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Viruses.. They are getting annoying!!

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    Rocky Moore
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    A family member said their computer was blue screening.. Got this great little yellow popup saying the computer is infected and to click to protect your machine from spyware. Okay, thow Avg on there and ready to go.. Nope, AVG will not start after installed. Alight, will try Avast, nope the virus kills it. Though in Hackthis to check it out and the virus deletes it. Would someone just take this morons who are writing the virus out behind the wood shed for a little spanking? This is getting too costly in time!

    Rocky <>< Recent Blog Post: Chocolate Chip Cookies!

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      A family member said their computer was blue screening.. Got this great little yellow popup saying the computer is infected and to click to protect your machine from spyware. Okay, thow Avg on there and ready to go.. Nope, AVG will not start after installed. Alight, will try Avast, nope the virus kills it. Though in Hackthis to check it out and the virus deletes it. Would someone just take this morons who are writing the virus out behind the wood shed for a little spanking? This is getting too costly in time!

      Rocky <>< Recent Blog Post: Chocolate Chip Cookies!

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      0x3c0
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      Have you tried starting AVG when you've booted Windows into safe mode? AFAIK, that shouldn't allow the virus to run, so you can clean it safely

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      • R Rocky Moore

        A family member said their computer was blue screening.. Got this great little yellow popup saying the computer is infected and to click to protect your machine from spyware. Okay, thow Avg on there and ready to go.. Nope, AVG will not start after installed. Alight, will try Avast, nope the virus kills it. Though in Hackthis to check it out and the virus deletes it. Would someone just take this morons who are writing the virus out behind the wood shed for a little spanking? This is getting too costly in time!

        Rocky <>< Recent Blog Post: Chocolate Chip Cookies!

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        • R Rocky Moore

          A family member said their computer was blue screening.. Got this great little yellow popup saying the computer is infected and to click to protect your machine from spyware. Okay, thow Avg on there and ready to go.. Nope, AVG will not start after installed. Alight, will try Avast, nope the virus kills it. Though in Hackthis to check it out and the virus deletes it. Would someone just take this morons who are writing the virus out behind the wood shed for a little spanking? This is getting too costly in time!

          Rocky <>< Recent Blog Post: Chocolate Chip Cookies!

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          Lost User
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          FORMAT C:

          :| I *hate* viruses!

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          • R Rocky Moore

            A family member said their computer was blue screening.. Got this great little yellow popup saying the computer is infected and to click to protect your machine from spyware. Okay, thow Avg on there and ready to go.. Nope, AVG will not start after installed. Alight, will try Avast, nope the virus kills it. Though in Hackthis to check it out and the virus deletes it. Would someone just take this morons who are writing the virus out behind the wood shed for a little spanking? This is getting too costly in time!

            Rocky <>< Recent Blog Post: Chocolate Chip Cookies!

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            Gary Wheeler
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            Rocky Moore wrote:

            Would someone just take this morons who are writing the virus out behind the wood shed for a little spanking?

            Spanking? Spanking? How about putting them in a little red dress, lipstick, and heels, and dumping them in the nearest maximum security prison? How about burying them in a fire ant nest? How about mounting their heads on pikes outside the castle walls as a warning to others?

            Software Zen: delete this;

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            • R Rocky Moore

              A family member said their computer was blue screening.. Got this great little yellow popup saying the computer is infected and to click to protect your machine from spyware. Okay, thow Avg on there and ready to go.. Nope, AVG will not start after installed. Alight, will try Avast, nope the virus kills it. Though in Hackthis to check it out and the virus deletes it. Would someone just take this morons who are writing the virus out behind the wood shed for a little spanking? This is getting too costly in time!

              Rocky <>< Recent Blog Post: Chocolate Chip Cookies!

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              Brady Kelly
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              I had an infection on Monday. The only thing that cured it was a Vista System Restore, to the morning before I got infected.

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                Rocky Moore wrote:

                Would someone just take this morons who are writing the virus out behind the wood shed for a little spanking?

                Spanking? Spanking? How about putting them in a little red dress, lipstick, and heels, and dumping them in the nearest maximum security prison? How about burying them in a fire ant nest? How about mounting their heads on pikes outside the castle walls as a warning to others?

                Software Zen: delete this;

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                Dan Neely
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                Gary Wheeler wrote:

                How about mounting their heads on pikes

                ...as a warning to the next ten generations that some favors come with too high a price. I would look up into your lifeless eyes and wave like this.

                The European Way of War: Blow your own continent up. The American Way of War: Go over and help them.

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                  A family member said their computer was blue screening.. Got this great little yellow popup saying the computer is infected and to click to protect your machine from spyware. Okay, thow Avg on there and ready to go.. Nope, AVG will not start after installed. Alight, will try Avast, nope the virus kills it. Though in Hackthis to check it out and the virus deletes it. Would someone just take this morons who are writing the virus out behind the wood shed for a little spanking? This is getting too costly in time!

                  Rocky <>< Recent Blog Post: Chocolate Chip Cookies!

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                  Single Step Debugger
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                  Clean everything from windows startup and temporally rename svchost.exe to prevent it from starting. Reboot the PC and try to install your AV software, though I doubt that AVG will clean the virus entirely, especially if it is a frickin downloader and you already have zillions of spyware in your system. I would use Webroot Spy Sweeper just to be sure that everything is clean but it’s costs $25 so it’s up to you.

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                  • G Gary Wheeler

                    Rocky Moore wrote:

                    Would someone just take this morons who are writing the virus out behind the wood shed for a little spanking?

                    Spanking? Spanking? How about putting them in a little red dress, lipstick, and heels, and dumping them in the nearest maximum security prison? How about burying them in a fire ant nest? How about mounting their heads on pikes outside the castle walls as a warning to others?

                    Software Zen: delete this;

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                    Tom Deketelaere
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                    Gary Wheeler wrote:

                    How about putting them in a little red dress, lipstick, and heels, and dumping them in the nearest maximum security prison?

                    Just make sure its not a prison in Belgium ;P

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                      Gary Wheeler wrote:

                      How about mounting their heads on pikes

                      ...as a warning to the next ten generations that some favors come with too high a price. I would look up into your lifeless eyes and wave like this.

                      The European Way of War: Blow your own continent up. The American Way of War: Go over and help them.

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                      Gary Wheeler
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                      dan neely wrote:

                      I would look up into your lifeless eyes and wave like this.

                      Huh? I write control software for commerical ink-jet printing systems[^], not viruses.

                      Software Zen: delete this;

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                      • R Rocky Moore

                        A family member said their computer was blue screening.. Got this great little yellow popup saying the computer is infected and to click to protect your machine from spyware. Okay, thow Avg on there and ready to go.. Nope, AVG will not start after installed. Alight, will try Avast, nope the virus kills it. Though in Hackthis to check it out and the virus deletes it. Would someone just take this morons who are writing the virus out behind the wood shed for a little spanking? This is getting too costly in time!

                        Rocky <>< Recent Blog Post: Chocolate Chip Cookies!

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                        Michael Bookatz
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                        I would put the hard drive eon to another machine and virus scan it from there. that way not booting onto it and should be okay

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                        • R Rocky Moore

                          A family member said their computer was blue screening.. Got this great little yellow popup saying the computer is infected and to click to protect your machine from spyware. Okay, thow Avg on there and ready to go.. Nope, AVG will not start after installed. Alight, will try Avast, nope the virus kills it. Though in Hackthis to check it out and the virus deletes it. Would someone just take this morons who are writing the virus out behind the wood shed for a little spanking? This is getting too costly in time!

                          Rocky <>< Recent Blog Post: Chocolate Chip Cookies!

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                          David Knechtges
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                          Another way to get rid of it without putting it in another machine is to get something like Ultimate Boot CD for Windows and run your antivirus from that CD. That CD has proven invaluable to me for troubleshooting and rescuing dead or dying machines.....

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                            Rocky Moore wrote:

                            Would someone just take this morons who are writing the virus out behind the wood shed for a little spanking?

                            Spanking? Spanking? How about putting them in a little red dress, lipstick, and heels, and dumping them in the nearest maximum security prison? How about burying them in a fire ant nest? How about mounting their heads on pikes outside the castle walls as a warning to others?

                            Software Zen: delete this;

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                            Mustafa Ismail Mustafa
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                            OR, how about.. bombarding them continuously until "there's nothing left of him [them] but a black, glassy crater"? :cool:

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                              A family member said their computer was blue screening.. Got this great little yellow popup saying the computer is infected and to click to protect your machine from spyware. Okay, thow Avg on there and ready to go.. Nope, AVG will not start after installed. Alight, will try Avast, nope the virus kills it. Though in Hackthis to check it out and the virus deletes it. Would someone just take this morons who are writing the virus out behind the wood shed for a little spanking? This is getting too costly in time!

                              Rocky <>< Recent Blog Post: Chocolate Chip Cookies!

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                              Jeff Circeo
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                              I feel the same way, I just spent 20 min on comment spam

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                                Another way to get rid of it without putting it in another machine is to get something like Ultimate Boot CD for Windows and run your antivirus from that CD. That CD has proven invaluable to me for troubleshooting and rescuing dead or dying machines.....

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                                Obliterator
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                                I'd second the UBCD route - its excellent! A bit time consuming to make in the first place, but once you have the CD its invaluable! You can easily update it's virus definitions and burn another with the latest protection. Just boot from it without having the virus interfere and you can nuke it once and for all! The CD also contains loads of recovery tools which also prove invaluable.

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                                  Rocky Moore wrote:

                                  Would someone just take this morons who are writing the virus out behind the wood shed for a little spanking?

                                  Spanking? Spanking? How about putting them in a little red dress, lipstick, and heels, and dumping them in the nearest maximum security prison? How about burying them in a fire ant nest? How about mounting their heads on pikes outside the castle walls as a warning to others?

                                  Software Zen: delete this;

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                                  Single Step Debugger
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                                  As I always keep saying, those stinky bags full with fat gross redundant protoplasm who creates the viruses causes far more damage to the society than the bank-robbers. So I believe they MUST geting at least the same sentences and to be chased in the same way the bank-robbers are.

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                                    Gary Wheeler wrote:

                                    How about mounting their heads on pikes

                                    ...as a warning to the next ten generations that some favors come with too high a price. I would look up into your lifeless eyes and wave like this.

                                    The European Way of War: Blow your own continent up. The American Way of War: Go over and help them.

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                                    Rhuros
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                                    Good to see Babylon 5 quotes are still alive...

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                                      OR, how about.. bombarding them continuously until "there's nothing left of him [them] but a black, glassy crater"? :cool:

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                                      Gary Wheeler
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                                      Works for me :-D. I've only had to clean up after a virus infection once, but that was enough. I had to buy a new hard drive for a clean install, so that I could preserve the old one to recover my archived e-mail and such. I also spent about a week restoring my machine to running condition. I probably lost somewhere between $1000 and $1200 total, in terms of time and hardware.

                                      Software Zen: delete this;

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                                      • T Tom Deketelaere

                                        Gary Wheeler wrote:

                                        How about putting them in a little red dress, lipstick, and heels, and dumping them in the nearest maximum security prison?

                                        Just make sure its not a prison in Belgium ;P

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                                        Luc Pattyn
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                                        And why would that be? rather than paying the Dutch people for hosting forced tourists, we have found a way to solve the problem for free. Thnak you Moroccan prisons. :laugh:

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                                          Good to see Babylon 5 quotes are still alive...

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                                          Gary Wheeler
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                                          Ah; that explains it. I've only watched Babylon 5 through once (but I plan to do so again), so I don't have many of the lines 'on tap'.

                                          Software Zen: delete this;

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