1) Boot to safe mode with networking. See http://www.computerhope.com/issues/chsafe.htm for instructions.
2) Download Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware free edition from malwarebytes.org. If you are unable to browse to malwarebytes.org using Internet Explorer, try a different browser, or go to Tools > Internet Options > Connections tab. Click LAN Settings at the bottom and make sure that none of the boxes are checked.
3) When installing, leave the Update box checked at the end of installation.
4) Once MBAM has opened, go to the Update tab and double-check by pressing Update again. Make sure you see yesterday's or today's date. If you are unable to update, refer to http://jack.is/tech-support/tech-tips/mbam.php
5) Once you have properly updated MBAM, begin a Quick Scan. The full scan is unnecessarily lengthy and will not find additional malware, only insignificant items such as tracking cookies which can be taken care of later, if you care about it. CCleaner is nice for that.
6) Remove everything that MBAM finds.
7) Reboot to normal mode.
Go to http://gmer.net/
9) Press the "Download EXE" button (scroll below the large GMER image).
10) Once the GMER download is running, it will do an automatic, brief scan. Report here if you see anything in red, or anything referring to the "boot sector" or "suspicious modification". Please don't change anything in GMER unless you're sure of what you're doing as this tool can hose the OS.
If you download a lot of files and are unsure as to whether it's safe or not a good way is to cross check it (depending on its size) via multiple sources using http://www.virustotal.com/ or http://virscan.org/.
Other then that I think Jack hit the nail on the head.
If you download a lot of files and are unsure as to whether it's safe or not a good way is to cross check it (depending on its size) via multiple sources using http://www.virustotal.com/ or http://virscan.org/.
Other then that I think Jack hit the nail on the head.
I apprecaite both responses but I have a subsciption to Spy Sweeper (I didn't pay for it so I'm not complaining) Just sucks that viruses exist in the first place.
I can always tell when my computer is going to get a virus, it's like smelling rain.
Whenever I see my computer bogging down I immediately bring up process manager and see what's running. Sometimes shit can run under another .dll but I'll just run rkill.exe then process manager xp. When shit gets more fucked up, I'll use normal malware cleaner.
I find that most new viruses block the use of spybot search and destroy, which was always my favorite. Their database is way too big now (the definition files) and instead of a 10 minute search its like a half hour minimum. I keep most of my shit on a seperate harddrive, and reformatting and all that takes an hour and a half max to be back up and running.
I forgot about rkill. There's another program that cleans EVERYTHING, but i forgot what it is. I'll have to find it again. It was the only thing that fixed hijacked google links.
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1) Boot to safe mode with networking. See http://www.computerhope.com/issues/chsafe.htm for instructions.
2) Download Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware free edition from malwarebytes.org. If you are unable to browse to malwarebytes.org using Internet Explorer, try a different browser, or go to Tools > Internet Options > Connections tab. Click LAN Settings at the bottom and make sure that none of the boxes are checked.
3) When installing, leave the Update box checked at the end of installation.
4) Once MBAM has opened, go to the Update tab and double-check by pressing Update again. Make sure you see yesterday's or today's date. If you are unable to update, refer to http://jack.is/tech-support/tech-tips/mbam.php
5) Once you have properly updated MBAM, begin a Quick Scan. The full scan is unnecessarily lengthy and will not find additional malware, only insignificant items such as tracking cookies which can be taken care of later, if you care about it. CCleaner is nice for that.
6) Remove everything that MBAM finds.
7) Reboot to normal mode.
Go to http://gmer.net/
9) Press the "Download EXE" button (scroll below the large GMER image).
10) Once the GMER download is running, it will do an automatic, brief scan. Report here if you see anything in red, or anything referring to the "boot sector" or "suspicious modification". Please don't change anything in GMER unless you're sure of what you're doing as this tool can hose the OS.
Other then that I think Jack hit the nail on the head.
I apprecaite both responses but I have a subsciption to Spy Sweeper (I didn't pay for it so I'm not complaining) Just sucks that viruses exist in the first place.
Whenever I see my computer bogging down I immediately bring up process manager and see what's running. Sometimes shit can run under another .dll but I'll just run rkill.exe then process manager xp. When shit gets more fucked up, I'll use normal malware cleaner.
I find that most new viruses block the use of spybot search and destroy, which was always my favorite. Their database is way too big now (the definition files) and instead of a 10 minute search its like a half hour minimum. I keep most of my shit on a seperate harddrive, and reformatting and all that takes an hour and a half max to be back up and running.