I don’t know how it happened; one day I got home from work and signed in to a bunch of pages of advertisement being displayed. I tried using Avast, Search and Destroy and 1 Click Maintenance to no avail. Search and Destroy actually deleted something important to the registry and my icons and start button and bar wouldn’t display anymore. I had to load it up in safemode and undo everything it cleaned up, which fixed that problem but the malware still remains.
One thing I did notice is that normally my windows updates are automatic and now it is turned off and I can’t turn it back on again. Another thing is that these are all trial versions of the anti-virus and malware detection/elimination software. I’m at a loss though, usually I can get this cleaned up in a jiffy but this one seems to be serious. System Restore doesn’t have a mark to where I can restore it to an earlier time either.
Any ideas?
I would just wipe it clean but of course I can’t find my XP disk at all.
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It sounds like your computer has a serious infection. It will take a deep cleaning to remove all of the problems, and you definitely need to use Spyware Doctor in addition to doing some other things. There is more software – Avira, A-Squared, Ad Aware, SuperAntiSpyware, Spyware Doctor, and others at http://spyware-and-adware.com also some tutorials that show you how to use the software. Just follow the instructions in the videos step-by-step and that should take care of the problem.
First to turn off System Restore in Windows XP press here http://support.microsoft.com/kb/310405
After Try To Restart you Computer Safe Mode With Networking how to Restart?
1. Log out and reboot your machine.
2. When the machine starts the reboot sequence, press the F8 key repeatedly.
3. Select Safe Mode with Networking from the resulting menu.
4. When the log in screen comes up, log in as Administrator. By default, Administrator has no password.
5. The machine will continue booting, but the Windows desktop will look different. In The Safe Mode With Networking Then Download and Scan Use Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware http://www.download.com/Malwarebytes-Anti-Malware/3000-8022_4-10804572.html?tag=contentBody;mostPopTwoColWrap&cdlPid=10984636
6. Download Super Anti-Spyware Press here http://www.superantispyware.com/
7.Download and Scan use SmitFraudFix v2.388 (WinXP, Win2K) Press here http://siri.geekstogo.com/SmitfraudFix.php
8. Restart you Computer Safe Mode Only, in the Safe Mode Try To remove this virus manually ok log on in ”safe mode”
select ”Start” on Taskbar then right click on ”internet explorer”
and then ”internet Properties”
under browser history select ”settings”
and then click on ”View Files”
top of the window click on ”local”tab
and then open ”temp” folder
and delete every thing in this folder
and restart you Computer
9. Download and Scan use Norman Malware Cleaner Press here http://www.norman.com/Virus/Virus_removal_tools/24789/
After Finish Remove all malware in You Computer please turn On System Restore in Windows XP
Then Download Good Anti-Virus i would Recommend Use Avira AntiVir Personal Press here http://www.download.com/Avira-AntiVir-Personal-Free-Antivirus/3000-2239_4-10322935.html?tag=contentBody;mostPopTwoColWrap&cdlPid=10901492
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download Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware and it should clean it up for you. I remember that pop up thing happen to me too and I was going crazy. I did restore, safe mode, norton antivirus scan… nothin… but luckily I found this software and it really clean it up for me. I was glad I didnt reset my computer or else I have to installed everything again.. Here the link for it.
http://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam.php
PS – I download the free version, this version is more than enough to do the job, let me know if this helps.