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Computer Virus help - Win vista

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    Hummer Well-Known Member

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    Computer Virus help - Win vista

    Last night i opened a picture in google and my computer completely messed up... i kept getting a bunch of strange pop ups telling me i had malware and key loggers and spyware shit on my computer and kept popping up with these virus scan things... well now my computer background is all black with no icons and i can only see my tool bar on the bottom... i tried to do a system restore to a previous time but it says i have no restore points? and sometimes when i restart my computer it tells me my computer is gonna restart in one minute because of an error, is there anything i can do without losing all my music? which is what im mainly worried about.
    Hummer, Oct 29, 2009
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    Hummer Well-Known Member

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    no i didnt update or download anything to get this, i just viewed a picture.
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    MovieSTAR i hurd u liek?

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    reformat.
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    GSE21tuner Formerly rollatuner110. Representing AZLexus.club

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    Back up your files with an external and nuke the system. Then scan the files you backed up before transferring.

    I suggest you get a new virus software. I recommend the Eset NOD32.
    GSE21tuner, Oct 29, 2009
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    how do i reformat?
    Hummer, Oct 30, 2009
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    back up everything that you need, put your windows disk in the drive, don't close it yet, restart your computer, it should ask you to hit any key to boot from CD, if it boots in to windows, you need to set up the CDrom to boot before the Hard drive. then just follow the instructions in the windows setup for a new install..
    Denver Rolla, Oct 30, 2009
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    GSE21tuner Formerly rollatuner110. Representing AZLexus.club

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    He summed it up pretty well. Good luck.
    GSE21tuner, Oct 30, 2009
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    MovieSTAR i hurd u liek?

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    install windows 7
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    +1

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    cgreen38 Common sense, p

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    Fixed. :)
    cgreen38, Oct 30, 2009
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    1337Rolla oh my

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    I've had something similar, only solution is to reinstall windows. (just like every other problem)
    1337Rolla, Oct 30, 2009
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    speaking of that... new version came out yesterday.. me likey.. )
    Denver Rolla, Oct 30, 2009
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    cgreen38 Common sense, p

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    I know. I need to do my upgrade from Jaunty to Karmic this weekend. :)
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    did it last night... took 6 hours... apparently I wasn't the only one
    Denver Rolla, Oct 30, 2009
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    I got a hold of the Windows 7 Corporate edition finally. :D
    GSE21tuner, Oct 31, 2009
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    found out i have the "b.exe" virus, gonna try to remove it with avast :)
    Hummer, Oct 31, 2009
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