Topic: Please help - possible virus

[Michelle]

oh maybe that was from when i ran the xpdisc

ah well it didn't work its still acting strange........ go back to try those other things tomorrow

unless i needed a restart.... we'll see

Goodnight all, and thanks for your help so far

[TR]

Did you try malwarebytes

[Reno]

http://www.pandasecurity.com/homeusers/solutions/activescan/

That will scan your computer using panda and remove viruses, but it does take a few hours. Run it right before you go to sleep.

[Michelle]

Did you try malwarebytes

Yeah I've got that one TR thanks

[Michelle]

oh thanks reno that looks good, I'll try that tonight.

Strange thing is ..... I deleted MSN and As much Java as I could and reinstalled Java and the game is running fine........ dare I try installing windows messenger again lol    Can u not just get plain old msn now?


Oh and that wofyzarcouz.exe which is part of Jupious is to do with AOL (or maybe aim) they are still annoying me and I've not used them for like 2 years lol -  but why was it in recent in windows32? hmmm

 ah and I'd zipped that jupious but the file stayed in win32 and it wouldn't let me delete it.

[sam]

oh thanks reno that looks good, I'll try that tonight.

Strange thing is ..... I deleted MSN and As much Java as I could and reinstalled Java and the game is running fine........ dare I try installing windows messenger again lol    Can u not just get plain old msn now?

you could always give Pidgin a go... http://www.pidgin.im/

[davy51]

Try here it has all the older versions

http://oldversion.com/program.php?n=msnm

[Michelle]

ooo thanks guys - now I dont know which one to get lol


I ran that panda and it found 1 virus - but then i had to sign up - so i had to run it again lol - and it wasn't finished when I got home (it had stopped for some reason) from work so I stopped it and it had listed 4 suspects, 2 of which were the files we've been talking about so I actioned them and I'll have to run it again now and see if it says about the virus again.

[Michelle]

hey me again,

Just to let u know that Panda found a virus last night, I took the name down wrong but something like
HGstan-a-usa.exe. And it disinfected it. lol So I'm hoping that is that........ still yet to try it out.


I tried downloading a previous msn but it won't let u, u have to then update it.

That pidgin thing is great! ...... but I couldn't really get used to it cos it was still disconnecting, but I'll try tonight and see how it goes.

Thanks again for all your help, keep you informed lol Don't sigh like that

[Michelle]

update.....

it wasn't that virus that was causing the problem as it was still the same.........

i looked in task manager and that jupous was still running, so i stopped it and ..... no problems!!!

even though i'd fixed it on hijack this and its blocked on mcafee...... And i deleted it from add and remove programmes!
 
so how do i get rid of it? ........ do i have to do it in safemode?

any idea's please ?

[Sandra]

Turn system restore off again Michelle, go into safe mode and run any scans or do whatever you did to remove it, while still in safe mode. That should fix it 

[Reno]

Try using this tool. Go to where the file is and drag it into the white area to be fixed. It'll restart the computer if the file is locked. It takes a little while, but it'll remove it if taking it out in safemode doesn't.

http://www.atribune.org/public-beta/VundoFix.exe

[Michelle]

okay thanks I will do that.

Its seems now I got another problem, my mp3's are skipping and so are tracks on utube? lol omg !!

ok i restored to tuesday which was when i started deleting stuff lol - and its okay again i think - now I'll have to see if its anything to do with jupous .....

Off to the beach now, have a good weekend

[Michelle]

Just thought I'd let u know,

Its all fixed now, thanks for all of your help

that Vundofix got rid of it - i tried it first without going to safemode, and gone! ....... and everything is working fine now .............touchwood 

[Simon]

At last!  That was a tough one to get rid of.  Well done, Michelle!