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I think my pc has been infected by worms! But I can't tell
what worm it is! What should I do to identify the type of the worm? And what should I do after knowing what worm it is? |
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"Yammi" wrote:
I think my pc has been infected by worms! But I can't tell what worm it is! What should I do to identify the type of the worm? And what should I do after knowing what worm it is? Do you have an antivirus program installed? Is it fully up to date with the virus definition files not more than a week old? Have you done a complete virus scan of your hard drive within the past day or two? If the answers to all of the above questions is Yes then your problem is more likely to be related to spyware rather than a virus/worm. And if the answer is No to any of them then you need to remedy that immediately. Then go to MVP Jim Eshelman's online spyware test at http://aumha.org/a/noads.htm and then follow the instructions on his Quick Fix page at http://www.aumha.org/a/quickfix.htm And also get a "second opinion" on possible virus infections by doing a free online virus scan at http://housecall.trendmicro.com Good luck Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada -- Microsoft MVP On-Line Help Computer Service http://onlinehelp.bc.ca "The reason computer chips are so small is computers don't eat much." |
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You may have a virus/spyware hijack
download the Stinger from here and run it to make sure that A-V-disabling viruses are not present on your PC http://download.nai.com/products/mca...rt/stinger.exe - update your virus scanner and run a full system scan of all files. Reboot to Safe Mode and run CWShredder - to remove variants of the CoolWebSearch hijacker. http://www.merijn.org/cwschronicles.html Use CWShredder, the removal tool: http://www.merijn.org/files/cwshredder.zip http://www.merijn.org/files/CWShredder.exe http://www.spywareinfo.com/downloads...CWShredder.exe http://www.zerosrealm.com/downloads/CWShredder.zip download AdAware from www.lavasoftusa.com, install, update, and run it to remove spyware, adware, and other such nasties from your system. -- Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2004, Win9x) Nil Carborundum Illegitemi http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/millsrpch.htm http://tinyurl.com/6oztj Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's "Yammi" wrote in message ... I think my pc has been infected by worms! But I can't tell what worm it is! What should I do to identify the type of the worm? And what should I do after knowing what worm it is? |
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Please go to one or more of the below online scanners and perform a scan of your platform
then report back your results. Trend: http://housecall.antivirus.com http://housecall.trendmicro.com F-Secu http://support.f-secure.com/enu/home/ols.shtml McAfee: http://www.mcafee.com/myapps/mfs/default.asp Panda: http://www.pandasoftware.com/activescan/ Symantec: http://security.symantec.com/ BitDefender http://www.bitdefender.com/scan/license.php Dave "Yammi" wrote in message ... | I think my pc has been infected by worms! But I can't tell | what worm it is! What should I do to identify the type of | the worm? And what should I do after knowing what worm it | is? |
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