Virus attack!

i somehow got a mAJOR virus while i was away.....
im using http://housecall.trendmicro.com/housecall/start_corp.asp
it usually works .... on my brothers computer it nearly took over, it installed programs , viruses , made us look at horribly made advertisements,when we disconnected the internet cable it tried to restart .... luckilly that computer sucks so bad that it failed to run the requested action and the virus was halted in its tracks
ive used 3 different virus scanners none have worked on cleaning 16 viruses had been dectected... = / seems to be trojans Do not use internet explorer. he was just google searching when this happpened " a pop up ad came up and he closed it... then his desktop turned into a webpage.... then i came home thought my bro did it for a joke or somthing and screwed around with it... i made the bground into google.. amazingly this nearly fixed the virus on my computer....

The virus makes your background into webpage. It locks all of your pref's and all sorts of stuff deletes favorites. this webpage uploads immense amounts of trojans and spyware. The spyware is easy to remove. the trojans are not. The quicker you move the better it helps .

WATCH OUT FOR INTERNET EXPLORER! all my brother did is go around google

Use firefox, its better

thx omega... i wish i had known that liek a min ago :wink:

im prolly gonna reformat cuz there isnt anything useful on this comp anyways

Methinks you might have a browser hijacker.

If you haven't already done so, get spybot search&destroy and
adaware SE. Update both. Reboot in safe mode, run them and clean off
everything they find. Also run any updated virus scanner and clean
everything you can find.

If the problems still persist you should try one of the numerous forums
where there are lot of people willing to help with getting rid of
spyware.

Then you might want to think about getting a software firewall too. The
WinXP firewall is fine, but can be circumvented easily (from what I
hear).

Edit: For some reason, AV packages think spyware are not viruses.

well ive pretty much by now cleared it... but all my cookies are gone = / and so is a lot of other stuff... and i still dont have a desktop ( i have a google search page :smile: ) im most likely going to reformat scince i wanted to do it anyways & had planned to do it this week anyways ... i guess im doing it early

If you think you have a virus, and scanners cannot remove it, boot in safe mode, then scan.

:wink: it was mainly spybots but there were about like 15 viruses thx ... i
deleted internet explorer to prevent family from killing their comp.
installed firefox !

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<DIV class=quotetitle>? quoting parakeet</DIV>
<DIV class=quotetext>WATCH OUT FOR INTERNET EXPLORER! all my brother did is go around google </DIV></DIV>
Sure he did :wink:

:wink: it was mainly spybots but there were about like 15 viruses thx ... i
deleted internet explorer to prevent family from killing their comp.
installed firefox !

You cannot get rid of IE . At least, not completely. Most of the
dangerous stuff still lies around waiting to be exploited because many
apps need the functionality of IE to work. Best you can do is to avoid
using it, and educate the users.

thx guys :wink: well i guess that prob is fixed YAY! i deleted the icons
from my desktop is what i meant = P so that no siblings would be
tempted to use it