figured i'd put out a post today on what's going on with me.. about 2 weeks ago, maybe less or more lol, lebisol and i were talking on bugs and viruses, i had caught a trojan, and thought i got rid of it.. I got it thru the yahoo spam box, by opening up what i thought wasnt spam. go figure. i remember when i did it, because my whole screen blinked when i did that.. and did when the trojan vundo poped up after me thinking i got it again..
anyway, i have tried every thing that I know of, and all the links that I have put out, thank goodness, most arent mine, or if they are, it's by sticking other links from rs into my rs without dling them on my laptop.. just to let everyone know..
i use symantec corporate for firewall and anitvirus..(that thing lol has been going off till i think im used to seeing it more than web pages!) and i use spybot, and my host recommended avg and online trend scanner.. i couldnt get to the online scanner at all.. so i got a brillent idea and found the trend antivirus.. (think that is what got the marjority?? not too sure) but the keygen isnt working right or i would release that out to you guys..
the bad thing is, I decided a month ago, I would participate in the Christmas theme from SMF/TP, and tried to make a theme lol.. i did it tho, however with the virus poping up like popcorn.. one minuet its gone the next it's back, and locking up everything i had, well, things got screwy.. i normally do not ever worry about viruses or trojans, nothing.. but now lol.. it's making me want to close out my acct with yahoo, even tho im bug free now.. trend online says so, avg, symantec (thought I locked that up last night lol it is working!!), spybot, all says i am clean..
and now my burner is gone, it died last night, will i tried to redo my os and i need a new one, or a dvd burner (it was just a cd burner) to get all my stuff back again, i just cant afford to get one till the 1st.. and all the programs and stuff on my laptop, lol well lets just say i have 81% free space on here.. so the only thing I can do right now is spam the forums i frequent, and believe that i am going to post this everywhere i am at, zo that everyone will understand how very important it is to leave spam mail alone!!!! :knuppel2:
..We gotcha smoky.. :)
Always have the computer in safe mode when you run the spybot softwares and when it rem,oves it nothing will disturbe other softwares installed.
When you have normal windows loaded and run the spam removal softwares they will never be removed even if the spam removal tool tell they are fixed.
So safemode and then run the tools, and you will probably be clean after that.
And dont use just one removal software, run several times with diffrent ones as they are updated and built diffrently.
I use spy bot search and destroy and mebroot spysweeper and they always clean everything if i have spam or trojans.
Spybot search and destroy is free, webroot is paied, but these two remove everything that can damage the windows installed.
Removing spyware...agh the fun times. Got to love the users.
First, Sym. Corp is crap and it has been for years...including the apps they buy out. Tred micro is much better choice.
Safe mode -per G6 - is a must but it will NOT remove ALL of your spyware. Removing spyware is a waste of time & your machine will never be clean regardless of what cleanup utlitites report. Screen flashing is sometime "normal" for laptops beacuse of the heat factor and knowing what apps you run that would not worry me too much.
You drive may* not be fried but simply your drivers may be infected etc. not sure.
Best is to:
- backup your drive
- reformat your machine and put aside a partition for your backup (10 GB to be safe)
- install clean OS and patch it up (on main parition)
- install ALL of your applications
- get drive imaging software such as Acronis
- make an image/backup on that 10 GB partition you put aside
- enable winXP system restore
now you are set...if anything happens to your machine your backup software (Acronis) will allow you to interroupt the boot sequence and compleatly restore your main C parition.
you are looking into 3-4 hrs worth of work.
If clean install is not an option then PM me....
Sorry to hear this.
thanks guys.. and no lebisol, the burner is actually beeping when there is a cd in it and it sounds like it is scratching something.. or grinding and cant move, does it that makes any sense?? and i had a hard time removing my pix, notes and stuff.. i must have gone thru 30 cds, thinking maybe i got a bad batch of discs, but it is the drive.. i couldnt even re install my os.. i do have acronis, and when i can get a new drive installed, will be much better..
the thing i was really trying to point out, is if you have spam mail, be very careful on opening it.. make sure that you have it scanned before hand.. and lol i miss my burner!!! (not to mention, everything i have for my themes are on one of my cd's and i cant get to it) ;)
yeah spam is nasty...
cd room sounds like :( look for your hardware on http://www.pricewatch.com/
also get the usb external harddrive..forget backups on cds...well anyhow, not really a tp subject.
Good luck Smoky!
lol lebisol yeps.. cant get ahold of the guy that sold this laptop to me yet.. but i left a message.. i just wanted to let everyone know what is going on with me.. im not very active here, lol and lately i have been talking a mile a minuet!! i cant even play with my themes cuz i have nothing in this thing :2funny: but anyways, will be back up and running soon.. i miss playing with my tp :'( im learning soo much, but im stuck like chuck for now.. and wanted to let everyone know.. :-\
Sorry to hear that Smoky.
Quote from: Smoky on November 28, 2007, 04:36:39 PM
i normally do not ever worry about viruses or trojans, nothing.. but now lol..
It's like I'm reading my own words ::)
The "It will never happen to me" attitude didn't help me much few weeks ago. I got the msn virus backdoor.
Someone I was talking with on messenger sent me a zip file saying "I think I never sent you my pic. Here I am". I usually chat with English speakers on msn so I had no doubt that it was my Irish friend sending that message. I downloaded the file and in the next moment I was logged out of msn. I logged in back and all my friends that were online at that moment asked me why I was acting so silly. They all got a message from the cloned evil me with that zip file attached and something like "I saw your pics last night. Hope your dad won't see them", "look.. I have new pics. Don't I look dumb ?" :o Someone even said to me :"What's going on... you're not like that. Plus ... I saw your pics remember ?" :2funny:
I removed the downloaded file and AVG didn't find anything wrong. I logged in back on msn and everything seemed to be fine.
Next day everything went crazy again. With the antivirus claiming to scan a "clean system" and all my friends claiming to get silly messages from me again I took a look in my Message History and I found out where exactly the "packed" virus was. I removed it but few moments later the virus was back (2 infected zip files this time). MSN virus removal tool didn't work out for me.
What I did was to uninstall my antivirus, install another antivirus, run Win in safe mode, manually remove the infected files (the ones that my new antivirus could only block in quarantine but couldn't remove).
After that episode I tested several antivirus softwares. In a few weeks I ended up buying the full security package from the original "savior" (license to use up to 3 PCs - my sister's PC is now safe too, even though her PC still "owns" 2 trojan viruses and 1 trojan spyware in quarantine - all found soon after I removed the antivirus she was initially using).
I learnt my lesson .. I hope. :P
btw .. Hi there. Hope you guys understand my Romenglish :)
and Smoky .. Gosh you're everywhere !!! :up:
lol Relyana, yes your english is perfect.. very nice, and horrible story.. thank you very much, and i am sure others will appreciate the info here, for just in case.. and yes, i earn my name ;) poof!!! :2funny:
When you get a Mac as i did everyone tells you the 1st think you Can do is just throw away all your Anti-Virues software
linux is like that too.. very rarely does linux get them...
mac are cool...I wish there were more freware apps for them.
it is M$ world though
but what's the fun if ur not forced to format every so often :P
:2funny: :2funny: true lebisol.. and it's been over 6 months since i had to re format woohoo!! :D
i must have done something right up till now :o ;)
Quotemac are cool...I wish there were more freware apps for them.
Actually there are just as many free softwares for MAC as for PC ( usable softwares).
I have been using mac for over 15 years now so i know the jungle of sites and urls to find them, if you dont believe me, ask Crip as i have given him some great urls to softwares he missed and couldent find.
Mac is safer, but it's not bullitproof, there are trojans and virus that really make a mess of a MAC just like a PC, but MAC have the best restore function ever, so it's more or less just to reeboot to the last working point and everything is back to the sec before the virus or threat hit it.
id like to get a better laptop.. but im not too sure on the mac's, no offense to all mac users.. ;) but i would like linux to try out.. as most severs use some form of it.. it would be a change from mircosoft, that's for sure :D
If you want to try Linux, you can google on UBUNTU and check it out.
I have seen it in the works and i must say that it seem to be working great and pretty much like a windows enviroment.
IchBin knows a great deal of linux to, so im sure he can help you with tips on what to use and how to.
(remember this is tinyportal support though, not linux ;) )
I you have never tried Linux before, here is a good way to try it out, http://www.frozentech.com/content/livecd.php this is a list of boot CD's you can try out, all you do is put it on a cd and you dont have to load anything on your pc
lol yep G6, i know.. i have a few linux people on my site.. the differences in the bugs and what not just really amaze me and for the fact that people create them out of ummm well insert word here: ___. lol..
i just cant wait to get my burner in, so i can be back up.. im really missing out and missing my prgrams, hate to be useless.. but its ok, maybe i needed a break anyway, and its a good way to read up on all the tp here, so i can get some new ideas with what i want to do next, and boy am i getting some.. ;)
kewl lesmond, will keep that link for sure.. i tried ubuntu once, but it didnt recognize my sounds so.. but i think im ready.. for a pc with ubuntu on it, no monitor for 299.00.. more features than this laptop i have, but no monitor.. but im a laptop person.. i like to be portable.. if i want to take it in my backyard or driving down the road.. its nice.. hmm, is there a mod for widgets for the antivirus software.. i ran across one on trend, might be a good thing to have..
Quote from: G6 on November 28, 2007, 10:17:28 PM
(remember this is tinyportal support though, not linux ;) )
Heavy Duty Linux support can be found HERE. (http://www.bitbendertech.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=48)
And... the tip by Lesmondâ,,¢ is an outstanding way to play with the Linux OS to see if you like it. There are lots of different releases of Linux by various groups, the one G6 mentioned is a nice one.
Here's the one I like best:
http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/index-en.html
Quote from: lebisol on November 28, 2007, 09:16:49 PM
mac are cool...I wish there were more freware apps for them.
it is M$ world though
but what's the fun if ur not forced to format every so often :P
1555 pages full of software ... 602 pages freeware ... http://www.macupdate.com
oh, but thats supposed to be spam ... oh boy ... but i love my mac :D
:2funny: thank you guys.. at least you have kept me laffing thru this, and i tried to post it in an area that it would be ok for me to post in.. im sure everyone here has some kind of story, and even if you have the best projection, there is always someone that wants to mess things up.. nothing is fool proof, but how you handle these kinds of situations, well.. i need not say anything, but thank you again.. it goes to show that the tp community really does care about people, and that means alot, not just to me, but to all here.. ;)
tomorrows topic will be:________... :P ::)
Yeah i love my mac too..to me it's like a whole new world. :)
- http://www.smalldog.com/product/44231
Macs are definetly cool and unix flavors are more stable...but little windows rule the market. like it or hate it....and all over a little icon concept lol.
not to get into availablity of "free" software for win.....which is how many of win boxes get infected of those sites lol.
right again lebisol.. m$ may rule, but governments are changing to linux.. france, russia etc., why? and when you get fed up enough, because it is a 90% window's world, and most viruses and trojans are targeted to the m$.. where will you go to?? :-\ true, i love the gui's.. visual person i do admit.. and i have a hard time learning new stuff, like tp.. but i do catch on.. well.. sumtimezzz :P
u get a unix based device to protect your netwrok from spyware lol....that's what I did. Have not seen spyware in yrs.
At the end of the day all I need is blocks LOL.
Quote from: Relyana on November 28, 2007, 07:30:25 PM
and Smoky .. Gosh you're everywhere !!! :up:
Yes, Smoky is everywhere .....
Quote from: lebisol on November 28, 2007, 09:16:49 PM
but what's the fun if ur not forced to format every so often :P
Agree with you lebisol ... I better find an excuse to re-format my hd this weekend.
Two suggestions, one already posted by G6.
Spybot Search and Destroy, and Ewido, now owned by AVG. I've found both to be very good for spyware.
I need to format my main PC as it's running pretty slow and I haven't done a format on it for 2-3 years.
Also when dealing with virus' and trojans, if you can Find (by Searching) the .exe file, simply rename it to something like..
younastyvirus.txt, you may have to do it in Safe Mode..By changing the Filename Extension and deleting all associated files, stops it executing on start up.
This won't work for all nasties.. but it can help.
One thing you can try is to write down what the virus is doing and then put that into the google search engine. Then you find all these other people with the same problem!
This can be a way to find out what the name of it is. Once you have the name you can put that into google and there will be a fix for it.
If your using XP then I found having sp2 on makes a huge difference. Most of these things exploit operating system vulnerabilities.
Up to date antivirus should locate some part of the virus. The other possibility is that it is a hack, someone has hacked in and changed something about the operating system.
You can use system restore to take the system back to a point where it was working well if you have that on.
You can also use the verify signed files feature of xp off the disc and it will look at all the operating system files on your system and ensure they are valid files and have not been tampered with.
mine is all fixed now, as of late last night, and i am getting a new liteon external dvd burner.. hopefully before next wednesday.. but just because i'm fixed, doesn't mean this thread can be closed, if you need a place to talk about bugs trojans and viruses lol :coolsmiley: hope this thread will help others.. lots of good stuff in it!!
thanks to you guys that have posted and helped me deal with this, i will be back up fully, soon as i get the burner, then lol.. will be a lil busy.. ;) but still around.. thanks TP :D
Glad to see you're back up and running!! You're right - lots of good info here.
thank you!! ;) :D
Spam is a wonderful meat! LOL Sorry, couldn't resist. ;)
giggles shucks Skhilled, i like my spam fried, with eggs on a toasted sesame seed bun :2funny: :2funny:
I'm hungry now. ;D :coolsmiley:
I've never eaten Spam but maybe it's nice fried then dipped in chocolate?
::) naw deviled eggs with pickles, topped by shaved spam is more like it!! :coolsmiley: :2funny: