Might have a virus?

by JimJoeBobChuck May 27, 2005 7:18AM PDT

I am running Windows XP Pro on a Compaq Presario with 512 GBs bla bla bla.
The other day I clicked on word and it asked me to put the install CD in the Rom Drive. fixed that.

Then I clicked on Quicken to do my bills and it was gone no where to be found. Could not fix it the back up was on the hard drive.
Then went to run ad-aware as well as spybot, both were gone. all of these were on the desktop but missing some types of files (exe)

I also ran Windows update and the only critical update I could get failed. I have since ran it again with success.

When I clicked on Norton I found that the firewall's Intrusion Detection was turned off and it would not let me turn it on. I ran an update and it was turned back on.

I am not sure if maybe there is some new type of Virus going around or what I called Symantec and they had me run checks on there web page but found nothing not sure what to do at this point now that everything seems to be running fine.

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I would start with a free online....

by Michael Geist May 27, 2005 7:38AM PDT

virus scan courtesy of Housecall:

http://housecall.trendmicro.com/housecall/start_corp.asp

try it in Safe Mode with Networking.

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I have a somewhat similar problem

by simplydisturbed May 27, 2005 1:24PM PDT

I hope somebody out there has the answer. I have had some of these same problems as you have had - mostly the latter few, but with a twist. Long story short, I was hijacked. Norton was no help. I ran Symantec's virus scan from their website - it removed less than half of the spyware. My SpyBot and Adaware wasn't much help. I even tried to download a recommended virus scan from Trend Micro but it crashed my I.E. Browser every time. Finally, I took it to the Geek Squad at Best Buy, and $150 later, I STILL have a hijacked homepage and Windows Security warnings flying everywhere. Totally frustrated and don't know where to turn next. Any help appreciated.

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Hijack this

by phantazy May 27, 2005 6:00PM PDT

I would download Hijack this and send your log for analysis at somewhere like Castle Cops at

http://castlecops.com/HijackThis.html

If you know what the file name causing your problem you could do a registry search and delete it there. Also go to Virus and Securities Forum where they know more about this

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Why don't you save your data

by glb613 May 27, 2005 7:54PM PDT

and start over?

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(NT) (NT) Maybe it was Jim, Joe, Bob or Chucks' fault!!!

by AussiePete May 27, 2005 7:24PM PDT

Might have a virus?

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