A virus?

Started by Zanacross April 4th, 2008 9:36 AM
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Zanacross

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I think I have a virus that my antivirus cant pick up.
What happens is the Rick rollin song plays at a random time in my internet browser. I have no idea when its going to happen.

My questions are:
Do you think this is a virus abd if it is, do you think its going to be deadly?
How I should get rid of it if my scanner doesn't pick it up?
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Seen April 11th, 2008
Posted April 11th, 2008
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go to start and reset your computer thats how i get rid of my viruses
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Gerri Shin

  

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it may not be a virus, it may just be spyware od adware, My suggestion would be to run any Anti- spyware/adware programs you have, then restart your system. If it still happens (assuming this is firefox doing this) uninstall/reinstall firefox. If it's IE, I'm out of answers, I never use it.
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Of all the malware that you could have been infected with (assuming that's what it is), that's actually quite funny*. Nonetheless, have you made sure that your antivirus/anti-everything else programs are all up to date? Otherwise they might not be able to pick this up.

*Sorry, not helpful at all. *slaps own wrist*.

Gerri Shin

  

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you don't have to lose all of your plug-ins, themes, an bookmarks. you can easily export you bookmarks and just go into your them/plug-in manager and create a list in notepad of all of the items you use and then you should be able to find them extremely easily when you reinstall
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Ok most new viruses stop anti-viruses form updating so then it can't find the new virus.

Also the best thing that finds viruses that are hiding in your computer is Nanoscan Heres a link
nanoscan.com

Do the test.
Once done do total scan
full scan Aprox.1hour

It will show the viruses and where they are plus what they are all free of charge(at the end).

I did this when my computer had a virus and it helped alot.


DO NOT SWITCH YOUR COMPUTER OFF UNTIL YOU ARE INTIRELY SURE THE VIRUS HAS GONE.
Because the computer may not start up and you may have to wipe(delete everything on hard drive)your computer

Hope this helps!
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fluffy, she already turned her PC off and then on.

You could also try rebooting in safe mode and then scanning with Norton.
You might have to do a system restore if rebooting in safe mode, then scanning doesn't work.
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