Recently my computer has become infected by this file that looks like old winzip icon, and basically what it does is replicate itself with a list of filenames, such as aol crack, yahoo hack, battlefield crack, and there are like thousands of possible names. Every single file is ~48kilobytes i think, ... basically they're all the same exact size. It infects every single media folder on the computer, it got into my /shared/ folder, my "my shared folder", "my music", and even a few more. Basically I just want to know if anyone else has ran across this? edit: i forgot to add, it disables ctrl+alt+del
First thing is unplug your computer from the Internet!!!!! Cause now it is trying to spread itself. Then go into safe mode, and run a scan. Try and get it cleaned before you plug the internet back.
yea, and if youre running Norton, get rid of it. Try Avast, Nod32, or AVG. anything is 100000000 times better than Norton...
you can scan at http://www.trendmicro.com which is housecall or http://security.symantec.com those are two online scanners i use
All of the above that is said. Avast- http://www.Avast.com -free registration for a serial by e-mail. quick. Avast will also do an At-boot scan, which scans infriged files before they boot up. nice features Nod32- free and paid versions, not much difference but the anoying popups saying buy it for the free vers.... AVG- by Grisoft- a good AV, free and paid. couldnt ever get the updates, but that was when i was a bit younger, might have just been stupid... ((uh... Stan? you want to keep off the internet, not be on it, as Hydrogen said))
disconnect yourself from the internet then Search for Crack in generall and delete everything. reconnect to the internet quickly and download avast then disconnect and run avast and clean everything then serch for crack again
Yes, when you download Avast, you already have the latest virus definitions, so scan away!! No need for updates..
lol, ok. you can run the scan right now, Avast doesn't take up much system resources. Limewire generally would take more...
Do you need a little help to figure out where you got this virus from? [/b][/quote] lol, i know, but i didn't run the program for the original virus, i do know what i'm doing.......... sort of
