Help! Virus!

[Metallifold]

I've gota virus that I can't remove. I know what file that casued it but it won't remove when I click on the remove button. INSTANT help request.

[jarrur]

I had one of those. I couldn't get rid off it. I tried two softwares and no go. So "Format C:" did it for me.

[Dusan]

Or when Its active after start windows, try it turn off with msconfig and then delete

[Sepu]

the only way are to delete it from the autostart with the commang msconfig (if you can find it there).
IF not, try to boot in safe mode and check if you can delete it yourself.

Chris

[dmegametal#1]

use Norton and send to quarintine and then delete it from there!!!

[sjmike]

try booting in safe mode, then doing a virus scan. That should at least quarantine the file and allow you to delete it. Or if you know exactly what type of virus it is, do a google search and i'm sure there are ways to remove it.

[Robertbeer]

I use Mcafee and ad aware to remove virus and trojans, also when scan the computers unplug the wire from internet before to scan the Pc, also check the msconfig as Sepu said.

Robert

[fey-metallica]

Find all files that come with the virus and write them down (list on mcafee or google). Start in safe mode and delete all files and restart.

ps: link

[Metallifold]

Thanks everyone.

I sat by the pc for approx 7-8 hours yesterday. Here's the full story:

I wanted to get ahold of a crack to a program called VocalRemover. What the program does is that it removes vocals from songs. I wanted to try and isolate the vocals from the Other New Song, then Mess with Auto-Tune and others goodies on it, and then put it back. Just to hear how it could sound on the album
Now that process should in my mind only take a couple of hours....

I went online a crack site, got several porn pop and ''Winner of thousand of dollars'' pop ups. When I tried to close their windows they would open instead of close and they downloaded programs and install on my harddrive. They were though easily located at first since they were in the same folder before they spread...

I tried to manually delete the files, but they wouldn't do that. I tried to rename em and everything but it just didn't work ( remember that my antivurs program has just gone out of date and I was about to get another one since I wasn't totally happy with Panda). I tried AVC, I tried Pc doctor ( which found the files but wouldn't delete the files as a freeware, I would had to order it and wait for it to ship, which would take time I didn't have). Nothing worked.

I then contacted my dad who I knew just had bought in several copies of Norton for his company, and he was about to come down with one a few hours from the call.

I closed all internet activites and disabled the network/internet connection. I should have done that earlier, because the virus did way more harm when I was logged on the Internet.

Sadly, the virus had spread and was somehow in the install/uninstall folders in Windows( which I later found out with a Pc doctor scan ). It infected the installation of Symantec Norton and I was unable to open it. But I was though able to delete the original virus files, after I had renamed them. Some were ongoing processes that I had to quit and delete very quick( which was a trick I got from Sepu, thanks brother ). So, with a non working Antivirus program I was on the haunt for the Trojans and Spyware programs that I know was on the pc after doing another Pc doctor scan. Here's where I found out they had infected the Install and Uninstall folder and that it was probably the reason to why I wasn't even able to remove and re-install Norton.

So Then, it was off to what I know as the last remaining thing that could help. I opened RegEdit via the command Reg+Edit in ''Run''. This is the systems register and it saves files/ related files to programs a LONG time after you've deleted the programs from your pc, and started deleted everything Symantec and Norton related ( one has to be VERY careful when deleting files in RegEdit because you may delete system files, one shall avoid the program as long as possible, but since I knew the virus had spread to the system, I had nothing to loose ). By the time all files Norton and Symantec related was gone, the virus had spread even more. After using RegEdit, I lurked around and it all seemed to be running perfectly so I rebooted the system after everything that had been done, so the pc would update and get a fresh start with everything that been updated. But the virus had infected the System so drastically that I didn't even manage to repair the system via a windows backup cd, since the virus was still present.

So, It's off to unplugging the Boot drive, put it as a slave on the other pc, save the most necessary files, and blow the entire drive. Then put it back in the pc, install Windows and Norton. So, I know what I have comming the upcomming couple of evenings.

I'm though off for the week, going to Stockholm with a few buddies and spending some Playstation 2 time with my little brothers, and of course, the daughter, while the wife is working. But I guess, nothing is perfect

Thanks to everyone that has tried to help me during this process. Sadly, there are morons that does everything they can to harm others and now I have to experience their work.

Cheers everyone

Johan

[damage jackal]

your situation is known to me, thus i build up a almost perfect (i think it is) block system for cookies, scripts, pop-ups and so on, in short nothing can be stored in my comp from internet w/o my authorization and all this w/o any prog just with IE