Barbara Logan-Price Posted December 20, 2007 Report Share Posted December 20, 2007 (edited) hi somehow i managed to get a virus (win32) if thats any help now when i turn my computer on it gets to the windows logon screen i logon and all that comes up is my desktop background i can get onto stuff using task manager but when my anti virus says it has deleted the virus it gets detected again. really annoying me now :@ any help will be very much appreciated cheers Alex Edited December 21, 2007 by Alex_davies Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Cristoff Posted December 20, 2007 Report Share Posted December 20, 2007 What anti virus you using? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
downhill_rob2@hotmail.com Posted December 20, 2007 Report Share Posted December 20, 2007 I had this virus, i had to reformat my pc, and it was still there lol, so i deleted it though safe mode, i then got a better anti-virus, and i havnt had one since that was nearly a year ago woot! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barbara Logan-Price Posted December 20, 2007 Author Report Share Posted December 20, 2007 What anti virus you using?avg and active virus shield Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danny Kearns Posted December 20, 2007 Report Share Posted December 20, 2007 Who is your internet service provider ?AVG is teriable to be fair. Had no end of trouble in the past.Danny. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barbara Logan-Price Posted December 20, 2007 Author Report Share Posted December 20, 2007 its a problem with the computer not the internet Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danny Kearns Posted December 20, 2007 Report Share Posted December 20, 2007 I know but who is your Internet service provider ?Danny. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barbara Logan-Price Posted December 20, 2007 Author Report Share Posted December 20, 2007 I know but who is your Internet service provider ?Danny.not sure Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadManMike Posted December 20, 2007 Report Share Posted December 20, 2007 I run no Anti Virus or Ad ware stuff, never get any problems.Just be careful what you download / browse From the sounds of it you're best off formatting the HD and starting again - that is unless you have coursework / important stuff on there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barbara Logan-Price Posted December 20, 2007 Author Report Share Posted December 20, 2007 I run no Anti Virus or Ad ware stuff, never get any problems.Just be careful what you download / browse From the sounds of it you're best off formatting the HD and starting again - that is unless you have coursework / important stuff on there.i have a fair bit of important stuff on here the only option i can think of is buy an external hard drive and shove everything on that then format it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danny Kearns Posted December 20, 2007 Report Share Posted December 20, 2007 (edited) I keep everything on my external harddrive. Saying that it is 1TB . There is actually nothing on my pc.Much safer IMO.Danny. Edited December 20, 2007 by Danny Kearns Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomm Posted December 21, 2007 Report Share Posted December 21, 2007 I wonder what the risks are of the virus infecting external hard drives. In the past (like, 10 years ago) viruses used to be able to infect all your disks if you used them in the computer (we had a virus like that) - so anything you backed up would re-introduce the virus on your clean install if you weren't careful. Does anyone actually know what the risk of that happening is? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadManMike Posted December 21, 2007 Report Share Posted December 21, 2007 I wonder what the risks are of the virus infecting external hard drives. In the past (like, 10 years ago) viruses used to be able to infect all your disks if you used them in the computer (we had a virus like that) - so anything you backed up would re-introduce the virus on your clean install if you weren't careful. Does anyone actually know what the risk of that happening is?It's perfectly possible, depends if the virus is one that goes and sits somewhere or if it clones itself.Especially if one of the things your backing up is infected, it's almost guaranteed to do over the external! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlie Jennings Posted December 21, 2007 Report Share Posted December 21, 2007 I wonder what the risks are of the virus infecting external hard drives. In the past (like, 10 years ago) viruses used to be able to infect all your disks if you used them in the computer (we had a virus like that) - so anything you backed up would re-introduce the virus on your clean install if you weren't careful. Does anyone actually know what the risk of that happening is?I've heard you can get a virus on your motherboard! even a format wont cure it.Try googling 'Hijackthis' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomm Posted December 21, 2007 Report Share Posted December 21, 2007 You can certainly get viruses that infect the MBR of your hard drive - which doesn't get wiped with a format. Never heard of one on the motherboard, but google suggests there may be one that could affect the CMOS. Which is a b*****d. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadManMike Posted December 21, 2007 Report Share Posted December 21, 2007 I run no Anti Virus or Ad ware stuff, never get any problems.Just be careful what you download / browse From the sounds of it you're best off formatting the HD and starting again - that is unless you have coursework / important stuff on there.Jinxed myself there - spent this morning going back to a Restore point because of some b*****d virus. Got it, downloaded Avira to clear it, that got infected and in the end could only boot in safe mode!Still, gone back to Wednesday now and it's all gravy (Apart from losing some stuff I did last night, though I could have lost everything) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spode@thinkbikes Posted December 21, 2007 Report Share Posted December 21, 2007 On Windows, I use AVG. I've never had an issue - but then I'm not sure I've ever had any infections to deal with as I'm pretty careful with what I download etc.I'm on Linux now, so Viruses, do your worst! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barbara Logan-Price Posted December 21, 2007 Author Report Share Posted December 21, 2007 fixed now and i still have all my filesthe virus had deleted my explorer.exe file so i had to get it off the repair disc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grant Hundley Posted December 22, 2007 Report Share Posted December 22, 2007 was just about to post saying it sounds like explorer isnt running..i had this problem once, went onto task manager and selected new task and put in explorer..linux ftw Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hendrix Posted December 22, 2007 Report Share Posted December 22, 2007 I use Avast!, and it's a great little Anti Virus. Along with Zone Alarm and Win Patrol, I've never had any trouble.Saying that, my PC is running crazy slow for no reason Once I get my Mac, no viruses EVER again Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crazy_gap girl Posted December 22, 2007 Report Share Posted December 22, 2007 I use Avast!, and it's a great little Anti Virus. Along with Zone Alarm and Win Patrol, I've never had any trouble.Saying that, my PC is running crazy slow for no reason Once I get my Mac, no viruses EVER again yeah avast, i use it on the pc.. its pretty good!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grant Hundley Posted December 23, 2007 Report Share Posted December 23, 2007 I use Avast!, and it's a great little Anti Virus. Along with Zone Alarm and Win Patrol, I've never had any trouble.Saying that, my PC is running crazy slow for no reason Once I get my Mac, no viruses EVER again why get a mac when linux is free? your just paying for a white lump of willy dribble Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomm Posted December 23, 2007 Report Share Posted December 23, 2007 Linux is rubbish. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gavyn. Posted December 23, 2007 Report Share Posted December 23, 2007 another vote for avast it's been brilliant for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UrbanPoet Posted December 23, 2007 Report Share Posted December 23, 2007 why get a mac when linux is free? your just paying for a white lump of willy dribbleLinux is far from user-friendly, there's no arguing about that. Plus OSX is fit, it's just a shame about the hardware that comes with it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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