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    Hello everyone. Haven't really been that active. But anywho I think that I have a ton of virus's because everytime I try to open up firefox. This vista secruity shit pops up and says that firefox is invested with a trojan. Then it scans my machine and says I have like 35 virus's and to buy their program to remove them. And stuff like this keeps on poping up.




    So I'm running a McAfee scan and so far it says I have nothing.

    But before I take a loss and just reformat:

    To reformat do I need the discs?
    Do I just keep on pressing F2 on bootup?

    Thanks guys

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    Wipe computer. Reinstall OS/Win7/Ubu. Or do whatever you want, go to whatever websites you want, and then on April 29th, download 10.04 and install that. :3

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    Do I need the discs to re install vista?

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    yes, you need disks.

    Make sure your virus scanner is up to date. Some of these viruses can simply be un-installed via the control panel. I would think that your main virus is the one trying to make you buy something, all the "viruses" that it says you have you probably don't, it's just trying to scare you into buying it.
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    You're owned. Only solution is to reformat and reinstall.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Harry View Post
    You're owned. Only solution is to reformat and reinstall.


    I had a similar one on XP and MalwareBytes removed it on the first scan.

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    Install avast antivirus, it has a free edition. And when you install make it do startup checks, then you will get rid of it.
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    I had this problem before, got it a few years ago. Is the program called Spyfalcon or something? If so, there are heaps of tuts on how to remove it.

    I remember it would pop up asking me to install their program because "threats have been found" and i would go into control panel and remove it and it would pop up. But yea as I said there are some tuts to remove it. All I had to do was kill 2 processes, delete some files and run a scan then it was gone forever.

    What you can do is hop onto a different machine, download "Spybot search and destroy", (install + run update) then run a scan. It should remove it.
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    Had it recently. Download Pc doctor. Look for a crack for it if you dont want to buy it. It WILL remove it completely. There is no reason to reformat as the virus will keep coming back.
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    I can help you get rid of that, just get TeamViewer.

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    Alright, well I'm currently running a McAfee scan and an avast! scan. So I guess we'll see where this takes me.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sandstorm View Post


    I had a similar one on XP and MalwareBytes removed it on the first scan.

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    Had a friend who had the same problem. Exact same software too. You probably don't have any viruses, they're just trying to urge you to buy it.
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    ...i had faulty ram....they told me to format my hard drive...im like HOW TO F*** IS THAT GONNA HELP MY F***ING RAM??? YOU STUPID IDIOT!! then i hung up...lol

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    Try smitfraudfix, it blasts most of these annoying viri.
    I made a new script, check it out!.

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    After intentionally installing viruses, I have to filter through many different types of anti virus programs. Here is a list of free ones (or free/trial version ones you can try out).

    adaware
    asquared anti malware
    avenger2
    avg-antivirus
    combofix
    malewarebytes
    rvaxo
    spybot-sd
    spyware blaster
    spyware terminator
    super anti spyware
    swat it

    I know some of them may look sketchy... but they have all been helpful to me.

    I hope you get you computer cleaned up ;P . The best of luck to ya.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Sandstorm View Post


    I had a similar one on XP and MalwareBytes removed it on the first scan.

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    Who are you gonna trust, MalwareBytes, or the people who made your OS?
    http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/l.../cc512587.aspx

    You can't clean a compromised system by patching it.

    You can't clean a compromised system by removing the back doors.

    You can't clean a compromised system by using some "vulnerability remover."

    You can't clean a compromised system by using a virus scanner.

    You can't clean a compromised system by reinstalling the operating system over the existing installation.

    You can't trust any data copied from a compromised system.

    You can't trust the event logs on a compromised system.

    You may not be able to trust your latest backup.

    The only way to clean a compromised system is to flatten and rebuild.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Harry View Post
    Who are you gonna trust, MalwareBytes, or the people who made your OS?
    That is one person, not "the people who made your OS."

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    Quote Originally Posted by bullzeye95 View Post
    That is one person, not "the people who made your OS."
    They wouldn't publish it on their Technet site if they didn't all agree on it.


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    Who cares about it Harry.

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    Quote Originally Posted by i luffs yeww View Post
    Wipe computer. Reinstall OS/Win7/Ubu. Or do whatever you want, go to whatever websites you want, and then on April 29th, download 10.04 and install that. :3
    This>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Don't do it
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    Why do I even try these things? I just shit my pants over this god damn tutorial. Fuck, that's uncleanable. I can't even wash that out because there's so much of my shit it will just stain everything else. If I put it in the washing machine, I'm sure to stain the sides.

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    Why not? :<

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    Malwarebytes is all about removing and preventing infections on MS OSes. That is one part of what MS is about. MBAM is not the be all and end all, but it is effective on many occasions, and gets a lot of what others miss.

    What Jesper was saying in that quote applies more to corporate situations. For a home user rogueware like this, the following quote from Jesper applies more:
    MS Antispyware [another rogueware] is not about being hard to remove.
    http://msinfluentials.com/blogs/jesp...r-malware.aspx

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