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Question

Ok, so my laptop got an uber virus, and nothing i did could sort it out. Recently my friend has fixed everything else, but the virus still remains, apparently it is a trojan snuggling somewhere in my System32 folder like the little bastard it is. i was wondering if there is a specific anti-virus, or one more powerful than mine. every time i scan, it finds the virus fine, but cant be rid of it.

for reference, in case anyone has had this kind of trojan before. i got it and at first it would let me do anything at all, eventually it would let me log back on and eventually blue screen my laptop, till i had to do it in safe mode, unfortunately if i tried to do too much it would blue screen again, i know that often happens when there is a memory or hard drive error, i say iot because that is how it started, in safe mode it would divert my google thing, so i couldnt go to a site via google, at first. it disabled my internet entirely before that though, erm, i think thats the main things. please help><

Answer 1

Some good general advice about PC security located here:



http://revutube.blogspot.com/2009/11/pc-security-10-simple-steps.html



There's also inks to reviews of several top performing pc security products located on this page...



Hope it helps...

Answer 2

Unless your willing to pay you won't get rid of it. Downloadable anti virus' aren't as "powerful" or they don't remove the strong types of virus.



Heres some REALLY good ones-

Shield Deluxe - Antivirus Protection ($20)

Trend Micro Antivirus Internet Security 2010 ($40)

Kaspersky Internet Security 2009 ($60)

VIPRE Antivirus + Antispyware ($30)

BitDefender Antivirus 2010 ($25)

Answer 3

Your computer has localized aids the "Trojan" you downloaded probably is the after effect of of the "firewall" breaking during you laptops "experimentave involving data swapping" with another laptop that already had it. If you computer has some symptoms like "loss of memory", "burning discharge", "farting ninja industrious monkeys", "constant crashing" or "red rashes" it may have a cardio-respiratory-anomaly-paradisorder-peon-incognitive-neck-grabblets (CRAPPING for short). CRAPPING causes rapid weight loss, bile-discharge-from-all-holes-at-once, TeH bLu ScReEnN Of dOoM!1!1!1!1! CRAPPING has no known cure EXCEPT for wiping you whole computer down with a electro manget

Answer 4

Run scans with these two free programs (~8



1. SpyDLLRemover is the standalone tool to effectively detect and delete spywares from the system. It comes with advanced spyware scanner which quickly discovers hidden Rootkit processes as well suspcious/injected DLLs within all running processes.



Go here for details and download

(Free) http://www.rootkitanalytics.com/userland/spy-dll-remover.php



Download portable version here and put it on a flash drive / CD whatever?

(Free) http://portableapps.com/apps/utilities/spydllremover_portable



Go here for info on dll's

http://www.dll-files.com/dllindex/index.shtml





2. Malwarebytes free version is a on demand scanner that is very effective at malware removal and removing regedit and task manager restrictions.

(Note) Works best in safe mode with networking.

(Free) http://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam.php



(Note) If it won't install right click on the mbam setup app and rename it xxxx then Dbl click on it and install,update and run a full scan and delete/quarantine all entities it finds and restart if it asks?



(Note) If it won't update use this link to download and install the latest rules.

http://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam/database/mbam-rules.exe



(Note) If you already have Malwarebytes installed and it won't run go in it's program file and rt click on the red mbam app and rename it mbam.bat then rt click and choose send to-> Desktop (create shortcut) now close out of everything and go to your desk top and use that app to launch M-Bam for now on.

Answer 5

http://www.technize.com/2008/06/23/smart-virus-remover-14/



Try this, best of luck.