I've got a virus.

[whycantibelinus]

Do you have any idea how you got the virus?

Out of curiosity.

His comp probably has an addiction to prostitutes. Mine did a while back but he went to rehab and is all better now. =-)

 

[Binerexis]

What antivirus program and antimalware program were you using? Were they up to date? How often did you scan? How do you think you got the virus?

AVG and Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware. Used them at least once a week. They were up to date as far as I knew. I think I got the virus from pirated games.

At least you'll learn one of two things from this.

1. Not to download pirate games
2. Think a bit more before double clicking a .exe file from a torrent

 

[Akai Shizuku]

First off, go to another computer and GET THOSE DRIVERS, do that before your reformat.

I'd suggest not taking the irreplaceable, if it's a word file, try to retype, if it's a picture file, go upload it online to tinypic.com They MAY be infected, and frankly you don't want that on the new computer.

Secondly, some virus' plug them selves onto USB drives.

Frankly just nuke it, and move on. From the sounds of it there's no going back.


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Side note, can someone reccomend me a good firewall/antivirus something? Just something to PREVENT them coming in.

Thanks.

I'm not quite sure what you mean by "get those drivers". Could you please explain to me? ^_^"

Probably means the drivers you got on cd when you bought the computer (video card driver/motherboard drivers/whatever special stuff's in your computer drivers)

You can all get them (the latest version too) from the web though, if you can at least get your internet connection up and running (probably on the motherboard drivers, if your LAN card is integrated)

My mom threw them out. Where exactly can I go on the web to get them?

My ISP is Rogers, if that's important.

 

[Bluelaser]

Download a lesser know av, the virus might not recognize it.

 

[Mekado]

First off, go to another computer and GET THOSE DRIVERS, do that before your reformat.

I'd suggest not taking the irreplaceable, if it's a word file, try to retype, if it's a picture file, go upload it online to tinypic.com They MAY be infected, and frankly you don't want that on the new computer.

Secondly, some virus' plug them selves onto USB drives.

Frankly just nuke it, and move on. From the sounds of it there's no going back.


____________

Side note, can someone reccomend me a good firewall/antivirus something? Just something to PREVENT them coming in.

Thanks.

I'm not quite sure what you mean by "get those drivers". Could you please explain to me? ^_^"

Probably means the drivers you got on cd when you bought the computer (video card driver/motherboard drivers/whatever special stuff's in your computer drivers)

You can all get them (the latest version too) from the web though, if you can at least get your internet connection up and running (probably on the motherboard drivers, if your LAN card is integrated)

My mom threw them out. Where exactly can I go on the web to get them?

My ISP is Rogers, if that's important.

It's not.You'll get these drivers from your motherboard manufacturer, not your ISP,they are physical devices drivers.

 

[Akai Shizuku]

first off, if your anti virus is norton or macafee:

GET THE FUCK RID OF IT!!!!!!

and then go get something GOOD. both avira antivir and avast! antivirus are good ones, and both are freeware. the first one in fact has the highest detection rate of any av program and one of the lowest rates for false positives.

in any case, if you nuke the hard drive make sure to put a good av program on BEFORE you transfer back any saved files, otherwise you run the risk of getting that nasty virus back if one of them happens to be infected. most likely none of them will be but its best to not take any chances.

to wipe the hard drive just put the windows installation disc in the drive, restart the computer and go into the bios (hit either delete or f2 AS SOON AS the computer is booting up) and look for the option to change the primary boot device. then set that to boot from the optical (cd/dvd) drive instead of the hard drive, exit AND SAVE when youve done this, then just follow the on screen instructions. when you get to the installation screen look for the format hard drive option (may just be format depending on the os), and format your computers primary hard drive. once thats done just install the os to that and your good to go.

I don't have the disk anymore, though...my mom threw it out.

 

[Akai Shizuku]

First off, go to another computer and GET THOSE DRIVERS, do that before your reformat.

I'd suggest not taking the irreplaceable, if it's a word file, try to retype, if it's a picture file, go upload it online to tinypic.com They MAY be infected, and frankly you don't want that on the new computer.

Secondly, some virus' plug them selves onto USB drives.

Frankly just nuke it, and move on. From the sounds of it there's no going back.


____________

Side note, can someone reccomend me a good firewall/antivirus something? Just something to PREVENT them coming in.

Thanks.

I'm not quite sure what you mean by "get those drivers". Could you please explain to me? ^_^"

Probably means the drivers you got on cd when you bought the computer (video card driver/motherboard drivers/whatever special stuff's in your computer drivers)

You can all get them (the latest version too) from the web though, if you can at least get your internet connection up and running (probably on the motherboard drivers, if your LAN card is integrated)

My mom threw them out. Where exactly can I go on the web to get them?

My ISP is Rogers, if that's important.

It's not.You'll get these drivers from your motherboard manufacturer, not your ISP,they are physical devices drivers.

So, do I need to call Dell or Microsoft?

 

[Mekado]

First off, go to another computer and GET THOSE DRIVERS, do that before your reformat.

I'd suggest not taking the irreplaceable, if it's a word file, try to retype, if it's a picture file, go upload it online to tinypic.com They MAY be infected, and frankly you don't want that on the new computer.

Secondly, some virus' plug them selves onto USB drives.

Frankly just nuke it, and move on. From the sounds of it there's no going back.


____________

Side note, can someone reccomend me a good firewall/antivirus something? Just something to PREVENT them coming in.

Thanks.

I'm not quite sure what you mean by "get those drivers". Could you please explain to me? ^_^"

Probably means the drivers you got on cd when you bought the computer (video card driver/motherboard drivers/whatever special stuff's in your computer drivers)

You can all get them (the latest version too) from the web though, if you can at least get your internet connection up and running (probably on the motherboard drivers, if your LAN card is integrated)

My mom threw them out. Where exactly can I go on the web to get them?

My ISP is Rogers, if that's important.

It's not.You'll get these drivers from your motherboard manufacturer, not your ISP,they are physical devices drivers.

So, do I need to call Dell or Microsoft?

If you have a Dell computer, you'll find the motherboard drivers on the Dell website;
http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/index.aspx?c=ca&cs=cadhs1&l=en&s=dhs&~ck=anavml
then either type in your computer's model, or your dell tag number, and voila

 

[johnman]

We get quite a few of these of these things in at work. We run a combination of Spybot Search and Destroy and Malwarebytes, from a USB drive if we cant get them to install. Normally works very well.

1. Not to download pirate games
2. Think a bit more before double clicking a .exe file from a torrent

Thast unfair, as I siad we get these all the time on computers that are only used for office work and webrowsing. There is no .exe to run, they install themselves as pose as secruity software.

 

[Akai Shizuku]

First off, go to another computer and GET THOSE DRIVERS, do that before your reformat.

I'd suggest not taking the irreplaceable, if it's a word file, try to retype, if it's a picture file, go upload it online to tinypic.com They MAY be infected, and frankly you don't want that on the new computer.

Secondly, some virus' plug them selves onto USB drives.

Frankly just nuke it, and move on. From the sounds of it there's no going back.


____________

Side note, can someone reccomend me a good firewall/antivirus something? Just something to PREVENT them coming in.

Thanks.

I'm not quite sure what you mean by "get those drivers". Could you please explain to me? ^_^"

Probably means the drivers you got on cd when you bought the computer (video card driver/motherboard drivers/whatever special stuff's in your computer drivers)

You can all get them (the latest version too) from the web though, if you can at least get your internet connection up and running (probably on the motherboard drivers, if your LAN card is integrated)

My mom threw them out. Where exactly can I go on the web to get them?

My ISP is Rogers, if that's important.

It's not.You'll get these drivers from your motherboard manufacturer, not your ISP,they are physical devices drivers.

So, do I need to call Dell or Microsoft?

If you have a Dell computer, you'll find the motherboard drivers on the Dell website;
http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/index.aspx?c=ca&cs=cadhs1&l=en&s=dhs&~ck=anavml
then either type in your computer's model, or your dell tag number, and voila

Awesome, thanks a lot.

 

[chronobreak]

first off, if your anti virus is norton or macafee:

GET THE FUCK RID OF IT!!!!!!

Not to change the subject, but why is Norton no good? I've been using it, and I haven't gotten anything, though I also use Ad-Aware for malware scans. Norton has picked up things for me before, it isn't like I paid for nothing.

 

[Nepeccel]

Download a new virus scanner like Malawarebytes, find it and destroy the virus.
Also, go onto paint, right click and go properties and change where that shortcut takes you from porn to the programme of paint.

Go ctrl, ald, delete and task manager and see if there are any processes going on which you don't like the look of and stop them, or find out where they are coming from and delete the file. Doing both of these should get you clean.

 

[Mekado]

first off, if your anti virus is norton or macafee:

GET THE FUCK RID OF IT!!!!!!

Not to change the subject, but why is Norton no good? I've been using it, and I haven't gotten anything, though I also use Ad-Aware for malware scans. Norton has picked up things for me before, it isn't like I paid for nothing.

It's not the detection part that's subpar (although it's nothing special either) it's that Norton (and McAfee) is a huge ressource hog, it dosen't show that much on a brand spanking new computer but it takes way way more juice than other antiviruses (for the exact same end result).

It also costs 60$ for something a free antivirus can do just as well.

 

[Alienmen1]

Most of the time the webiste of the creator of the programs or computer-like items contain the said Drivers

Otherwise i could give you this website with instruction to help you out

Also I strongly recommand that you stay away from DS game

Try GBA game, I never had a virus before if i recall correctly

http://www.pcidatabase.com/

here are the instruction

When you have a obselete Driver in your Device manager you can find the driver (most of the time) like this

Do a right Click on the driver
Chose Property
Chose the tablet Details
You should see something like this


PCI\VEN_1283&DEV_8211&SUBSYS_81381043&REV_11\4&CF81C54&0&18F0

The most important part of this IS
VEN_1283 and DEV_8211

VEN = Vendor
DEV= Device

On the website write the number that you see in your Details Tablet (could be different from you since im french and so is my computer)

When yuo make the research you should see something like this

Vendor Search Results

Returning 1 match for: "1283"
Sorted by: Vendor ID
Vendor Id Vendor Name
0x1283 Waldo

IF not, try with the Device Number but the Vedor number is always more precise

Good luck with your computer!

 

[dietpeachsnapple]

So far you have received some pretty sound advice.

I would recommend, however, unplugging your computer from the internet and trying to run those programs. Sometimes viruses are dependent on outside instruction to be operative. If nothing else, unplug yourself when you are not using the computer so the virus cannot send any of your information elsewhere.

 

[Crabturtleking]

Do you have any idea how you got the virus?

Out of curiosity.

Let's just say I don't pay for half of my DS games.

If you use firefox, I'd suggest getting the Web of Trust add-on, since that helps you avoid malicious sites. And as the others said, your best bet would be to just format your hard drive, since you said you have everything saved

 

[chronobreak]

It's not the detection part that's subpar (although it's nothing special either) it's that Norton (and McAfee) is a huge ressource hog, it dosen't show that much on a brand spanking new computer but it takes way way more juice than other antiviruses (for the exact same end result).

It also costs 60$ for something a free antivirus can do just as well.

I guess you're right. I've got a Phenom quad-core with 3GB DDR2 dual-channel memory, 500gb Hard Drive, I don't know if that's considered good in the realm of computers but it hasn't given me any trouble, though IE does run a little slower during a scan. I'd like to think the $60 is good in case you need support, but I haven't had to use it yet, so maybe I am paying for nothing.

 

[blankedboy]

I wiped my computer upon virus appearance. All my good games were too big to back up, but now I have TF2 and RECOIL

 

[Mekado]

It's not the detection part that's subpar (although it's nothing special either) it's that Norton (and McAfee) is a huge ressource hog, it dosen't show that much on a brand spanking new computer but it takes way way more juice than other antiviruses (for the exact same end result).

It also costs 60$ for something a free antivirus can do just as well.

I guess you're right. I've got a Phenom quad-core with 3GB DDR2 dual-channel memory, 500gb Hard Drive, I don't know if that's considered good in the realm of computers but it hasn't given me any trouble, though IE does run a little slower during a scan. I'd like to think the $60 is good in case you need support, but I haven't had to use it yet, so maybe I am paying for nothing.

You do know that 60$ is only good for a year right ? antiviruses are subscription-based, you'll have to repay every year to keep your AV updated

 

[GreyWolf257]

If you can, download Spybot: Search and Destroy. It is great at destroying viruses and spyware. If you have McCafee, just delete it. It sucks WAY too much. You might also want to invest in Kapersky Anti-Virus.

If you can't, you might just want to wait until you can contact your uncle's friend. Wiping your hard-drive and re-installing is a *****, especially if you have lost one of the disks.