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Immortal spyware(virus?)
well to put it simply, i've formatted 10 times in 8 days, it seemed gone on the 10th format, and all of a sudden its back, i cant even get into windows. i'm running Knoppix(linix on a DVD^^) JUST so i can get on here
alright...system specs first
NVidia nForce 4 Ultra motherboard
AMD athlon 64 3500+ Processor
Nvidia 7800 GT OC video card(does that even really matter o.o?)
and my partitions are a liiiitle messed up
drive C: is a 140GB partition on HDD1 i use only for data storage(wont let me changet he drive letter)
drive D: is a second hard drive, 300GB, also data
(add in 2 DVD drives here)
drive G: is my root drive, a 13GB partition on HDD1, windows is there
XP Pro...dunno what else any of you would need to know
now the problem as best i can recall
about a week ago i was doing nothing out of the ordinary
all of a sudden i blue screen
windows comes back up...
little red circle with a white X in it. pop up balloon on it says somethign along the lines of "You are infected!
windows has detected a spyware infection
(5 lines of bull about what spyware is to make it look official)
click here to protect against spyware"
well, my finger slipped in an attempt to try to just close it through the icon and i clicked on it
explorer popped up(i use firefox) -froze after i tried to close it through task manager
computer locked up. reset button
THIS time, same process. only i notice a new icon, i dont remember the name but its one of those automatic form fillers(like gator, however odl that is...but not gator)
this time, without me even clicking on it, FIREFOX opens up to spywaredoctor or something, and opens up 2 more tabs for the same thing(a different "anti"-spyware program)
i run ad-aware and spybot. ad-aware got at LEAST 400 objects, spybot got a nice 3 digit number as well.
both programs wanted a restart to run because they couldnt delete running programs(i have pictures of my task manager, and soem of the popups, i'll post those later, when i'm on a windows machine)
they got their restarts. both programs said...they had to reboot cuz they couldnt delete a runing program. so whatever this is(and it seems like a combination of several spyware apps) just plain cant be deleted by common means.
i also noticed it planted about 30-40 different files on my C: drive, and made its own windows/program files/spywaredoctor installation folder.
so i formatted
quick format(at this point i didnt know the difference between quick and full, only knew quick was quicker, and it was 1245AM. i wanted to get to bed)
10 minutes after my network driveers are up, i'm installing aim, firefox blah blah
-bluescreen
same exact **** happened
i deleted the junk in C:
i REINSTALLED WINDOWS
IT CAME BACK
formatted again(didnt wanna deal with that stuff again, and it was lockign up my system faster now)
this time i install the NVidia firewall, came neatly wiht my motherboard drivers. things were going fine for about 20 minutes, i had a whole HALF my apps installed(these programs by the way are all trusted, never done anyhtign bad before)
"SCVHost is trying to access the network" i was installing aim, and it said this needs to access the interent to intall SOME programs, so i allow it
2 system crashes later(didnt even get into windows, it just blue screened this time)
format, install firewall, DONT allow scvhost to access the network AT ALL
that little white on red X ison appears in the taskbar anyway. it's been 3 formats now. i have
memorized my windows CD key. it's STILL THERE. same stuff that happened before proceeds to happen yet again.
i'm SICK of this ****. I install Ubuntu Linux.
for some reason, it wont getpast the login screen. whether its an uncompatible monitor or the OS;s fault, i dontknow.
format, reinstall windows
thats it for the night. its like 6AM at this point(friggin long-ass linux install)
windows installed, firewall installed, no spyware yet.
then, at like 11AM that same day, i wake up(i have a report due^^)
spend about a half hour workign on it.
IT
COMES
BACK
i'll post more later, with screenshots. i gotta get to class
alright...system specs first
NVidia nForce 4 Ultra motherboard
AMD athlon 64 3500+ Processor
Nvidia 7800 GT OC video card(does that even really matter o.o?)
and my partitions are a liiiitle messed up
drive C: is a 140GB partition on HDD1 i use only for data storage(wont let me changet he drive letter)
drive D: is a second hard drive, 300GB, also data
(add in 2 DVD drives here)
drive G: is my root drive, a 13GB partition on HDD1, windows is there
XP Pro...dunno what else any of you would need to know
now the problem as best i can recall
about a week ago i was doing nothing out of the ordinary
all of a sudden i blue screen
windows comes back up...
little red circle with a white X in it. pop up balloon on it says somethign along the lines of "You are infected!
windows has detected a spyware infection
(5 lines of bull about what spyware is to make it look official)
click here to protect against spyware"
well, my finger slipped in an attempt to try to just close it through the icon and i clicked on it
explorer popped up(i use firefox) -froze after i tried to close it through task manager
computer locked up. reset button
THIS time, same process. only i notice a new icon, i dont remember the name but its one of those automatic form fillers(like gator, however odl that is...but not gator)
this time, without me even clicking on it, FIREFOX opens up to spywaredoctor or something, and opens up 2 more tabs for the same thing(a different "anti"-spyware program)
i run ad-aware and spybot. ad-aware got at LEAST 400 objects, spybot got a nice 3 digit number as well.
both programs wanted a restart to run because they couldnt delete running programs(i have pictures of my task manager, and soem of the popups, i'll post those later, when i'm on a windows machine)
they got their restarts. both programs said...they had to reboot cuz they couldnt delete a runing program. so whatever this is(and it seems like a combination of several spyware apps) just plain cant be deleted by common means.
i also noticed it planted about 30-40 different files on my C: drive, and made its own windows/program files/spywaredoctor installation folder.
so i formatted
quick format(at this point i didnt know the difference between quick and full, only knew quick was quicker, and it was 1245AM. i wanted to get to bed)
10 minutes after my network driveers are up, i'm installing aim, firefox blah blah
-bluescreen
same exact **** happened
i deleted the junk in C:
i REINSTALLED WINDOWS
IT CAME BACK
formatted again(didnt wanna deal with that stuff again, and it was lockign up my system faster now)
this time i install the NVidia firewall, came neatly wiht my motherboard drivers. things were going fine for about 20 minutes, i had a whole HALF my apps installed(these programs by the way are all trusted, never done anyhtign bad before)
"SCVHost is trying to access the network" i was installing aim, and it said this needs to access the interent to intall SOME programs, so i allow it
2 system crashes later(didnt even get into windows, it just blue screened this time)
format, install firewall, DONT allow scvhost to access the network AT ALL
that little white on red X ison appears in the taskbar anyway. it's been 3 formats now. i have
memorized my windows CD key. it's STILL THERE. same stuff that happened before proceeds to happen yet again.
i'm SICK of this ****. I install Ubuntu Linux.
for some reason, it wont getpast the login screen. whether its an uncompatible monitor or the OS;s fault, i dontknow.
format, reinstall windows
thats it for the night. its like 6AM at this point(friggin long-ass linux install)
windows installed, firewall installed, no spyware yet.
then, at like 11AM that same day, i wake up(i have a report due^^)
spend about a half hour workign on it.
IT
COMES
BACK
i'll post more later, with screenshots. i gotta get to class
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Have you followed the step by step instructions?
http://www.short-media.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=57
and start with this one http://www.short-media.com/forum/showthread.php?t=43902
Seriously, this **** can drive you crazy.