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Started by Foreman72, February 16, 2009, 09:35:22 PM

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Ponch ®

#25
February 17, 2009, 02:33:40 PM
You know, I haven't had a problem with trojan viruses or spyware/adware since I switched over to Firefox 4-5 years ago. Not that's entirely immune to those things, but with a little common sense you shouldn't have any problems.
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BrianShaughnessy

#26
February 17, 2009, 02:44:08 PM
A coworker brought in his daughter in laws box that got some crap called sysguard loaded.  It hijacks IE.
Of course, no restore points or any antivirus was ever used.
So far it's resistant to the common fixes.   Can get onto the web using firefox but that's not good for everything.    It resists all attempts to run any windows updates by hijacking the browser over to some spam junk. 

I like my old IBM / Lenovo rescue and recovery....   although it eats a lot of hard drive.   I can restore to the last back up with 1 button.
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Troy

#27
February 17, 2009, 02:46:41 PM
Quote from: Ponch ® on February 17, 2009, 02:33:40 PM
You know, I haven't had a problem with trojan viruses or spyware/adware since I switched over to Firefox 4-5 years ago. Not that's entirely immune to those things, but with a little common sense you shouldn't have any problems.
Very true. The other two biggies are: "freeware" (including screen savers, toolbars, etc.) and stuff from file sharing sites without checking to see what it really is.

Troy
Sarcasm detector, that's a real good invention.

Mean 318

#28
February 17, 2009, 06:38:51 PM
I got one a few months ago, It took out my spy, adaware, and killed both explorer and fox, I tried all sotrs of stuff and in the end I did a kill and re build on it! You will spend more time working at it and you may never get it, IMO start over!

Forza

#29
February 18, 2009, 10:35:29 AM
Quote from: Troy on February 17, 2009, 02:46:41 PM
Quote from: Ponch ® on February 17, 2009, 02:33:40 PM
You know, I haven't had a problem with trojan viruses or spyware/adware since I switched over to Firefox 4-5 years ago. Not that's entirely immune to those things, but with a little common sense you shouldn't have any problems.
Very true. The other two biggies are: "freeware" (including screen savers, toolbars, etc.) and stuff from file sharing sites without checking to see what it really is.

Troy


I've been trying to stress that to my mom but she never listens. She goes and downloads a crap load of freeware toolbars, smiley programs for emails, and other useless junk and then whines to me when her laptop runs like crap. It runs like crap because its bloated with random crap and viruses mom!

Foreman72

#30
February 18, 2009, 04:41:45 PM
well all its beyond my abilities 2 fix...going 2 a family friend who does this for a living...those guys will never b outta job...yeah so it looks like things will be gotten back on their feet...fingers crossed...every stich of my info/research/plans/pdf catologs/ect for the charger is on there...not 2 mention 10G of tunes...man...how relient are we on this mass of electricity metal and scilicon.. :-[ :-[
Eric "Foreman"

Previous: 1972 Dodge Charger
Current: 2002 Volvo S60

"The steps of a man are ordered by the LORD, and He delights in his way. Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down; For the LORD upholds him with His hand.
=Psalm 37:23-24=
"But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven..."
=Matthew 6:19-21=
:pat

captnsim

#31
February 18, 2009, 04:44:32 PM
That sucks...

Foreman72

#32
February 18, 2009, 04:45:50 PM
Quote from: captnsim on February 18, 2009, 04:44:32 PM
That sucks...

indeed...but all of those docs and such (i was assured) would be backed up externally before anything happend...still i'm waking on a tightrope...moral of the story...get an external back up drive
Eric "Foreman"

Previous: 1972 Dodge Charger
Current: 2002 Volvo S60

"The steps of a man are ordered by the LORD, and He delights in his way. Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down; For the LORD upholds him with His hand.
=Psalm 37:23-24=
"But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven..."
=Matthew 6:19-21=
:pat

captnsim

#33
February 18, 2009, 04:50:06 PM
Oh yeah...I learned that after my first blue screen of death.

FLG

#34
February 18, 2009, 04:51:18 PM
Wish i was local to you. Ive been doing computer repair for years now and have my own business i run out of my house.

Foreman72

#35
February 18, 2009, 04:52:12 PM
that woulda been nice...
Eric "Foreman"

Previous: 1972 Dodge Charger
Current: 2002 Volvo S60

"The steps of a man are ordered by the LORD, and He delights in his way. Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down; For the LORD upholds him with His hand.
=Psalm 37:23-24=
"But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven..."
=Matthew 6:19-21=
:pat

4cruzin

#36
February 18, 2009, 05:29:43 PM
Sorry I didn't see this sooner . . . I would of helped out without doing a restore.   :shruggy:
Tomorrow is promised to NOBODY . . . .

2Gunz

#37
February 20, 2009, 04:08:50 AM

I highly recommend these things to keep this from happening again.....


Firefox - http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/

Web browser

    *Get this add-on for it*   http://www.mywot.com/
      And this one (might be a bit to proactive for must.... but great anyway)  http://noscript.net/


Spybot -  http://www.safer-networking.org/en/home/index.html 

Blocks KNOWN trouble files before they happen


PeerGuardian2 - http://phoenixlabs.org/

Blocks KNOWN intrusive IP addresses


Nod32 - http://www.eset.com/

IMHO easily the best anti-virus, light CPU usage and up to date




Foreman72

#38
February 20, 2009, 08:40:42 AM
thanks for those man...yeah i use fireox but i'll pick up that add-on...should be getting it back fully restored this weekend...good news boys...all docs/pics/tunes/ect are safe...
Eric "Foreman"

Previous: 1972 Dodge Charger
Current: 2002 Volvo S60

"The steps of a man are ordered by the LORD, and He delights in his way. Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down; For the LORD upholds him with His hand.
=Psalm 37:23-24=
"But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven..."
=Matthew 6:19-21=
:pat

lisiecki1

#39
February 20, 2009, 10:49:02 AM
spybot search and destroy FTW!
Remember the average response time to a 911 call is over 4 minutes.

The average response time of a 357 magnum is 1400 FPS.

http://www.dodgecharger.com/forum/index.php/topic,52527.0.html

dodgecharger-fan

#40
February 20, 2009, 05:16:07 PM
www.bleepingcomputer.com

The folks there are really good, but you have to follow their instructions to the T. It's not hard to do, though. The instructions are very thorough and if there's something you can't do for some reason (like an online scan - but you can't access the Internet), they can work around it.

Foreman72

#41
February 22, 2009, 06:22:34 PM
first post from fully restored computer...now its just getting all my files & crap in order...and making sure this never happens again...
Eric "Foreman"

Previous: 1972 Dodge Charger
Current: 2002 Volvo S60

"The steps of a man are ordered by the LORD, and He delights in his way. Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down; For the LORD upholds him with His hand.
=Psalm 37:23-24=
"But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven..."
=Matthew 6:19-21=
:pat

A383Wing

#42
February 22, 2009, 06:27:54 PM
:2thumbs:

Take yer time...I just installed a 250gb hardrive in my laptop....had to save everything and transfer over...also had to reload all my extras
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