Free ones are shit, if you can afford it get Norton or Kaspersky. If all else fails, I use a system restore. It's the worst way possible to get rid of viruses but it's worked twice for me so far.

By Eregion2 on 26/11/2010
Yeah, at this point I'm more bemused than pissed. I've tried several different antivirus programs and none of them have found anything, and nothing else has been acting strangely. At this point I'm just wondering if it was a practical joke sort of thing that deleted itself after making a cute Matrix reference. mellow.gif

By Eregion2 on 26/11/2010
Huh... well I restarted and it definitely hasn't gone away. And looking around there's weird files all over the place:
QUOTE
[.ShellClassInfo]
LocalizedResourceName=@%SystemRoot%\system32\shell32.dll,-21801
IconResource=%SystemRoot%\system32\imageres.dll,-3
QUOTE
[.ShellClassInfo]
IconFile=folder.ico
IconIndex=0
ConfirmFileOp=0
Example of what was in two of them. I'm completely clueless and the internet isn't helping much here.

By Eregion2 on 26/11/2010
Found all the original problem pages here:

C:\Users\Username\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup

So they just pop up whenever I start, nice. Now to figure out how they got there.

By Eregion2 on 28/11/2010
... roommates ...

By WG_Keanu on 28/11/2010
QUOTE: Eregion2 @ November 28, 2010 10:46 am)
... roommates ...

Lol'ed IRL tongue.gif



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