Virus Help

Fri Mar 30, 2007 9:57 pm

Hey. My former 'friend' just sent me a file that, when opened, caused my system to freeze right up. I had to restart the computer, and when I did I deleted the sent file and ran a virus search using Spy Sweeper, which came back clean. Then, just there when I logged onto MSN Messenger 7.5, it started acting all glitchy again and when I tried to closde it normally it said something like "are you sure you want to end the contact with this person?" or something along those lines, and when I clicked yes it just popped back up, so I closed MSN using 'ctrl+alt+del'. I uninstalled MSN Messenger 7.5 and just installed Windows Live Messenger.

So my question is, does anyone know what happaned, and if so do you think my computer is OK now?
Any and all help is much appreciated.

Fri Mar 30, 2007 10:13 pm

You could try an online scanner like Trend Housecall http://www.trendmicro.com/hc_intro/default.asp to check your computer and give you peace of mind.

It's always a good idea to have anti-virus software running on your machine.

Sat Mar 31, 2007 12:08 am

After doing a few google searches, I found some great advice which basically took my system through about 6 different spyware/virus/adware/etc. sweepers and it is now clean as a whistle!

Also, it looks like the virus is fairly recent as all the advice I could find (which was very little) was from the past week or so. So watch out everyone!

And thank you very much Elle. I'm using Panda Software right now, ancd it seems to be doing a grand job.

EDIT: Argh! It's not gone! I'm just gonna have to go to a tech forum or something.

Sat Mar 31, 2007 5:37 am

try downloading AVG virus scanner and scanning your computer - it should sort it out. http://free.grisoft.com/doc/1 it's free and really good

Sat Mar 31, 2007 10:18 am

Rachel wrote:try downloading AVG virus scanner and scanning your computer - it should sort it out. http://free.grisoft.com/doc/1 it's free and really good

I tried that earlier and it didn't help.

OI spent 4 hours fixing this last night, and I am raging. All I had to do was delete 2 files then do a system restore, so it's fine now. The weird thing is, none of the virus scanners I downloaded detected the virus. I thought they were supposed to keep up-to-date?

Tue Apr 03, 2007 6:25 pm

It might be a brand new virus like you suggested earlier... as long as it's gone.

Oh yeah - panda's good btw... I've used that before.