Oh no! My computer is so much slow!

[Vizsual]

I just got 2 viruses 2day
First is tftp.exe
and second is Buffer Overflow in Isass.exe
Do you?

[Not-Garr]

I have you beat! I'm on 56k or slower, and it takes 2-3 seconds for instant messages to come in. So hah! WebTV sux0rz worse than your viruses.

Dunno why that's something to be proud of though.

[boomiester]

I havn't had a virus in over 2 months, I only get the Trojan viruses though. I'm so irresponsible...

[PinkFloydYoshi]

I've not had a virus in years, and the last one I had was the EICAR test string. Harmless. Only because it was designed to test how anti-virus packages reacted when a virus was found.

The one before that gave the impression it wiped my hard drive, but it replaced the start bit of the hard drive with a 0 and made it look as though it had been wiped. That was nasty. That was back in 1999, when I was using IBM Anti-Virus for DOS.

[Teo]

3 seconds for instant messaging... well my comp isn't slow, so HA!! I just hope I don't get a keylogger.

[Buffy]

thats nothing try all your favorites being wiped out! good thing my mom can get it back but dang its annoying!

[Soul]

I've never let any viruses infect any of the computers I've owned, even since my first one in 1998 ;D

[yro Pedward]

Consider you all defeated! I've never caught any viruses in my whole life. Well, for the IMing, it appears by 2 secs. And yes, I have 56k modem, but I'm using Fast access dsl. Thank you Bellsouth! Mwahahahahaha!

[Vizsual]

Now when i connect to the internet:
1. I can't use file>open or file>save or the program will crash
2. I can't open visual basic 6.0
3. slow
4. When i connect to net some popups appear says "The toolbar installed sucessfiully" and the toolbar has been automatically installed.
5. I can't run any file from Program or that Program will crash! I've to open any file from Windows Explorer
6. I can't press Ctrl+Alt+Del
Oh! No!

[Midnight]

Edward said:

Consider you all defeated! I've never caught any viruses in my whole life. Well, for the IMing, it appears by 2 secs. And yes, I have 56k modem, but I'm using Fast access dsl. Thank you Bellsouth! Mwahahahahaha!

Say WHAT?!How the heck is that possible?*kicks computer*
I get the Trojan virus like,once a year XD.

[yro Pedward]

For Mechakoopa:

You'll probably got some problems with your computer. Perhaps spywares is the cause of program to crash. You might be infected by spyware.

For Midnight:

It's because I've gotten the windows update to protect my computer, and other utilities I downloaded. Common sense to it. Well, but there is something that happened to me. Not a virus, but caught spywares twice last year. Somebody was putting pron on my pc, and it does not look really nice at all. Lagged my pc entirely and I had to reboot my comp all over from the begining, with my restore cds. I got back the stuff that I lost. Midnight, hug me!

[Vizsual]

I tried to update my virus scan!
but it says it's already the lastest.
and virusscan cant find thai virus

[Midnight]

Edward said:

For Mechakoopa:

You'll probably got some problems with your computer. Perhaps spywares is the cause of program to crash. You might be infected by spyware.

For Midnight:

It's because I've gotten the windows update to protect my computer, and other utilities I downloaded. Common sense to it. Well, but there is something that happened to me. Not a virus, but caught spywares twice last year. Somebody was putting pron on my pc, and it does not look really nice at all. Lagged my pc entirely and I had to reboot my comp all over from the begining, with my restore cds. I got back the stuff that I lost. Midnight, hug me!

Oh...I've gotten Spyware before.And even when I'm not the reason it's there,I always get blamed for it.*hugs*

[PinkFloydYoshi]

!M said:

2. I can't open visual basic 6.0

You use VB6? Wow. I thought I was the lone VB Programmer.

However, to destroy your problems,

Goto www.lavasoft.de and download and install AdAware 6 SE, and perform a full scan.

After using that, and deleting what it detects, goto www.microsoft.com/athome/security/spyware/software/default.mspx and download Microsoft AntiSpyware, and perform a full scan with that.

The reason I suggested you use both is because one program might detect a malicious string when another won't.

Just a small point though. Never, ever, ever install Kazaa. Kazaa includes quite a lot of spyware/adware and upon installing kazaa, you install all these too, and included in that, is something called 'GAIN'. This isn't easy to uninstall, and doesn't uninstall when you uninstall Kazaa. Despite what it says in the install program, you cannot uninstall any spyware/adware by simply uninstalling Kazaa. Microsoft Antispyware will detect kazaa and all of it's components as a high risk threat. It also detects GAIN, but even after removing it, some little things still remain.

I had to repair a friends computer after he had kazaa on it, and Trend Micro Housecall clocked 82 viruses.

Nyes. 'twas a pain. By following my advice, your pc will be back to normal. Well, as for the viruses, www.trendmicro.com, click Personal, Click Housecall, click start housecall at the bottom once it's detected wether you have the components to run it. Once Housecall starts, and it's updated it's pattern files, tick the drives you want to scan (C: Local Drive) and click 'Start Scan'.

Wait. Patiently. Once it's done, it'll give you the chance to remove the viruses. Do so.

Fixed.

If housecall doesn't start however, or IE/FireFox crashes as you're clicking on 'Start housecall', the virus is protecting itself, and the best way of doing it then is to take it to have it repaired. I could tell you about going into safemode and doing it, but thats not wise if you're unsure of what you're doing. The reason why normal PC users shouldn't use the 'Administrator' account for their normal day-to-day activities.

Edit: Ended a quote incorrectly. My bad...

[yro Pedward]

Nice suggestions PFY, surely it can help him, and many other people as well. *Pets PFY.* Hahaha XD. And you Midnight! *Kisses her nose friendly.* LEVEL UP ! !

[Midnight]

Edward said:

Nice suggestions PFY, surely it can help him, and many other people as well. *Pets PFY.* Hahaha XD. And you Midnight! *Kisses her nose friendly.* LEVEL UP ! !

Meep... ;D

[Soul]

You use VB6? Wow. I thought I was the lone VB Programmer

I think s/he meant to say that s/he cannot open programs written in VB6. The VB runtime libraries may be missing or corrupt.

When i connect to net some popups appear says "The toolbar installed sucessfiully" and the toolbar has been automatically installed.

Your computer is infested with spyware. Use this.
Usually when a computer is seriously infested with spyware, it is a far better choice to reformat everything and re-install windows all over again. And then taking preventive measures. But if you don't have that option then using anti-virus/anti-spyware programs will certainly help somewhat.

And btw I've never allowed any spyware into any of my PC's either ;D

The reason I suggested you use both is because one program might detect a malicious string when another won't.

And also because some spyware programs will fight back against specific anti-spyware software.

The reason why normal PC users shouldn't use the 'Administrator' account for their normal day-to-day activities.

Indeed, the world would be very different if people followed that.