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possible computer viruss
alright soo i was on my other computer today (not this one) andd i was trying to download aim+, but i think when i went to the website, it was a fake aim+ website that made me download a virus! because all of a sudden these weird things started popping up and it said "virus detected" blah blah blah and when i pressd cntrl+alt+delete it said "Task Manager Disabled By Administrator" which i definately did not disable it! anyyways now theres this weird "MSvista security center" thinggy on my computer and it keeps telling me i have viruses and that i must buy a pakage to delete virus threats? and i keep trying to get on my internet and what not and it wont let me.. idk what to do can anybody help me?
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Maybe give some free advice about: Computers?
1) Get on another computer and download Mozilla firefox. Find a way to get it onto your computer. If nothing else, flash drives are cheap.
2) Firefox SHOULD let you access the internet.
3) Follow the instructions of the guy below, or else follow what I'm about to copy/paste from a previous answer of mine.
rograms to get and run.
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AVG Virus scan.
One of the best out there, updated regularly. I'd say second only to Norton, but better imo because you can uninstall it without destroying your computer.
Its a trial version, worth buying but if you want to just install and run it once completely free.
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Malware bytes. Good anti spyware program.
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Spybot search and destroy.
Absolute must. Best program I've found to date. Its updated sometimes almost daily. Teatimer is great, it keeps track of your system for you and logs changes made. It automatically blocks a bunch of sites and you can scan for hundreds of thousands of possible spyware.
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Peer Guardian 2. Directly blocks IP addresses known to be associated with anti P2P (anti piracy groups) and with spyware. Good thing to have running alot of the time, it blocks hostile IPs from being able to access or be accessed by your computer. If you download anything via any kind of program this should be running, always.
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Security task manager. Also a trial version, but it monitors your processes and shows you anything thats out of the ordinary. Spyware running? This can tell you what the program actually is, and can show you what all your system processes are and what theyre connected to so you recognize the processes listed in your task manager.
If you don't use mozilla firefox you should be.
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and get Noscript
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These two are your front lines of defense, as most keyloggers are designed to exploit internet explorer in order to load onto your computer.
Noscript kills the programs that try to invade your computer. Good program, though you'll have to tell it to allow alot of websites you go to frequently.
Once all these come up clean (let AVG do a boot scan, takes like 45 min) and you've used the immunize function on spybot and run a bot check, you should be OK.
4) If you are unable to clear your computer of infection, then you should reformat and reinstall.
Hopefully you have install discs. If not, there are a myriad of ways to get an OS. I recommend windows XP for now, vista is still a monster POS inefficient OS. I used to have a copy somewhere I bought for 5 bucks from the college tech store (that was great, Microsoft sold them cheap to my University and I only had to pay for the discs themselves)
Anyway, hit F10 when rebooting, choose "Boot from CD" and follow prompts to reinstall.
Then come back here and follow this post again to get programs that will protect you.
Oh, and AVG is really worth buying. The task manager one is just kinda nice to have.
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Follow my guide here:
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My guide will probably not fix it completely, but it should get most of it. Post to a malware removal forum if you still have problems:
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You most definitely have a virus.:/ I would first try preforming a system restore. If you don't know how to do that I can explain, but that is a whole new question. So send me an inbox message if you need to. If that doesn't work you could be in some serious trouble. You may have to re-install windows, which would delete all your files.
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