virus help
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- deathboy
So my buddy was looking for some photography cheat sheets last night. He clicked on something bad. Said no install windows popped up or anything, just a lot of popup shit. And he had to reboot. When he rebooted his profile settings seemed to be hosed. All his app shortcuts and folders werent there. He called me and explained the deal. Told him to just yank the drive and bring it down with him when he gets down here for xmas. When he was trying to log out he was prevented by saying someone was currently logged into his machine. Told him to just turn that shit off. Im gonna plug the drive in and see what data i can nab and do a new reinstall tomorrow.
Anyone heard of a virus that works this way? It was a modded win7 64bit i hooked up and gave him some protection. I know he had updated all patches about a month or 2 ago. Seems weird to think he clicked on a link and this shit happened. Never seen anything like it. Any tips or knowledge on this type of attack is appreciated. If not ill figure it out as i go. But intial google searchs arent really paying off.
- drgs0
and that friend of yours.... was you?
- akrok0
drgs, some people do have friends.
- deathboy0
not me. i dont even use security. just a buddy i gave my old machine too. just by his description i thought it seemed pretty advanced. of course he may have missed something not being that big on computer know how. but if i take it at face value ive never heard of such attack. Plan on pulling data and formatting but kinda curious about it and wouldnt mind knowing more about this type of attack. Maybe ill just set him up with sand boxie.
- chris_himself_20
try the forums here: majorgeeks.com, helped me out several times.
- vaxorcist0
Hmm.... this can suck... I have ot
I used superantispyware to get rid of some shit on a friend's computer a while ago,situation not quite like that, but with some crapware popup telling him he had to "install anti-virus software" which was, itself, from a virus... ugh! but superantispyware got rid of it....
...then for him I setup 2 extra usernames, where all web surfing should be done forever after on an account without install privledges, but that's a hassle with the constant java and flash updates, and ironically, the virus definition updates too...
- yea done that one. parents are not the smartest surfers :(deathboy
- BattleAxe0
boot up in safemode , do a System Restore and choose to restore from the day before the click , you wont loose data however you still need a full system scan after the sys restore , win creates daily back up files to restore from , good luck
- jadrian_uk0
i prefer titis..
- deathboy0
yea restore worked like a champ after a safemode backup. still weird a hyperlink in a forum did so much damage with the active protections in place. still double checking everything and scanning making sure since i dont want to give the hardrive back and try to walk this through over a phone
- BattleAxe0
I got trapped at the family Xmas Party today by my brother in Law
"Hey I think I have a virus, can you check it out"