Does anyone know anything about this Virus? Its kicking one of my guys ass right now and I'm running out of ideas here.... it has taken away most of my admin privileges and is keeping me from being able to clear the registry or even locate files to delete...I got some stuff off of google but most of that bases the fixes off of being able to access the registry LAME!!!!
No clue. Hopefully someone can help out. I've been running NOD32 on every machine I have for years now and I've never gotten a bug. :shrug:
What is your OS, XP or Vista? What Antivirus SW are you using? Need input Stephanie... Number 5 is ALIVE!
THe OS is XP Pro and Norton is the current antivirus however....this virus has taken away nortons ability to scan
Norton is your biggest problem. I can not help you on that one. If it were Vista, I may have had a fix. lol My suggestion would be to 1) call Symentac 2) call The Geek Squad from Best Buy.
not my system big ron haha the virus itself is a nasty one lol....it actually embeds programs into your control panel programs and creates the fax virus software it then changes all your system settings so that you can basically do nothing about it.... then it pulls in other malware code from other programs and puts them on your computer so you concentrait your efforts on getting rid of them....then you are tricked into "buying" the vista antivirus software which leads to you getting your CC stolen hahaha... this is on a work system and worst case i'll have him ship his computer out and get a new one instead of wasting anymore of my time on it lol
work comp! ship it off! Make those monkeys deal with it. If it was mine I'd format the hard drive and start from scratch. Screw'em!!!
Norton's not bad, what's your prob with Norton Ron? The biggest prob with nasty virus's these days is the first thing they usually do is take out your anti-virus progam, whatever it may be, then it goes to town on your computer and by the time you realize you have it you're hosed. I can usually tell I've got a virus prob when Norton doesn't work properly, once I notice it acting up I get busy checking for a virus. My suggestion Stevo is to go to Symantec's website and let it scan the computer and go from there, hopefully it can fix it. AND STAY OFF THE PORN SITES!! Lol!
yup, i would try the online scan but i doubt it will work. my advice is download avast, let it install (in a new windows account) and reboot your pc. it should find the virus and delete it in the boot up scan.
create a Nortons Boot Disk, Or boot up is Safe mode and run the AV. I dont have Nortons anymore, too much $$$ Plus i have Macpro's. The PC's my kids use i installed Avast, Its free and works good,
I've heard that NOD32 is the absolute nuts but... DELL is shipping my laptop with a 3yr subscription anti-virus install. Choice are: McAfee (security suite?) - dell recommended... Norton Trend Micro I think I've heard good things about Trend? I've always considered McAfee and Norton to be about on par with each other with McAfee having an edge but being a resource hog. Suggestions? I'm assuming I should just uninstall and go with NOD32? I'm pretty well firewalled here with both firmware and ZoneAlarm Pro. Also running ZoneAlarm's anti-virus. By the way, I also run Spybot's resident thing which blocks (prompts) most registry changes for confirmation.
Ummm, do you have registry restore points turned off? It not you could see when the last one was taken and boot with that right? It's been so long since I've done that I've forgot how or what. You interrupt the boot sequence at the right time and go from there? select the restore point you want and it boots with that.
I had this one.... Slipped through NAV2008 and hit almost INSTANTLY. :sick: Every time I went to open something, it asked me what program I should use to open a *.exe file. :zorro::cry2: I just wiped the system and reinstalled everything.
see below haha not my computer douche! hahahahaa its not my computer and without access i cant tell what his settings were....i tried to get into the registry but it kept giving me "contact your local admin" when i AM the freaking admin lol That was my first thought as well to just format and start again...its a waste of my time to spend it on doing that so I can just have him ship it back to IT Support and they just give him a new one...they will totally format it again or just throw a new HD in it and toss the other one....i dont know or care what they do with it lol
I've been using my macbook the past week...lots of techie news about this virus coming thru my email though...scary!
Oh, well. You didn't say he was remote now did you? Haha, I'm on of those guys who would have been on the phone with you while you were trying to fix it and going "It says contact you local admin. Why don't you transfer me to the admin.". Usually got me disconnected by the second time but I had already resigned myself to getting re-imaged at that point and it was worth the laugh. :grin:
My neighbor's wife scored the "Vista Antivirus" virus late one night. Of course I got the call. :grin: Google the name and there are several resources that explain how to thoroughly remove it. If I can find the one I used, I'll post it here. IIRC, it's looking for Morgan/Stanley account information. I guess they fired the wrong geek. LOL The virus LOOKS LEGIT! It's got the POS...oops...I mean, Windows 'shield' and everything. But notice that the colors in the shield are not in their proper location. - Norton is a f-ing joke. - McAfee isn't much better. - TrendMicro is what professional hackers use to protect their systems (and what I use on the lone PC here). Your call.
