shiba geezer
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I believe I have a problem similar to Techflame23 2/3/08 topic 98302 (sorry i can't post links yet)
I am about to run through the 15 step procedure but want to make sure I have suffient antivirus/firewall running before getting started.
I have norton antivirus but had not been online to run a live update for a month before I got the virus yeasterday. I also have uniblue speed up my pc which from what i understand removes spyware when you run the scan. Also from uniblue i have the registry booster.
I knew I had the virus when norton windows poped up alerting me that intrusion attempts were blocked followed by what looks like windows security alerts warnings that the system was corrupted and to start scanning for malware (2 different pop up windows saying different but similarly dire things) coming up every couple minutes. A third more colorful/graphic "microsoft" window pops up every 5 minutes saying i have no virus protection. When i click the link it scans (too quickly i think) then tries to connect to via internet explorer to register the product. I'm fairly confident these are false protection programs especially since one is labled Vista and i'm still on XP os.
Will I be okay going through the 15 steps with just norton (sans live update) and uniblue running? Should i try to do a live update of norton first?
I forgot to mention the other symptoms of this virus. The one that has me scared to connect to the net is: it kept opening explorer browsers and tabs even after i disabled the connection. After disconnection from the internet yesterday I ran a norton full system scan, uniblue sumpc and registry scans. Norton found 0 risks, uniblue scans removed hundreds of privacy risks and registry defect files respectively. The last symptom of this virus is persitent creation of 2 obscene desktop shortcut icons. One is "Tits and ***" the other is "nude women" and dragging the mouse over them they list as .url's.
Let me know what i should do (if anything) before starting the 15 steps. I'm just afraid of the multiple browser symptom (if it still persists) making it impossible to do the nesc. downloads.
Thank you for your time.
truly
geezer
I am about to run through the 15 step procedure but want to make sure I have suffient antivirus/firewall running before getting started.
I have norton antivirus but had not been online to run a live update for a month before I got the virus yeasterday. I also have uniblue speed up my pc which from what i understand removes spyware when you run the scan. Also from uniblue i have the registry booster.
I knew I had the virus when norton windows poped up alerting me that intrusion attempts were blocked followed by what looks like windows security alerts warnings that the system was corrupted and to start scanning for malware (2 different pop up windows saying different but similarly dire things) coming up every couple minutes. A third more colorful/graphic "microsoft" window pops up every 5 minutes saying i have no virus protection. When i click the link it scans (too quickly i think) then tries to connect to via internet explorer to register the product. I'm fairly confident these are false protection programs especially since one is labled Vista and i'm still on XP os.
Will I be okay going through the 15 steps with just norton (sans live update) and uniblue running? Should i try to do a live update of norton first?
I forgot to mention the other symptoms of this virus. The one that has me scared to connect to the net is: it kept opening explorer browsers and tabs even after i disabled the connection. After disconnection from the internet yesterday I ran a norton full system scan, uniblue sumpc and registry scans. Norton found 0 risks, uniblue scans removed hundreds of privacy risks and registry defect files respectively. The last symptom of this virus is persitent creation of 2 obscene desktop shortcut icons. One is "Tits and ***" the other is "nude women" and dragging the mouse over them they list as .url's.
Let me know what i should do (if anything) before starting the 15 steps. I'm just afraid of the multiple browser symptom (if it still persists) making it impossible to do the nesc. downloads.
Thank you for your time.
truly
geezer