Scarlett.
28-08-2008, 11:42 PM
Hello
This is a nasty one. Wanted to put warning out. I had Nortons Antivirus installed, my firewalls up, pop-ups blocks, and web sites censorsed. Nortons Antivirus said it blocked all 1,732 incidents. I followed everything down to the letter and rebooted as it said. When it restarted the numbers of viruses doubled. It completely wiped out My Documents folder.
When I did a clean install (as if my computer were new) I lost all my drivers. Oh don't forget if you have Internet Explorer 7, uninstall it before reinstalling Windows XP SP2 (it has IE 6), if you don't you will get grief.
I even lost my LAN set-up.
Well all is well now after investing nearly 18 hours, and I still have a few more installs to do.
I have now switched to McAfee Antivirus.
Someone from www.silenthill5.net
My PC has gone pear shaped due to something I didn't do.
It is called AntivirXP2008 . Do not ever let it in. !!
It masquerades as something from Windows, once it installs itself, you can't shift it.
My son-in-law spent half the morning trying to fix it. For a fee of $39 some form of spy-remover will fix it.
As it was nothing to do with me how it got there, I totally object to paying out.
So tomorrow ( after saving stuff to disc ) we are taking the PC back to it's default settings.
I just thought I would warn everyone as this thing is downright sneaky, and sticks to your PC like s*** to a shovel.
Someone from Weatherfeild Web
Watch out for them
This is a nasty one. Wanted to put warning out. I had Nortons Antivirus installed, my firewalls up, pop-ups blocks, and web sites censorsed. Nortons Antivirus said it blocked all 1,732 incidents. I followed everything down to the letter and rebooted as it said. When it restarted the numbers of viruses doubled. It completely wiped out My Documents folder.
When I did a clean install (as if my computer were new) I lost all my drivers. Oh don't forget if you have Internet Explorer 7, uninstall it before reinstalling Windows XP SP2 (it has IE 6), if you don't you will get grief.
I even lost my LAN set-up.
Well all is well now after investing nearly 18 hours, and I still have a few more installs to do.
I have now switched to McAfee Antivirus.
Someone from www.silenthill5.net
My PC has gone pear shaped due to something I didn't do.
It is called AntivirXP2008 . Do not ever let it in. !!
It masquerades as something from Windows, once it installs itself, you can't shift it.
My son-in-law spent half the morning trying to fix it. For a fee of $39 some form of spy-remover will fix it.
As it was nothing to do with me how it got there, I totally object to paying out.
So tomorrow ( after saving stuff to disc ) we are taking the PC back to it's default settings.
I just thought I would warn everyone as this thing is downright sneaky, and sticks to your PC like s*** to a shovel.
Someone from Weatherfeild Web
Watch out for them