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« on: October 23, 2008, 11:24:48 PM » |
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My laptop just restarted of it's own accord and now I've got a message flashing up in a bubble every 5 seconds from a red circle with a cross bottom right of my computer saying something like:
Windows has detected spyware infection!
Blah blah. Click here for antispyware shit.
So I click and nothing happens.
Has fergus grimmed my laptop?
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Claw75
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« Reply #1 on: October 23, 2008, 11:28:43 PM » |
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Has fergus grimmed my laptop?
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nirvana
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« Reply #2 on: October 23, 2008, 11:43:25 PM » |
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Sounds like a trojan -braviax.exe - quite difficult to remove, hopefully someone here can explain how to diagnose & remove in simple terms. I managed to remove but am not computer articulate enough to describe what eventually worked for me
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Colchester Kev
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« Reply #3 on: October 23, 2008, 11:44:25 PM » |
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'it it wiv an ammer
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Scottish Dave
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« Reply #4 on: October 23, 2008, 11:45:07 PM » |
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My laptop just restarted of it's own accord and now I've got a message flashing up in a bubble every 5 seconds from a red circle with a cross bottom right of my computer saying something like:
Windows has detected spyware infection!
Blah blah. Click here for antispyware shit.
So I click and nothing happens.
Has fergus grimmed my laptop?
Don't ever click anything at all that pops up, even if it leaves an icon your your desk top, most virus through in the line 'anti'spyware' somewhere you make you click on it, on the promise it will rectify the situation, when infact its in initiating the problem Delete, Delete, Delete If it turns out its a Trojan virus, your fekked, that happened to mine, and i had to get my dad (Computer legend) to completely wipe it, and reformat it all!....you can save all the thing you need from the hard drive first tho, with someone that knows that they are doing, |
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« Last Edit: October 23, 2008, 11:46:58 PM by Scottish Dave »
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scotty2hatty
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« Reply #5 on: October 23, 2008, 11:50:54 PM » |
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Sounds like a trojan -braviax.exe - quite difficult to remove, hopefully someone here can explain how to diagnose & remove in simple terms. I managed to remove but am not computer articulate enough to describe what eventually worked for me
ffs, sounds like this could end in tears - i'm off to bed now but it would be sweet if someone could post a few suggestions or buy me a new laptop, thanks. Bubble has stopped popping up so frequently, now once every ten mins or so and can't get it up to display full message but I hope I've described enough to get a decent analysis of problem. |
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scotty2hatty
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« Reply #6 on: October 23, 2008, 11:53:22 PM » |
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My laptop just restarted of it's own accord and now I've got a message flashing up in a bubble every 5 seconds from a red circle with a cross bottom right of my computer saying something like:
Windows has detected spyware infection!
Blah blah. Click here for antispyware shit.
So I click and nothing happens.
Has fergus grimmed my laptop?
Don't ever click anything at all that pops up, even if it leaves an icon your your desk top, most virus through in the line 'anti'spyware' somewhere you make you click on it, on the promise it will rectify the situation, when infact its in initiating the problem bastard, i knew it - had a read on the virus cos the English didn't seem right in the bubble but I clicked anyway cos I was anxious to get it resolved. The virus flipped the nuts. Sick. |
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ACE2M
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« Reply #7 on: October 24, 2008, 12:01:29 AM » |
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google trend housecall, do the scan and then it will clean it up for you. scan takes a while so do it overnight is good.
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scotty2hatty
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« Reply #8 on: October 24, 2008, 12:02:39 AM » |
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my dad (Computer legend)
Your Dad is Super Mario? |
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scotty2hatty
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« Reply #9 on: October 24, 2008, 12:15:13 AM » |
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google trend housecall, do the scan and then it will clean it up for you. scan takes a while so do it overnight is good.
further news on this bugger of a virus - it has changed my internet home page to google.com but when u search for something it looks a bit iffy as the letters of the search results are a bit bigger than normal, also when u click on the link u want it directs u to whatever page it wants! Please help sirs. can someone maybe give me a direct link to trend housecall? |
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scotty2hatty
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« Reply #10 on: October 24, 2008, 12:17:52 AM » |
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tried using a different search engine but same thing happens bizarrely - when I click the link for trend housecall i get directed to www.abcjmp.com....... |
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gatso
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« Reply #11 on: October 24, 2008, 12:59:53 AM » |
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no idea what trend housecall is but this is the link when I google it http://housecall.trendmicro.com/uk/ |
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kinboshi
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« Reply #12 on: October 24, 2008, 09:26:32 AM » |
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Boot up in safe mode and then do a windows restore to a date before you were infected.
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scotty2hatty
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« Reply #14 on: October 24, 2008, 12:46:22 PM » |
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Boot up in safe mode and then do a windows restore to a date before you were infected.
how do i boot up in safe mode? |
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