Big Bug!

Posts: 793 · Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2005 9:40 pm

This bug is a virus, i need help to get rid of it, and believe me ive tried everything, but the computer still turn it self off after about 5 min when ive turned it on. Its very annoying!

Ive tried diffrent viurs removetools from norton etc. - other antivirus programs like panda, norton. - ive tried go-back-in-time-thingy in xp pro - and when i try reformat my computer, it says my version is too new, u cant format to an older xp pro version (which actually is the version i got now)!

After some research, i think the virus called "blaster" or another name which i cant remember right now, pretty new one.

Cheers
Desperate chick in the need!

Posts: 503 · Posted: Tue Sep 06, 2005 6:38 am

aye, i had this happen to me countless times, you get 60 seconds to fix it lol! write down exactly what it says during that shutdown time thing, then log back on google those exact words, and the fix is in like the first 2, always works Laughing

Posts: 12 · Newb Joined: 24 Aug 2005 Posts: 12 Location: The Internet

Use antivir+some firewall (I recomend Kerio or Sygate) to avoid these. anyway... if it really is MSblaster, there are tons of good removal softwares out there. http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.blaster.worm.html is one. I recomend using ones that come from known companies like that or F-Prot or likes. ALSO, if you already have it fixed, poo on you for not telling here.

Posts: 49 · Newb Joined: 26 Jun 2005 Posts: 49

Keep in mind to turn off sytem restore while removing the virus.
It should be in control panel in a file called "system." Then all you have to do is click on the system restore tab and check the "turn off system restore box"

Some viruses keep themselves in existence that way. What is supposed to help ya can sometimes be used to hurt ya. Confused

Posts: 793 · Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2005 5:19 pm

Thanks for yer help, problem aint solved yet.

Posts: 1184 · Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2005 5:30 pm

burn it. get a new one. guranteed to work.

Posts: 793 · Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2005 7:52 pm

emit. wrote:

burn it. get a new one. guranteed to work.

yeh im thinkin of buyin a laptop, much easier to travel with when im movin out from my mum's house next year. SON OUT OF THE NEST! wooohoo

Posts: 1184 · Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2005 9:15 pm

me too!! can't waittttt. are you going to uni?

Posts: 177 · Elite Joined: 05 Nov 2005 Posts: 177 Location: UK

Same, tho I'm having a gap year, New Zealand hopesfully Smile

Posts: 793 · Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2005 11:39 pm

emit. wrote:

me too!! can't waittttt. are you going to uni?

not sure, thats what i got a half year to decide now, maybe we meet in oxford! would be great Very Happy

Posts: 1184 · Posted: Fri Dec 09, 2005 6:37 pm

i was in oxford this week Very Happy

Posts: 209 · Posted: Sun Dec 11, 2005 2:28 am

loosers ^^ i allready have a job at the uni. in Treehuggingtown....

hehe, here's a fun story from this friday:

Every year the uni. have a "come-together", also known ask the most feared word in Norway: Julebord (means christmas table in english) where people forget about their jobs, wife, children and go around at the uni., drinkin' and having sex with someone they don't know on a copy-machine (it's tradision here in Norway, every year, people have random sex and that takes pic's of their asses with the help of a copy-machine, then send the pic's to poor children in Asia)..

So i was on this "julebord", alot of drunk proff's, students, lectors and teachers, and suddently, this 1.6meter high drunk fellow comes towards me tell me that he can kick my ass and that he is a lector that could make my life hell....
I asked: "Why are you telling me this?"
He replied: "'Couse if you don't try to take my wife from me soon, ill go nuts!"
...then i felt a suddent rush to leave with a friend, (that also works at the uni.) and we when on a good and ethanol-filled trip on the town with 5 others.....

and now i have learned: "Never, EVER, use a red caps while walking down a hall filled with beer, the bears don't like that!"