RE: Virus?

From: Panda_man (Pandaman_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 10/30/05 

Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2005 00:23:02 -0700

There are some viruses that doesn't allow the users to visit the antivirus
vendors web-sites and also prevent the user from running their current
antivirus.

Ok,read that carefully :

You need to get an antivirus from another known-clean(100% clean) computer
Then copy it to your computer and then immediately boot in Safe Mode and
install it.
When you install it again boot in Safe Mode and copy its definitions.
Again in Safe Mode perform a full scan.

The easiet would be to goto your friends house and download from its computer
(his/hers computer have to 100% malware free)

Download
F-prot for Windows (trial) 3.16c
and F-prot's definitions (fp-def and macro-def ):
http://www.f-prot.com/products/home_use/

Then ,as I mentioned ,boot your pc in Safe Mode ,install F-prot in Safe
Mode and then unzip its 2 definitions files.

Then restart with booting in
 Safe Mode with Command prompt

How to boot in Safe Mode /Safe Mode with command prompt :
Do this by repeatedly typing F8 while Windows is starting before
        Windows logo appears.
        Then you'll open the BIOS menu where you can choose to boot
        the hard drive in SAFE MODE WITH COMMAND PROMPT

Type this

cd \ [ENTER]
cd "program files" [ENTER]
cd fsi [ENTER]
cd f-prot [ENTER]
fpcmd c: /disinf /auto /dumb /archive=3 /report=report.txt [ENTER]

NB! If the scanner simply runs for about 2-3 seconds and then reports that
it only scanned the boot sector and mbr it is likely that you did not put a
space in between the commands. There is a space in front of all the commands,
i.e. SPACE /disinf SPACE /auto etc.

Also note that [ENTER] means that you have to press ENTER button

That way F-prot would scan your computer and clean it from viruses
successfully (hopefully)

Good luck !

Panda_man
" Let's beat malware black and blue "
" No new epidemics of all kind of malware -> Panda TruPrevent "

"Moose" wrote:

> The other night, while I was chatting on MSN Messenger, I had a conversation
> window pop up from a friend. The conversation states something along the
> lines of:
>
> Wow, is this really you?
>
> There was a link and, in my stupidity, I clicked on the link. A program
> loaded to my computer and now, I am unable to log into MSN Messenger, or
> retrieve my Hotmail account via the Hotmail website. It also appears that
> this program shut off my virus scanner (I have Norton), and will not allow
> me to conduct a system scan. I tried to download AVG from their website (it
> was recommended by a guy from work), and I cannot get onto the website. All
> I receive when I do try is something about the page being unavailable.
>
> A friend told me to check the processes my computer is running and, to look
> for SVCHOST.EXE, which I have 5 occurences of this particular file running
> on my computer. I tried to shut down one of these processes, and my
> computer gave me 55 seconds to save all unsaved work and proceeded to shut
> my computer down.
>
> Any suggestions on how I can get this virus off my computer?
>
>
>