Got a nasty virus...

Jonny69 · 19-07-2008, 12:40

I suppose it's my fault for not having AV or AS installed but I finally managed to pick up a computer virus last night. Ironically it wasn't me that got it, even with all my dodgy surfing, it was her using Facebook in IE. So I reckon it must have been a dodgy app or advert that did that.

Nasty one it was, came up as a red X in the system try and pretended to be Windows Security Center. I have all that stuff disabled so I knew it wasn't legit. Couldn't install AVG and coudn't run HijackThis or Spybot, it didn't show in Task Manager, msconfig or the obvious places in regedit so I was kinda stuck. It's been too long since I last hunted down virii and it looks like they have got a bit trickier to spot

Ended up reinstalling one of my disk images, only problem is it was from 2006 so it's taken a bit of setting up again and I've lost all my bookmarks in Firefox, should be ok, I'll take a copy from work and I'll be back to normal.

Haven't lost any data because I keep it on another partition for exactly this reason.

Probably about time I took another disk image I think. Moral of the story is keep your AV installed and up to date!

19-07-2008, 12:40	#1
Jonny69 Noob Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Socialist Republik of Kent Posts: 5,032	Got a nasty virus... I suppose it's my fault for not having AV or AS installed but I finally managed to pick up a computer virus last night. Ironically it wasn't me that got it, even with all my dodgy surfing, it was her using Facebook in IE. So I reckon it must have been a dodgy app or advert that did that. Nasty one it was, came up as a red X in the system try and pretended to be Windows Security Center. I have all that stuff disabled so I knew it wasn't legit. Couldn't install AVG and coudn't run HijackThis or Spybot, it didn't show in Task Manager, msconfig or the obvious places in regedit so I was kinda stuck. It's been too long since I last hunted down virii and it looks like they have got a bit trickier to spot Ended up reinstalling one of my disk images, only problem is it was from 2006 so it's taken a bit of setting up again and I've lost all my bookmarks in Firefox, should be ok, I'll take a copy from work and I'll be back to normal. Haven't lost any data because I keep it on another partition for exactly this reason. Probably about time I took another disk image I think. Moral of the story is keep your AV installed and up to date! __________________