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argh....I hate Viruses...

A2597A2597 Fanboy
in Zocalo v2.0
Got something on my system...can't find it via virus scan. Terminates processes and network capabilities, specifically targeting file transfers. :(

Making backing up for a format very difficult.

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  • Random ChaosRandom Chaos Actually Carefully-selected Order in disguise
    Just install the OS again in a different directory off the CD...you can boot, move files, etc completely independent of the infected OS. Both will still be on the system, and a fresh OS might let the virus scanner find the virus...
  • MessiahMessiah Failed Experiment
    Re: argh....I hate Viruses...

    [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by A2597 [/i]
    [B]Got something on my system...can't find it via virus scan. Terminates processes and network capabilities, specifically targeting file transfers. :(

    Making backing up for a format very difficult. [/B][/QUOTE]

    Is it Windows?



    :p
  • A2597A2597 Fanboy
    yes, because I like my games. :D
  • KonradKonrad Ranger
    Safe to assume you tried the V-Scan in "Safe Mode?"

    What software are you using?
  • A2597A2597 Fanboy
    AVG and AntiVir found nothing in safe mode, no worries, got everything backed up. Formatted, and am now re-installing
  • E.TE.T Quote-o-matic
    One thing to check would have been rootkits

    [url]http://www.f-secure.com/v-descs/rootkit.shtml[/url]
  • SanfamSanfam I like clocks.
    See, when that happens, I start pulling out programs like HijackThis and ProcessExplorerXP to see what's running and what it's calling, and then kill that which I feel is suspicious. It can take a while, but it often saves the need to format.
  • AnlaShokAnlaShok Democrat From Hell
    I recently had to do some deep digging in my daughter's system. Silly child managed to find the IE icon and launched that and visited some sites that got her badly.

    Bastards who set up sites geared toward kids and put spyware installers on them should be shot through the lungs.
  • A2597A2597 Fanboy
    well, it's been 12-14 months since I last formatted anyway, was overdue.
  • Random ChaosRandom Chaos Actually Carefully-selected Order in disguise
    12-14 months...what's wrong with you?

    I've been 5 years since a format!
  • SanfamSanfam I like clocks.
    Were it not for my primary HDs biting the dust...twice...I would have been without a format for almost 8 years :D But technically, those installs are still there and could, in theory, work.

    Of course, my current boxen was made three years ago, and is absolutely perfect with exception to the fact that it seems to be refusing to open photoshop.
  • A2597A2597 Fanboy
    I used to format 2-6 times a year...kept things running nicely.
  • Random ChaosRandom Chaos Actually Carefully-selected Order in disguise
    My system is 100% stable. I can keep it going usually about 1-2 weeks between reboot, and for Windows, that's amazing. It's down from 3-4 weeks when it was a fresh install, but that install was in early 2002 (upgrade from ME to 2k...no format). My parents system, a ghost image of mine from about 3 years ago, had a single crash due to a corrupted registry. Took about a day to get it back up and running, but it's been 100% stable except for that.

    Unless you've got a virus that kills your FAT, there's never a reason to format. A good virus checker will kill any remnants of the virus, and reinstalling windows, without reformating, is always an option of last resort.

    My parent's system's hard drive has parts of it that go back at least to 1991, perhaps earlier. Some of them originally ran MS Dos 5.0. They just keep getting moved from HD to HD :D

    My laptop is also super stable - about 2 months of running XP on it and 1 reboot (other than initial installs), and that 1 reboot was the result of Windows Update, not any bug or such. Current uptime is just over 4 weeks, and it's been out of hibernation/standby about 90% of the time.

    --RC
  • CurZCurZ Resident Hippy
    [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Random Chaos [/i]
    [B]My system is 100% stable.[/B][/QUOTE]

    So you're not using windows? :D
  • Random ChaosRandom Chaos Actually Carefully-selected Order in disguise
    [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by CurZ [/i]
    [B]So you're not using windows? :D [/B][/QUOTE]

    I am :)

    It's 100% stable for what you expect of windows...which is 1-2 weeks between reboots :D

    Linux would be 1-2 years equivilent :D
  • BigglesBiggles <font color=#AAFFAA>The Man Without a Face</font>
    My windows system goes for 1 or more weeks between reboots. I've formatted I think once since I bought and installed winxp a few years ago, and that was earlier this year after I installed SP2.
  • A2597A2597 Fanboy
    I usually have an uptime of 1-2 weeks as well...

    of course, those reboots are generally due to installing a program that probably doesn't REALLY need a reboot, but you never know....

    other times...yea, Ram gets fragged, and to lazy to run a ram cleaner...
  • E.TE.T Quote-o-matic
    [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by AnlaShok [/i]
    [B]Bastards who set up sites geared toward kids and put spyware installers on them should be shot through the lungs.[/B][/QUOTE]Wrong...
    1: It's unproductive, using them as labrats for studying Ebola virus would benefit mankind.

    2: Too fast, I would prefer shooting first to hands, foots and like that.


    [quote]Silly child managed to find the IE icon[/quote]You have to remove it from all places.
    And its access to net should be always blocked by using firewall.
  • BigglesBiggles <font color=#AAFFAA>The Man Without a Face</font>
    I just rename iexplore.exe.
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