Author Topic: Viruses & How To Remove Them (Read 61725 times)

smurf · « **Reply #60 on:** August 20, 2012, 11:32:40 AM »

My brother just forwarded me a virus like email that he keeps getting, allegedly from me.thing is although it uses my name it's not coming from my email address also no one else complained to me.
I assume this means that it's more likely an issue on his end not mine

DH Data Recovery · « **Reply #61 on:** August 20, 2012, 11:54:27 AM »

Change your password to your email account - and just in case he can change his as well.

smurf · « **Reply #62 on:** August 20, 2012, 12:05:37 PM »

Quote from: DH Data Recovery on August 20, 2012, 11:54:27 AM

Change your password to your email account - and just in case he can change his as well.

But thats the thing, the emails arent coming from my email account, they just use my name

smart brit · « **Reply #63 on:** September 12, 2012, 08:30:16 PM »

On my computer it comes up a message from avira av that autorun inf was blocked it keeps coming on this message.
I did the cc cleaner but still it seems there are some bugs in there

DH Data Recovery · « **Reply #64 on:** September 12, 2012, 08:36:54 PM »

If all you get is the message that it was blocked with no error, that just means you have an external drive or usb connected. It blocks the autorun in order to minimize the risk of an infected autorun file on usb

smart brit · « **Reply #65 on:** September 12, 2012, 08:54:10 PM »

Thanks but there is nothing connected to this computer

DH Data Recovery · « **Reply #66 on:** September 12, 2012, 09:11:01 PM »

Do you have more than one partition in windows?

smart brit · « **Reply #67 on:** September 12, 2012, 10:15:51 PM »

Quote from: DH Data Recovery on September 12, 2012, 09:11:01 PM

Do you have more than one partition in windows?

I'm sorry for the ignorance but i have no clue what that is

DH Data Recovery · « **Reply #68 on:** September 12, 2012, 10:44:22 PM »

do you have mor ethan one drive letter in my computer (or "computer")

SuperFlyer · « **Reply #69 on:** September 13, 2012, 05:00:48 AM »

An autorun on a non-master-partition?

Never heard of it, especially since we are talking about a virtual one (notebook won't have two harddisks).

SuperFlyer · « **Reply #70 on:** September 13, 2012, 05:04:31 AM »

About which AV to use: Kaspersky is the best but not made for the unitiated.

People mention Avast, but I'm happy with AVG, as its a good all round program, and not too heavy.

As mentioned earlier, I believe nortons last decent AV dates back to 2007, and after that, it just clogged up the pc, with no particularly good protection.

L'Chaim · « **Reply #71 on:** September 13, 2012, 06:04:44 AM »

And McAfee?

SuperFlyer · « **Reply #72 on:** September 13, 2012, 06:08:30 AM »

The last versions I used I found bothersome, especially the way they try to push in more products for you to buy.

DH Data Recovery · « **Reply #73 on:** September 13, 2012, 10:56:13 AM »

Quote from: SuperFlyer on September 13, 2012, 05:00:48 AM

An autorun on a non-master-partition?

Never heard of it, especially since we are talking about a virtual one (notebook won't have two harddisks).

Most laptops and computers today come with a second recovery partition. Avira sometimes picks up the 2nd drive letter and just blocks the drive from autorun - even if it doesn't have one.

smart brit · « **Reply #74 on:** September 14, 2012, 05:46:45 PM »

Quote from: DH Data Recovery on September 12, 2012, 10:44:22 PM

do you have mor ethan one drive letter in my computer (or "computer")

i have 3 hard disk drivers there

MarkS · « **Reply #75 on:** November 22, 2012, 04:29:03 PM »

LifeHacker.com How to Get Rid of a Virus (Even When Your Computer Won’t Boot)

Any thoughts on this?

DH Data Recovery · « **Reply #76 on:** November 22, 2012, 05:51:48 PM »

I used to use boot cds to remove viruses ages ago - but these days with win 7 system restore it makes viruses really simple to remove!

DanH · « **Reply #77 on:** November 22, 2012, 07:24:16 PM »

Quote from: MarkS on November 22, 2012, 04:29:03 PM

LifeHacker.com How to Get Rid of a Virus (Even When Your Computer Won’t Boot)

Any thoughts on this?

Its slow. F-Secure has one as well. IIRC there are others too. IIRC there's also a bootcd called Hirens Boot CD.

See:
http://www.f-secure.com/en/web/labs_global/removal-tools/-/carousel/view/142

You may also just boot linux live and run clamav

DH Data Recovery · « **Reply #78 on:** November 22, 2012, 08:33:29 PM »

Hirens boot cd isn't the same thing. Geeksquad has a cd that boots into its own utility and runs a combination of virus removal tools - takes about 4hrs or so, but like I said in windows 7 these are all irrelevant - all you need is system restore + combofix/malwarebytes and 99% of the time your ok

elikay · « **Reply #79 on:** November 22, 2012, 09:39:16 PM »

Quote from: DH Data Recovery on November 22, 2012, 08:33:29 PM

Hirens boot cd isn't the same thing. Geeksquad has a cd that boots into its own utility and runs a combination of virus removal tools - takes about 4hrs or so, but like I said in windows 7 these are all irrelevant - all you need is system restore + combofix/malwarebytes and 99% of the time your ok

I'm not understanding, hasn't restore been around since vista?

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