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Caught a Virus and Norton Antivirus is useless

Dec 17, 2005 12:30PM PST

I got hold of a serious pain in the backside. Wound up getting weblookup and some other stuff. This removed my google toolbar and installed another toolbar and locked the toolbars so I could not access anything or make any changes. Also Norton Antivirus would/will not start up. After a lot of registery edits I was able to get control of the toolbar and I can start up Norton Antivirus. But as Norton is scanning the C drive it freezes up, over and over! I've downloaded several fixes from the Norton website and each one of them freezes up too!

Also I have this new program that always seems to be running, even if I close it. And I cannot find it in the process list! This program looks like a popup. And if i click on the close button the programs disappers very quickly. It does not close like a normal windows program. This program has no windows box around it. There are 6 button boxes, one on top of the other with a close box at the bottom. Starting at the top they are labeled Gambling, Dating,Pharmacy, XXX, Spyware, Insurance. Just rolling the mouse over each box causes the program to go to the internet and grab some links.

Any thoughts on how to get rid of this is very welcome.

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Malware removal
Dec 17, 2005 1:45PM PST
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(NT) (NT) & For Heavens Sake: DON'T Click on Any of Their Links!!
Dec 17, 2005 2:44PM PST
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(NT) (NT) What do you mean by that?
Dec 17, 2005 9:06PM PST
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I THINK Tobeach is talking
Dec 17, 2005 9:13PM PST

about the links that are appearing on the original poster's computer but he didn't say that so I can see the confusion. YOUR link chiawaikian, the CastleCops one is good advice. This should clear up any confusion for the original poster also.

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thanks
Dec 18, 2005 10:23AM PST

Oh ok, I was wondering. Thanks for clearing that up.

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(NT) (NT) Sorry! Roddys Right. Meant Pop-Ups He's Seeing Already.
Dec 18, 2005 3:48PM PST