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Steelflight-Rx
Profile Blog Joined July 2007
United States1389 Posts
July 18 2008 01:20 GMT
#1
So i downloaded this program. Anti-keylogger elite. Deletes keyloggers.. makes sense. I also downloaded another sech program, altho i can't recall the name. Anyways, I ran the thing, when i start up windows 3 things pop up, AIM, some update thing that I always ignore, and the elite keylogger. I cant interact with the task bar at all (open start menu, click any quicklaunch icons) or use any of the icons on my desktop, or even right click anywhere. The only thing that responds is the anti-keylogger, which gives me the option to purchase now or later, either way it just freezes after clicking.. Halp!

yubee wrote: you know? it's a great night you should all smile no matter what harddships, because grass grows and the sky is blue and it's a good life.
Steelflight-Rx
Profile Blog Joined July 2007
United States1389 Posts
July 18 2008 01:21 GMT
#2
PS im on a different comp right now
yubee wrote: you know? it's a great night you should all smile no matter what harddships, because grass grows and the sky is blue and it's a good life.
Zanno
Profile Blog Joined February 2007
United States1484 Posts
Last Edited: 2008-07-18 01:23:44
July 18 2008 01:22 GMT
#3
sounds like you downloaded one of countless virus scanners that are actually viruses

CLICK HEAR TO INLARGE* YOUR PEN|S

aaaaa
Steelflight-Rx
Profile Blog Joined July 2007
United States1389 Posts
July 18 2008 01:23 GMT
#4
u forgot the link
yubee wrote: you know? it's a great night you should all smile no matter what harddships, because grass grows and the sky is blue and it's a good life.
Eatme
Profile Blog Joined June 2003
Switzerland3919 Posts
Last Edited: 2008-07-18 01:35:46
July 18 2008 01:31 GMT
#5
Well I guess you can always remove the HD (that you have the OS on) and set it as slave on another computer that has a bunch of antivirus anti malware ect progs on it and scan it from that computer. It might fuck up your windows but it's pretty bad as it is and it might work without having to reinstall the OS.
I have the best fucking lawyers in the country including the man they call the Malmis.
BottleAbuser
Profile Blog Joined December 2007
Korea (South)1888 Posts
July 18 2008 01:31 GMT
#6
Boot from something else. Make a "boot disk" with the computer you're on right now, put it on a floppy, thumb drive, cd, dvd, external hard drive, chinese teenagers. Stick it on your affected computer, open up your bios, configure your boot order to go first to whatever your boot drive is on before your hard drive, and voila, you're at a command line prompt.

Depending on how sophisticated this stuff is, you might be able to delete it by "deltree c:/program files/imanoob" or wherever it is you installed this program. Or run an (updated) antivirus utility, also automagically and conveniently found on your boot disk (okay, you'll have to put it on there too).

Get some antivirus software so you don't pwn yourself so easily next time. I'm sure there's plenty of good ones out there, but if you're too lazy to find what you want, avira works okay for me.
Compilers are like boyfriends, you miss a period and they go crazy on you.
Steelflight-Rx
Profile Blog Joined July 2007
United States1389 Posts
July 18 2008 01:33 GMT
#7
i already got norton antivirus.. and wtf are u talking about.. i might as well bring this shit in lol..
yubee wrote: you know? it's a great night you should all smile no matter what harddships, because grass grows and the sky is blue and it's a good life.
GeneralStan
Profile Blog Joined August 2007
United States4789 Posts
July 18 2008 01:38 GMT
#8
Deleting the entry in program files isn't likely to help at all. More than likely, the virus has installed itself in the SYSTEM32 directory, and it will be named similar to any of a dozen legitimate and common executables.

If you have data worth saving, then I can't help you

Otherwise, you're going to spend a tremendous amount of effort trying to fight it, compared to an easy and simple hard drive wipe
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Steelflight-Rx
Profile Blog Joined July 2007
United States1389 Posts
July 18 2008 01:38 GMT
#9
update: i can get the task manager opened, maybe if i can figure out what process is the virus.. is that how virus's work?
yubee wrote: you know? it's a great night you should all smile no matter what harddships, because grass grows and the sky is blue and it's a good life.
FragKrag
Profile Blog Joined September 2007
United States11567 Posts
July 18 2008 01:42 GMT
#10
It's going to manifest itself in a process you probably don't want to/can't end.
*TL CJ Entusman #40* "like scissors does anything to paper except MAKE IT MORE NUMEROUS" -paper
BottleAbuser
Profile Blog Joined December 2007
Korea (South)1888 Posts
Last Edited: 2008-07-18 01:47:03
July 18 2008 01:44 GMT
#11
Norton is notorious for being ineffective (even after rootkitting your system!), but then again every big program out there's got horror stories.

I'll reword my previous post:

I'm assuming you're using some version of Windows, probably XP or Vista.

This program loads and locks your computer before you can do anything with it, but after Windows loads. This indicates that Windows launches up this program. To get rid of it, you'll want to access your computer without using Windows.

To access your computer without Windows, you'll need some sort of an operating system that's not Windows. A very lightweight OS that is bundled with Windows (MS-DOS) can be placed on a CD or USB thumb drive (or pretty much anything else these days).

Now, your computer will probably ignore that USB drive or CD and proceed to load Windows. To make it boot to DOS, access your BIOS right after you turn on the power to your computer by pressing DEL or F10 or whatever it is that it says on the screen ("Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to enter Setup").

In the BIOS, you will find a setting that says something like "Boot Priority". Change this so it says "USB" or "CD" before "Seagage MX893425798" or whatever your hard drive is called.

Now, restart your computer and instead of Windows, you'll see this big blank black screen with

C:/>_

Congrats, you can do stuff with your comp now.

Get a command line virus scan (came up with this from 10 seconds on Google) and run it. Hopefully that will catch this virus.

You could also just wipe the drive as a previous poster suggested. If you have data you want to save, go ahead and back it up at this point.

You might be better off sending in the computer to a repair shop. And it might be cheaper than that to buy this "keylogger elite" program, which will probably unlock your computer. Which is why this stuff keeps getting written in the first place.
Compilers are like boyfriends, you miss a period and they go crazy on you.
Steelflight-Rx
Profile Blog Joined July 2007
United States1389 Posts
July 18 2008 01:46 GMT
#12
btw i made a graphic depiction of the virus while i was waiting
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yubee wrote: you know? it's a great night you should all smile no matter what harddships, because grass grows and the sky is blue and it's a good life.
Steelflight-Rx
Profile Blog Joined July 2007
United States1389 Posts
July 18 2008 01:50 GMT
#13
oh and when i try to "purchase" the elite antikeylogger it freezes, so fuck those guys.
yubee wrote: you know? it's a great night you should all smile no matter what harddships, because grass grows and the sky is blue and it's a good life.
Steelflight-Rx
Profile Blog Joined July 2007
United States1389 Posts
July 18 2008 01:55 GMT
#14
oh and i just rememberd something else, it kept making that "boop" error sound b4 i restarted it.. like the boop before an error dialogue box comes up, only no boxes were coming up. thats why i restarted it.. i guess it was just a tarp to get me to restart and lock up windows!
yubee wrote: you know? it's a great night you should all smile no matter what harddships, because grass grows and the sky is blue and it's a good life.
G5
Profile Blog Joined August 2005
United States2922 Posts
July 18 2008 02:06 GMT
#15
that sux

maybe just reformat to fix the problem
Steelflight-Rx
Profile Blog Joined July 2007
United States1389 Posts
July 18 2008 02:12 GMT
#16
i dont wanna lose all my shit =(
i got like 10 gigs of planet earth on there took me like a week to get
yubee wrote: you know? it's a great night you should all smile no matter what harddships, because grass grows and the sky is blue and it's a good life.
BottleAbuser
Profile Blog Joined December 2007
Korea (South)1888 Posts
July 18 2008 02:23 GMT
#17
If it was me, I'd do the following, which will take between 2-4 hours depending on a few things:

Take out the hard drive. Put it in the working computer. Screwdriver required. Updated and running antivirus on the working computer recommended.

Copy data over to working comp. Wipe the drive.

Put blank drive back into original computer. Stick in Windows CD and wait an hour while the computer decides how to turn a 700MB disk into 2 gigabytes on your hard drive.

Spend another few hours reinstalling hardware drivers and games programs.
Compilers are like boyfriends, you miss a period and they go crazy on you.
ScarFace
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
United States1175 Posts
July 18 2008 02:52 GMT
#18
Reinstalling windows always works for me, good luck m8
Can you dig it?
prOxi.swAMi
Profile Blog Joined November 2004
Australia3091 Posts
July 18 2008 03:01 GMT
#19
Surely you can boot from another drive and back up all your planet earth...?

Anyway... next time just use avira (www.freeav.com)
Oh no
arb
Profile Blog Joined April 2008
Noobville17922 Posts
July 18 2008 03:09 GMT
#20
Reformat,Just redownload that shit again or lose your computer..But its under your (T)Control dude.
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