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Phantom0914 on 6/10/2008 at 04:09

How do I delete this message from coming up when I open my C:\ drive?, I deleted most of the virus but this still happens

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37637598 on 6/10/2008 at 05:18

haha whoever made it did a pretty bad job!

"Click OK to download the antispyware. (Recommended)

Yes
No"

nickie on 6/10/2008 at 06:26

What virus was it and how did you get rid of it?

TBE on 6/10/2008 at 17:47

Sounds to me that you were attacked by a spyware program more than a virus.

Is your computer acting funny in other ways?
Is your home page still the same when you logon to the internet?
Do you have an anti-virus program installed already? I recommend (http://www.avg.com/filedir/inst/avg_free_stf_en_8_173a1373.exe) AVG Free Anti-virus. It is totally free, don't try to pay for it if prompted. Just hit cancel if that's the only other choice than buying it. It will install the free version.

Download (http://www.spybotupdates.com/files/spybotsd160.exe) Spybot Search and Destroy. Install and run it. It should take about 30 minutes to scan on the average computer.

Report back and let us know what came up. I'd almost recommend you save your important documents, pictures, and music, and just reformat the entire computer. If it's so embedded that things pop up when you browse your harddrive, then it's in your registry and in the operating system. Very hard to remove, actually.

Phantom0914 on 6/10/2008 at 18:54

Spybot and Ad-Aware 2008 said i had viruses like smitfraud, zlob downloader, and Virtumande and I deleted them, also Ad-Watch said it changed like 100,000 registry files
Edit:And system restore does nothing

Omega on 6/10/2008 at 19:28

Download (http://download.bleepingcomputer.com/sUBs/ComboFix.exe) Combofix. Don't intervene with the program until it shows you the final log file in notepad.

Then download (http://www.besttechie.net/tools/mbam-setup.exe) Malware Bytes, install it (download any updates if it asks about them) and run a quick scan. When it finds stuff, just select all and remove selected.

(It sounds like a variant of XP Antivirus, has your desktop wallpaper changed at all?)

nickie on 6/10/2008 at 19:49

I'll leave you in Omega's good hands, but for anyone reading this and looking for similar answers, it's better to ask for help first. Just deleting stuff won't necessarily remove it and can sometimes make things worse. Particular tools that have been designed by expert malware fighters are often what's needed. And once you're clean make sure you have good protection. I have 5 completely different things protecting my pc.

theBlackman on 6/10/2008 at 23:17

Quote Posted by nickie

[...]And once you're clean make sure you have good protection. I have 5 completely different things protecting my pc.

Including two Dobermans and a shotgun! :ebil:

nickie on 7/10/2008 at 06:00

:laff: You're not far off there. Actually it's a baseball bat and a borrowed (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhodesian_Ridgeback) Rhodesian Ridgeback . The shotgun's kept elsewhere. :D

Sorry Phantom0914 for the slight derail.

Phantom0914 on 8/10/2008 at 19:08

Quote Posted by Omega

(It sounds like a variant of XP Antivirus, has your desktop wallpaper changed at all?)

Yes, it changed like twice and i had to change it back
I have like 4 anti-virus programs (Spybot, Ad-Aware2008, AVG, and Super Anti-Spyware)