+warwagon Subscriber² Share Posted July 16, 2008 That's not a computer, it's a Mac. Stick to what he's talking about. Technically a Mac is a computer :whistle: Link to post Share on other sites
Tech God Share Posted July 16, 2008 I honestly don't even bother with stuff like that, when you got viruses making random things open, slowing you down, turning off your computer and basically wreaking havoc... running tons of virus scans / malware scans / waiting for user replies on forums is just too much god damn work when it can all be fixed in a 20 minute reformat. Then you know you are 100% virus free, and your computer will be basically as fast as it was when you got it. Your computer will thank you in the end, nothing like starting on a fresh page. Link to post Share on other sites
Joel Share Posted July 16, 2008 Technically a Mac is a computer :whistle: I know, but if your entire marketing campaign is based on making sure your product is in no way affiliated with a Personal Computer, it's hard to turn around now and say it's a computer. ;) Link to post Share on other sites
+warwagon Subscriber² Share Posted July 16, 2008 I know, but if your entire marketing campaign is based on making sure your product is in no way affiliated with a Personal Computer, it's hard to turn around now and say it's a computer. ;) Its a computer, just not a personal one. :laugh: Link to post Share on other sites
zhangm Supervisor Share Posted July 16, 2008 I spent three hours today getting rid of a rootkit, a copy of Antivirus 2008 Pro, and fourteen trojans on a borked WinXP machine. It was actually a lot of fun taking it from a regedit-disabled, file browsing-disabled, task manager disabled, dns-hijacked state into a working computer, with Symantec Corp, Automatic Updates, and Spybot S&D. Just saying that it can look bad, but nothing's impossible. Link to post Share on other sites
naquis Share Posted July 16, 2008 I don't know if you have got the problem taken care of or not but if you have then I hope the following will help. Do this on a working PC. Download Dial-a-fix http://wiki.lunarsoft.net/wiki/Dial-a-fix Download Smitfraudfix http://siri.geekstogo.com/SmitfraudFix.php Download Sdfix http://downloads.andymanchesta.com/RemovalTools/SDFix.exe Download Combofix http://download.bleepingcomputer.com/sUBs/ComboFix.exe Download the following from Malwarebytes.org http://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam.php http://www.malwarebytes.org/rogueremover.php Copy the files you downloaded to a usb flash drive or CD On the infected PC, copy these files to the hard drive. I usually make a folder called fixme, C:\fixme, and run the file from there. Start with Dial-a-fix. When it starts up it will list any policies in place that keep you from using the task manager or regedit. Remove whatever it finds. Next run smitfraudfix. If it doesn't open, rename it from smitfraudfix.exe, to smitfraudfix.com. Now try it again. You make have to do that for sdfix and combofix as well. Next run sdfix and then combofix Once those files have run and fixed the items they found, in normal mode you should be able to install and run Malwarebytes Anti-Malware and Rogue Remover After that you should be running normally again. Link to post Share on other sites
redvamp128 Share Posted July 16, 2008 One of the best tools I have found is Spybot Search and Destroy- Especially when you enable the Tea-Timer. That and add their host file to your host file. That and Firefox For me for browsing the web. Link to post Share on other sites
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