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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

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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

oh they sound scary.
and my norton, AVG, all of them have run out.
eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

thanks for the heads up:thumbs:

:shocked: and thanks :thumbs:

Already had it. . It is so annoying it will make give you a pop literally every 20 secs. and it ****s up your desktop. Ask if anyone needs help with it.

wow i dont understand any of that

Thanks for telling us

thanks for that chewy

Thank god for Macs. :bigsmile: (Hi-Fives Sia)
Although at the moment, I'm getting this stupid link thingy through Messenger, which when you click gives your computer a virus.

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Originally posted by Xander
Thank god for Macs. :bigsmile: (Hi-Fives Sia)
Although at the moment, I'm getting this stupid link thingy through Messenger, which when you click gives your computer a virus.

-highfives!-
x

It got my computer a couple of months ago. I had to completley wipe the computer and start again. I lost 4yrs worth of music and pictures. I wasnt impressed:mad:

I had a problem in 2005 with something called Winfix 2005

There are so called software packeages that claim to clean your machine, then say it is infected and make you pay a lot to "Clean them" but secretly they do nothing of the sort and have been written by the virus writers.

It also seems that NASA has been having problems as well

Ditch Norton. It has more holes than a Swiss cheese. I started having major problems a while back. After having a mate spend two and a half days fixing it he installed ESET NOD32 anti virus £30 ish and Comodo firewall pro £0.00 When these were installed and scans were done along with Spybot Search and Destroy £0.00 it found around a 100 things that Norton was insistent were not there.

I won't touch Norton again.

Can't you just go into Safe Mode and uninstall it?