One of my stupid rugby boys sent me a link that I clicked on. The link was safe but my laptop clicked on a side link by itself (damned touchpad) and my computer went apeshit. apparently there was a trojan horse in there somewhere. windows and avg both tried to get it and the computer crashed. I restarted and ran AVG again. It says it got everything, but when I rebooted tonight it came up again. AVG stopped it, but now I'm all paranoid about putting in an email password or anything else. any thoughts?
Hey! What a surprise! Hostile 17! Can I get you a drink, Hostile 17?
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Vortex - Aug 12, 2009 7:32:48 pm PDT #10913 of 25501
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
Typo Boy - Aug 12, 2009 9:15:31 pm PDT #10914 of 25501
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Malwarebytes in safe mode.
(Note does give false positives, but ask here and we can help you spot them.)
DCJensen - Aug 13, 2009 4:58:28 am PDT #10915 of 25501
All is well that ends in pizza.
I agree with Typo Boy
Vortex - Aug 13, 2009 5:59:29 am PDT #10916 of 25501
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
Malwarebytes in safe mode.
Just download the program, open in safe mode and run it? Is the free version okay?
Gudanov - Aug 13, 2009 6:03:14 am PDT #10917 of 25501
Coding and Sleeping
The free version should be fine. It's what I've used. It picked up stuff that the anti-virus software (CA something or other) didn't.
Vortex - Aug 13, 2009 6:12:50 am PDT #10918 of 25501
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
Great, thanks! I pretty much trust AVG, but the fact that everytime I boot up, it says that it caught the trojan horse makes me nervous.
Vortex - Aug 13, 2009 7:30:33 pm PDT #10919 of 25501
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
Malware says I'm clean, but AVG keeps beeping at me! Ack!
amych - Aug 15, 2009 2:40:41 pm PDT #10920 of 25501
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
New netbook (named Hardison. Say "hi" to the nice peoples, Hardison!) needs a linux twitter client -- anyone have any suggestions?
tiggy - Aug 15, 2009 6:12:22 pm PDT #10921 of 25501
I do believe in killing the messenger, you know why? Because it sends a message. ~ Damon Salvatore
okay...i'm seriously at my wit's end with my Firefox problem. now Yahoo and Youtube won't load at all unless i use the IE extension i have dled. this is the page i'm getting when i try to load it. any help would be appreciated. i did uninstall and reinstall Firefox and it did absolutely nothing.
le nubian - Aug 15, 2009 6:19:16 pm PDT #10922 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
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