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tekrom
Joined: Mar 16, 2008
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 Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2008 10:35 am Post subject: virus that makes comp shutdown |
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ok heres what happened i must have downloaded a virus and a weird popup came up saying select a file to crack so the first time i closed out of it my comp just shutdown on the spot and when it booted back up again i tried system restore but after i did that it just kep on shutting down on the windows xp startup bar agian and again so i ran system restore and it started back up but the popup screen came back so i went into task manager and ended the prosses and it didnt shutoff but evrytime i shutoff my computer and turn it on a new sceen showes up. for example the first time i turned it on there was only 1 then the second time there was 2 secreens and so on
can anyone help me im stumped...... |
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tylersmiller
Joined: Oct 26, 2007
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| Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2008 8:48 pm Post subject: |
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Run different Anti virus scanners online and install these:
Ad-Aware
Spybot S&D
run scans using all of these. But the best way to get rid of a virus is to reinstall Windows... |
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tekrom
Joined: Mar 16, 2008
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| Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2008 9:53 pm Post subject: now my antivirus isnt working |
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| s&d detected 369 problems with my comp but it says i have to register to fix them and when i tried to register it it didnt give me a confermation code |
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tylersmiller
Joined: Oct 26, 2007
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tekrom
Joined: Mar 16, 2008
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| Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2008 10:07 pm Post subject: i didnt work |
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| when i ran that one it said it wasnt a valid win32 aplication and when i try to run it in safe mode it wont let me it just restarts my computer |
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tekrom
Joined: Mar 16, 2008
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| Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2008 10:12 pm Post subject: this is the search and destroy i downloaded |
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www.search-and-destroy.com
that one said i had like 369 viruses and so far ad aware is working but its come up with nothing so far i know there is somthing way screwed up with my computer |
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tylersmiller
Joined: Oct 26, 2007
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| Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2008 10:15 pm Post subject: |
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| that web site does not look legit. use the DOWNLOAD.com link above and get that one. I KNOW it is safe. then run it again. |
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