Author Topic: Virus? (Read 275 times)

jetb123 · « **on:** May 28, 2005, 09:13:38 PM »

Well my friend on my contact list suddenly started a convo with me. Saying stuff like "You retard!" over and over and over. Then giving me a link. It looked like a imageshack link, but kinda diffrent. So I clicked it and brought me to nothing. My friend never recalls doing this. Maybe he was drunk or something, but could this be a virus? If so whats the best Free Virus protecter I could get for removement.

Roscoroo · « **Reply #1 on:** May 28, 2005, 09:24:38 PM »

1st you cant install an av program on an infected pc cleanly .. most of the time it will error out ... unless you can run it in safe mode .

Trend micro /symantec / house call/ and most of the others have online av scanners that kinda work . but not always .

if you have msn messenger i'll try to walk you thru it ... (you need alot of paitence for this) Roscoroo@hotmail.com (note: i dont have xp here at home so i cant admin control ur pc and do it ) i hate that anyway .

Ghosth · « **Reply #2 on:** May 29, 2005, 06:09:44 AM »

AVG free edition virus scanner.
http://free.grisoft.com/freeweb.php/doc/2/

But he's right that you may have problems installing it into a corrupt system.

I've had fairly good luck with housecall myself.

If your running XP your options are limited.

If your running 98SE you could always download a dos based scanner, burn it to a CD, boot with your 98startup disk. Do a dos scan. Then install AVG, and scan again.

Last, I've had Ad-aware SE picking up things that others have missed lately.

So you might want to try that first.

jetb123 · « **Reply #3 on:** May 29, 2005, 09:23:09 AM »

Rosc walked me threw it i had a nasty bug. All fine now, thanks rosc!

Siaf__csf · « **Reply #4 on:** May 30, 2005, 12:49:49 PM »

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Well my friend on my contact list suddenly started a convo with me. Saying stuff like "You retard!" over and over and over.

I knew my wife was infected.