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United States24770 Posts
People that do things for the sole purpose of making others suffer exist in surprising numbers!
Malware that serves some purpose such as using your computer to do something other than simply give other people malware makes sense to me at least even though it's still a pretty shitty thing to make/distribute.
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United States889 Posts
shit. i'm not out of the woods yet. it's launching ads now and spybot doesn't know what the fuck it's doing.
it's not the hostile part that's left just the annoying one.
"Hostile?"
"...Annoying..."
gold star if you get the reference
haha these people suck so much that my browser based popup blocker is shutting down the ads. losers.
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unplug your internet, check msconfig for anything to stop it from booting, go into safe mode and then try to remove it.
also try out sandboxie next time when you install something to keep issues from happening
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United States889 Posts
my problem isn't removing the remaining components it's finding out what i need to remove and finding where it's hiding. it won't let me run spybot and won't let me install malwarebytes and i need to know how it's doing that and what's letting it do that so i can kill it
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motbob
United States12546 Posts
make recovery disks and whenever this happens just reformat. It's probably quicker than trying to fix it, especially if it's newer malware.
EDIT: but as for your problem right now, you need to open up task manager ASAP when the computer starts up and manually kill the bad processes when they start up. That's how I got rid of malware that was keeping me from running anti-malware programs (or programs of any kind)
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United States889 Posts
clever developers have hidden this process...i can't identify anything malicious. i'm chasing registry values at the moment hoping that i hit the achilles' heel of whatever's launching the ads and preventing me from running antimalware programs.
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motbob
United States12546 Posts
well have you tried safe mode yet? if you can't install adwarebytes in safe mode then that means your system files have been modified... I think
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Gah... unfortunate. I'm sure I have some malware acting up on my computer but if it doesn't shut me down it doesn't bug me. If only these people were doing productive things... the world would be so much better.
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United States889 Posts
On January 18 2010 13:18 motbob wrote:
well have you tried safe mode yet? if you can't install adwarebytes in safe mode then that means your system files have been modified... I think
i don't like the sound of that at all.
would reinstalling my browsers get rid of the ads?
EDIT: apparently renaming malwarebytes 'monkey brains' fools the program blocking it from starting. idiots.
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I came to work today and my co worker left a virus/malware thing on the comp called internet security 2010. Which is a fake AV program that gives you shit loads of popups and ads and bubbles and shit telling you you have virus and when you try to run certain things it doesn't allow you and tells you instead via error messages that you have trojan/backdoor/worm/virus preventing you from doing it. (ctrl+alt+del mainly). They want you to buy their phony software for 50$ to get rid of the 'infections'. After running Hijackthis to remove the shit I knew for sure was bad to take the snail speed off the comp, I googled it and found a comprehensive removal guide on bleepingcomputer.com.
I spent all morning removing it though.
/rant
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Ugh I got that same one as you arrian. Except it didnt block any of the sites(i had one that did a while ago). I downloaded the free avast trial and it removed some stuff, scanned with the free kaspersky and symantec scanners and they couldn't find all the pieces. I found it easier to just reformat...stuck in the recovery CD and was up and running 45 min later.
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Time for you people to use Limited User Accounts and Software Restriction Policies.
And for those running 32-bit systems, check this out:
http://www.sandboxie.com/
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rename the install file for malware bytes to install it. when installed, go to the installation directory and change the main exe's name to something else. then run it. gl.
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99% of all infections are because people install garbage on their PCs and launch executables that are obviously malicious. I haven't had a firewall or an AV program since 2005 and I still use XP and for some reason never had a problem with malware or viruses.
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Germany2896 Posts
One malware my brother caught hid in the instance of explorer displaying the shell(the startmenu and taskbar). I think I killed explorer and deleted it.
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On January 18 2010 16:45 Sadistx wrote:
99% of all infections are because people install garbage on their PCs and launch executables that are obviously malicious. I haven't had a firewall or an AV program since 2005 and I still use XP and for some reason never had a problem with malware or viruses.
agree
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EPT
