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Major virus attack, need help with cleanup/repair.
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Author:  smithno13 [ Sun Oct 19, 2008 3:43 am ]
Post subject:  Major virus attack, need help with cleanup/repair.
Ive cleaned out the virus but it left a mess. Problems are;
Windows live search engine and google link to popups, ask search engine is simply blocked.
Desktop background is plain blue, and I can no longer change it. "Desktop" tab is missing from the desktop properties menu.
Avast cannot start due to permissions (I need to reinstall, I know that)
And alot of other issues that im finding every day. Anyone know fixes to any of these?
Oh and the virus/adware uninstalled my IE7 pro AdBlocker (Lol, they want me to see the ads :P)
Author:  Grif [ Sun Oct 19, 2008 6:56 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Major virus attack, need help with cleanup/repair.
If your ♥♥♥♥ is that ♥♥♥♥, you're better off reformatting than fixing all of that. You'd end up worse off than before.

Make backups of everything you need and do a clean installation of windows.

And make sure not to get backups of the viruses.
Author:  Ophanim [ Sun Oct 19, 2008 10:21 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Major virus attack, need help with cleanup/repair.
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Hosts file, find the entry for windows live and google, delete 'em. Hell you could probably delete everything in there except for the ♥♥♥♥ with the # before it. I know adblocking programs place entries in there but default windows doesn't.
Author:  Skiv [ Sun Oct 19, 2008 10:27 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Major virus attack, need help with cleanup/repair.
use HijackThis!, ComboFix, and voila, you are set.
Author:  Ophanim [ Sun Oct 19, 2008 5:49 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Major virus attack, need help with cleanup/repair.
Something like this should be done manually, not with a program.
Author:  TrouserDemon [ Sun Oct 19, 2008 5:55 pm ]
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Hijackthis pretty much is manual.
Author:  Ophanim [ Sun Oct 19, 2008 6:08 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Major virus attack, need help with cleanup/repair.
So it's a useless program that gives you a shiny press button receive stupidity GUI that allows you to do exactly the same thing doing it manually would do without the assurance that it's only doing what you tell it to do.
Do it manually.
Author:  TrouserDemon [ Sun Oct 19, 2008 6:19 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Major virus attack, need help with cleanup/repair.
Have you uh, tried Hijackthis?

It's not exactly like that.

At all.
Author:  cambiogris [ Sun Oct 19, 2008 7:37 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Major virus attack, need help with cleanup/repair.
all it really does is list things brought up on startup through each of windows' various methods and let you look for suspicious things

I would also recommend autoruns and process explorer, they do similar stuff but it's all manual really

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Author:  Ophanim [ Sun Oct 19, 2008 8:37 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Major virus attack, need help with cleanup/repair.
Well from what cambiogris said, it's exactly what I said. It gives you a GUI for ♥♥♥♥ you can do manually easy.
Author:  cambiogris [ Sun Oct 19, 2008 9:37 pm ]
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I really don't see why having multiple (a lot more than shown here) regedit and explorer windows is easier than having it in one place

HijackThis! isn't some magic fixing tool, it just lists ♥♥♥♥

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Author:  Ophanim [ Sun Oct 19, 2008 11:06 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Major virus attack, need help with cleanup/repair.
I don't trust anything with my registry. Stupid programmers try to help and then ♥♥♥♥ ♥♥♥♥ up.
Author:  smithno13 [ Mon Oct 20, 2008 6:29 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Major virus attack, need help with cleanup/repair.
Dont want to do a reformat... Ive done alot of stuff with the registry, and im sure some of my fixes (the background one) are registry things. With the host file, I dont get as much as you. I get 5 files; hosts, networks, services, lmhosts, and protocol
Author:  Ophanim [ Mon Oct 20, 2008 5:35 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Major virus attack, need help with cleanup/repair.
I've added files, and that's a folder ♥♥♥♥, not a file. Open hosts with notepad.
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