Vista - Two Whole Days of BS

Downloaded it, I'm going to transfer it to my bad computer (for some reason I can't ever download any program, at least antivirus programs on my other computer, apparently since it uses wireless internet. However I am able to download pretty much everything else, even huge ass torrent files with it) and at first I thought it was just those programs that never downloaded, but no...avast, trojan remover (which expired and I can never get a new 30 day free trial even via uninstalling it then reinstalling, even though this somehow worked with the professional 30 day period version of avast), and other programs download nicely on this wired computer.

Wonder if anyone knows why trojan remover (one can google the name) can never not display the expiration message. Why can't we uninstall and download it again? Especially since there's a freaking way to renew it ALWAYS before the expiration date, so one could use it indefinitely. Whoever made the expiration on it must have not been thinking.


That would be great, except I can't imagine even going to Start > Acessories > Accessiblity > On Screen keyboard on the blue boot screen (time when boot scan is done) where I have to use the keyboard. Also it's not my empty vista laptop that has the infection but the PC running XP with all my stuff on it. Life is gay.

*Edit* thought is worth mentioning that my bro had a CD with a powerful antivirus program on it called Symantec and it apparently is the *full* version and he got it from his university, and it was just a folder I happened to be able to copy it right to my USB drive...(since my cd/dvd drive on my XP infected computer has not been working...since as long as I can remember) let's see what this baby can do.

OH which reminds me, can my cd drive not working be a result of a virus? It just does not read discs...my cd drive has not been working for a very long time, but I also started getting viruses since last year or before that. Can viruses screw up your CD/DVD DRIVE? Thanks.

You could probably lift those files up while using Knoppix and transfer them to another HD. The virus won't effect the Linux OS, then when you have reformatted C: you can install the OS and AV software, then scan your files

I was thinking of something similar to that. Transfer my valuable data (which I'm able to do) then format the hell out of my computer to get rid of it. I've got a lot of options, and I'm DEFINITELY getting something done today. I'm so pretty determined.

Good luck with it. I have been there/done that a couple of times myself. Didn't want the 'T' shirt.

Ken, if you can, burn all the 60Gig to disks or a pen drive thats big enough.

chances of those documents been infected are slim to be quite honest. creators of these viruses intend to cause system damage not files like you have.

i know its not the best thing to do but its worth a shot mate.

once u have all the data backed up. re install ure OS from scratch get the machine up and runnning again.

install a antivirus, id suggest AVG or NOD32

then all you have to do is stick the CD's in 1 by 1 and scan them with ure antivirus or what ever you want to check them with.

(this cant cause infection atall as your not opening the CD)

just right click the drive that has the CD in then scan with: pick ure scanner

i hope this helps.

P.S once you have the data on disk u cant loose it just open it to make sure its all there on the current system. this doesnt matter on the system atm as its allready infected =/ and is very doubtfull the virus will go for it.


edit: just noticed that u have no working CD drive so my option is out the window.

i have another though

go to here: www.skydrive.live.com

upload it all to there i think the limit on space is around 25 GB per Hotmail account

with this in mind Create as many as you need to upload all ure data to these servers run by MS and get scanned

Let me know how this goes

It says 50 MB size limit per file...the biggest file I have is over 2 gigs, lol.

Anyway I transported everything. Doubt anything is infected...then again I can scan those whenever with something.

I didnt see that well that sucks nvm then lol

well yeah, do you have your machine re built from scratch?

No...nothing has been done thus far, just was able to do some scans with some programs and they deleted...some things...some cookies, and other stuff, files I never knew existed in wierd folders I didn't know exist, thousands of them...in some directry on my computer. Didn't feel anything though. The only thing I noticed was that my bottom blue bar, where the start menu is, is back to normal. On the night of the infection in changed it to the classic-ass bar you see in safe mode, the angular gray one. That scared me, but somehow I got the blue XP one back, but I don't know the reason for this. The main problem is still on my PC, still disables (not all like before but most) startup items like my linksys adapter for instance, and some other things, and ADDED a new startup item (musicmatch jukebox) which I had disabled for years...retarded, right? You bet.

Yeah it definitely says 50 BM per file limit. I already transferred 40 gigs worth of data with my 16 g usb drive (had to use it several times obviously) so my computer can pretty much be formatted now...if my cd drive was working so I can re-install some programs like for my scanner, so that isn't a smart thing to do.

360 owner, huh? GT is Final Arcana. Add me.

Can you pull the hard drive and put it in another machine (or external hard drive case) and scan the drive from another machine?

When my notebook got too infected to do anything with, I just scanned/cleaned the drive from a known good desktop.. Trying to scan and clean a drive that you booted from may not let you actually delete the infected files..

-Matthew

Won't I have to open up my computer? I'm having a dude deal with it anyway, soon...