Help......

[clarinetJWD]

Reformat and INSTALL LINUX (only partially kidding)

I've been dual booting Ubuntu Hardy Heron and Vista on my laptop for a while, and for everyday tasks, Linux is very, very good. As long as there's a Synaptic package for the software you need, you're good. If there's not, you better be ready for some command line fun!

I've found it to be (same gues for SuSE which I used on and off for years) that most things work perfectly, and it's quick and stable until you find that one thing that it doesn't do on its own...then you're in for quite the ride.

 

[Battou]

I've forgotten howmuch it sucks navigating on a computer that is this stripped down.......

 

[JohnMF]

Yeah, Ad-aware and Spybot Search and destroy have both failed, I was hoping to avoid the reformat.

mrodgers, Thanks for the heads up. This is not my computer, I got in tonight to find out she (the owner) installed just that...


Time to reformat, I have no choice.

the actual virus file/.exe is prob re-inventing itself every time you reboot... if you can find the name of it, you can google it, and there will no doubt be instructions somewhere on the net on how to manually remove it yourself

 

[Battou]

the actual virus file/.exe is prob re-inventing itself every time you reboot... if you can find the name of it, you can google it, and there will no doubt be instructions somewhere on the net on how to manually remove it yourself

Yes it was in fact doing just that, unfortunately Google along with many other pages where blocked, all I could get access to was forums. Every forum I use and then some where accessable (with all their ads replaced with porn TPF included) however any main page (TPF included) or standard search engine was completely disabled. Both Firefox and IE7 locked up when trying to access any thing other than a forum.

 

[Senor Hound]

(with all their ads replaced with porn TPF included)

I'm failing to see a problem here...

 

[Overread]

I'm failing to see a problem here...

there tends to be no porn but more viruses at the end of a virus redirect

 

[mrodgers]

Windows Defender is for prevention, not damage control...if the malware compromised the OS that much, I don't think blaming Windows Defender is the answer. I've been happily using it for years. On 5 computers.

I somehow missed all the comments since I posted in this....

He did not have any malware on the computer. Thus he did not get Windows Defender for damage control. His subscription to Norton was up and he searched out an alternative and found Windows Defender. After purchasing (in a store, on disk) and installing, he found his computer nearly useless as everything was redirected in his browser and the computer ground nearly to a halt.

I agree about Norton as well, and no matter what I said, he still insisted on Norton through that first year of computer ownership. After formatting his hard drive to get rid of Windows Defender, he went back to Norton. No issues again other then the normal resource hogging of his Norton.

 

[Battou]

I'm failing to see a problem here...

Amoung this comupters opperators are an eight year old girl and a ten year old boy.

 

[Senor Hound]

Amoung this comupters opperators are an eight year old girl and a ten year old boy.

I'm starting to see a problem here. Did you try running the ad-aware and AVG in safe mode? I'm no computer genius, but on my computer its fixed things it didn't in regular mode. My only thought behind this is that it beats the heck out of reformatting...

 

[Battou]

I'm starting to see a problem here. Did you try running the ad-aware and AVG in safe mode? I'm no computer genius, but on my computer its fixed things it didn't in regular mode. My only thought behind this is that it beats the heck out of reformatting...

Oh yeah, I tried everything I knew, everything denis (Owner of PL) knew and everything John (local computer repair person) knew.


It was toast.