Virus?

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I got an anonymous IM yesterday that said something to the effect of
Click this link. i know what youre thinking. what huh just do it.
didnt think anything of it and clicked it and it brought me to a blank webpage
Now im starting to think my comps been hacked its slower than usual am i being paranoid or should i run extra antivirus software to be safe.

Senior Member From : England OS : XP/Ubuntu

Can't hurt, my advice, disable all internet going onto that computer. If you are on a wireless network run virus scans on all computers.
Download some antivirus software if you don't have any already. The more programs the more likely you are to catch somehing.
Reboot into safe mode and run all the virus scans and see if you pick anything up.

Hope that helps but you probably know it all already. happy

Subject: Re: Virus? November 20th 2008, 8:09 pm

You might be paranoid tongue

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But, if you're sure something's slower, check your processes. See if anything is using too much CPU or if a strange process is running (google it and it'll tell you if its safe or not).
To be safe, you could also dowload AVG 8 Free edition - works very well in my opinion smile

Moderator OS : Windows XP

Yea as Sbux said, check you processes.
I had a nasty little bug that had a firefox process open constantly even if I wasn't connected to the internet.
And I also recommend AVG free, works fine, although full edition is always better wink

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thanks

i hate that ppl that would want to invade on my privacy or doing something malicious but it happens. i know alot about comps myself and its pretty easy. im not to worried about it because i do most stuff on my portable. my home comp i only use for leisure and dont have anything but junk. but still thanks for the feedback tongue

Subject: Re: Virus? November 29th 2008, 1:41 pm

abloggingape wrote:: thanks i hate that ppl that would want to invade on my privacy or doing something malicious but it happens. i know alot about comps myself and its pretty easy. im not to worried about it because i do most stuff on my portable. my home comp i only use for leisure and dont have anything but junk. but still thanks for the feedback

don't be negative about ur friend (or ppl u have on IM), cause i caught one of those viruses -.- cause a friend of mine had it on MSN ... and the only way to remove it was format C:/ .. since it only did spam with some strange url on chats i was not worried.. but my computer became slow as hell after a couple of days

Senior Member From : England OS : XP/Ubuntu

Yeah i get a little confused about those IM links, i never know whether i have the virus or they do.

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thanks guys... i couldnt find anything and i downloaded like ten different detectors.
but i still feel like someones watching me. darn i need to get a mac...
as part of my wishlist finally so i dont have to deal with this worried

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I hate IM viruses.. sucks...

My best method to combat virus would be:
download a program called HijackThis, run it and have it scan and save a log file, it basically scans your computer and tells you wants running. You can either go through this yourself, and terminate the process, or post it over at geekstogo forums, and they normally take a short while analyzing it telling you how to combat the virus. Its also good to have process explorer from sysinternal, you can get it from microsoft technet, its basically what it says, and its hella more powerful then taskmanager.

Hope that helps wink

. Some IM viruses arn't lethal tho, and it maybe your friend only, who has it....

I'm New From : Yorkshire OS : Vista Ultimate, Win 7.

What I do when I'm worried about virus', I do a hijackthis log check, if all the running process' are fine, I then do a virus scan.

Sometimes however what I do is take out the hard drive, and mount it in an enclosure and scan it on a different computer- so if the virus is clever enough to mess with the AV, it'll be found on the untouched computer.

Subject: Re: Virus? December 11th 2008, 9:42 pm

Rob wrote:: What I do when I'm worried about virus', I do a hijackthis log check, if all the running process' are fine, I then do a virus scan.

Sometimes however what I do is take out the hard drive, and mount it in an enclosure and scan it on a different computer- so if the virus is clever enough to mess with the AV, it'll be found on the untouched computer.

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that's some smart thing to do happy

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i'm normally in my ubuntu installation, so i don't get many problems with viruses and whatsoever.. but the other day, i was downloading Adobe photoshop 7 trial from download.com and i got a Trojan / spyware whatever, that was always showing a page to download total antivirus 2009 blablabla... but i was running it on wine through linux.. so i could test first before i was on windows.. guess who would be owned...

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i found out it was just one of my friends pranking me, trying to make me paranoid because i pwned him hard.
thats ok i got him back... oh how the tables turn...

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hes annoying dude too never liked him kept sending me weird anon messages on aim under diff names. now thats all over. what a relief confused

Subject: Re: Virus? February 24th 2009, 12:57 pm

Pretty sure its near impossible.

Firefox has so many security precautions it's ridiculous. You'd have to have some sort of 0-day active-x exploit, and I doubt somebody with the skills to outsmart Firefox would be posting around links to a blank page to infect them; they'd rather hide it in an iFrame inside of an inconspicuous looking webpage and have it infect you without your knowing.

[Edit] aaaand I just read your last two posts. lol =p

Subject: Re: Virus? February 24th 2009, 4:11 pm

Rob wrote:: What I do when I'm worried about virus', I do a hijackthis log check, if all the running process' are fine, I then do a virus scan.

Sometimes however what I do is take out the hard drive, and mount it in an enclosure and scan it on a different computer- so if the virus is clever enough to mess with the AV, it'll be found on the untouched computer.

I format windows principal partition (format C:\\) , and all problems are gone tongue

... it's not easy to get your computer infected... if you pay enough atention you would be ok with no antivirus at all ..

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hostile wrote:: Pretty sure its near impossible.
[Edit] aaaand I just read your last two posts. lol =p

yea... i sent out fake notices from his myspace and started a rumor he was going to be in gay porn =p

Regular Visitor From : Portugal OS : vista home premium

if you have windows download this program http://www.malwarebytes.org/index.php and do a scan
or download the program hijacthis http://download.hijackthis.eu/HJTInstall.exe and do a scan and save a log file and put the log file in this site http://www.hijackthis.de/ to analyse

Subject: Re: Virus? March 14th 2009, 8:09 am

lol. okay everybody stop repeating the same advice. if this has been solved im going to lock the topic. its gone waayyyyy off topic.

Resident Artist From : Devon, England OS : Vista

You seem to be taking a long time to lock it tongue