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LAN Party Forums => Support Group => Started by: gravdigr on March 01, 2010, 01:51:25 PM
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So while I was away at the LAN party a friend borrowing one of my old laptops got a virus from facebook trying to close a pop up window. The laptop had avg on it which I realized sucks. I never got around to installing avast on that laptop. Well I'm trying to get rid of this virus And it refuses to download avast from the website, I can't transfer it over the network. I burnt the install file onto a cd and the laptop says the disc is blank when I load it. I'm assuming this is the virus. Does anyone have suggestions? I'm thinking I probably need a boot disc, preferably a cd as my external floppy is buried somewhere.
I feel bad for the guy. He was afraid to tell me. He is generally very careful but a clever person coded the virus in the close box of the popup. I told him anymore end the process when that happens.
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Have you tried reading the disk in Safemode? Another option would be using one of these bootable antivirus disks. http://www.techmixer.com/free-bootable-antivirus-rescue-cds-download-list/ (http://www.techmixer.com/free-bootable-antivirus-rescue-cds-download-list/)
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First...what type of 'virus' is it? Is it a virus or is it a rogue anti-spyware/anti-virus?
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I'd say screw the formalities and go straight for the killshot. If ComboFix wont fix it, I dont know what will. Let it run it's course and it will kill just about anything you run into. There isnt anything I havent gotten rid of from ComboFix
Link To ComboFix (http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/combofix/how-to-use-combofix)
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I'd say screw the formalities and go straight for the killshot. If ComboFix wont fix it, I dont know what will. Let it run it's course and it will kill just about anything you run into. There isnt anything I havent gotten rid of from ComboFix
Link To ComboFix ([url]http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/combofix/how-to-use-combofix[/url])
QFT!