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Well, it’ll go to someone, but it won’t be Geeksquad. I think it started last night and Dad fooled around with it for a few hours, then fooled around with it some more this evening before I got home, so I never had a chance to stop it before it got this bad.
Times like this I’m quite relieved I have a Mac.
Edit: BTW Nakase, you could try Trillian (a client) or Meebo (a website) for IMing. Trillian will load your lists from Yahoo, AIM and MSN Messenger, and so will Meebo. Give them a try.
Nakase wrote:yah, I got it a week and a half ago…that thing was EVIL o_o
My husband got the computer to boot to safemode then scanned with malewarebytes and AVG(the free version) so far, it’s tried coming back every so often, but I think it’s because I use instant messengers. I since have deleted my yahoo and aim from the computer, but am using windows live messenger…and that might be what is causing it to reoccur.
worst comes to worst, you’ll have to reformat :
got malewarebytes from download.com as a free trial version.
AVG you can get from their site: http://www.avg.com/Also, husband said that as malewarebytes scans, the virus/trojan copies itself to a portion that has already been scanned. Well, when it moves like that, AVG pops up saying something has changed and if you want to delete the file. The two programs work in tandem.
Good luck <3
~NakaseHow did he get it to boot in safe mode? I tried several times, and each time I got the blue screen telling me Windows had encountered an error and shut down and I could go no further from there.
Tomorrow evening when I get home, if my mother hasn’t taken the afflicted laptop to someone else, I’ll try again.
Well, if I can get to it to download it again, I’ll use your link to get there. I tried using google, but the damn thing is blocking Google searches.
It’s a mell of a hess right now, honestly. It’s like a hostile computer takeover.
It’s posing as an Anti-virus program, but it really isn’t. It wants credit card information, you can’t shut it off and it most certainly isn’t behaving like a real AV program. A google search IDs it as a critical threat, there’s multiple sites with instructions on how to remove it, but I can’t remove this version.
It will get taken care of one way or another, I was just poking around to see if I could do it this evening somehow, but it’s looking less and less like something a novice like me can handle.
Has anybody else dealt with this recently?
A couple of weeks ago I removed a similar, though simply annoying, piece of malware from my dad’s laptop with this name or something close to it. Simply downloading and running Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware worked last time, but I can’t get to it this time.
Last night he contracted this program again, but now it’s completely evil. It has killed Avast, Ad-Aware, hijacks IExplore from time to time, does not allow a start up in Safe Mode and also won’t allow a System Restore.
I have tried to use a manual removal instruction list, but no go, as half the files aren’t there, and the main program files can’t be deleted while the damn thing is running, obviously. And I’m not all that programming/Windows/Computersavvy to go tinkering any more.
Does anybody have an ideas? I’ve messed around with it this evening some, but probably tomorrow it’s going to go to someone with more expertise than I. And afterward, Dad will be using Firefox and Adblocker if I have to beat him ’round the head with a bat.
Man, I so wish I could afford your peacock sun. I miss mine dearly. Alas I suffer the same issues as everybody else right now.
What about writing? Editorial/copywriter/freelance/etc.
I’m sure a job search with ‘writing’ as your keyword would turn up tons of stuff.
That’s not a tough decision to me, at least. I’d go to the conference, especially if it’s a continuing education or learning type conference that you will need/could use to your benefit. I’d spend money on the chance to learn something before I’d stay home on the dismal chance I *might* win something.
I feel your pain on the job search thing.
I graduated back in August and I still haven’t found anything in my field. I’ve kept my retail job from school, which is blessedly giving me 30 hours a week (and I just put my name in the hat for the manager position that’s opening up, I don’t count on getting it, but at least I can say I tried).
I wish you the very best of luck at finding *something*. It’s a tough old world out there right now for those of us that are looking for work.
