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Bloody virus

Postby BFMF » Fri Apr 16, 2004 7:44 pm

This keeps popping up, but scanning this directory using AVG comes up with nothing, and aparently, it's not accessible to the user so I can't manually delete it.

Can someone please help me out? I'm running out of ideas, and it's annoying the hell outta me >:(

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Re: Bloody virus

Postby GeForce » Sat Apr 17, 2004 1:45 am

Hi Andrew!

Restart the computer in Safe Mode and run AVG across the whole system ;)

That should let AVG find the virus and heal/delete it.

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Re: Bloody virus

Postby BFMF » Sat Apr 17, 2004 2:27 am

Thanks for the suggestion :)
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Re: Bloody virus

Postby GeForce » Sat Apr 17, 2004 3:40 am

No problem, if it doesn't work let me know ;)
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Re: Bloody virus

Postby BFMF » Mon Apr 26, 2004 11:52 am

I tried booting into safe mode, but AVG refuses to run in Safe mode.

Any other ideas?
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Re: Bloody virus

Postby GeForce » Mon Apr 26, 2004 12:03 pm

Hmm that's very odd. Can you boot into safe mode with Command Prompt? If so, do that and run AVG from the command line...
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Re: Bloody virus

Postby BFMF » Mon Apr 26, 2004 4:51 pm

AVG is a windows application with a Graphical Interface, how could it work on a commandline???
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Re: Bloody virus

Postby GeForce » Tue Apr 27, 2004 12:57 pm

Is there not a command line program that comes with AVG? Or is that just with the paid version?
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Re: Bloody virus

Postby BFMF » Wed Apr 28, 2004 12:19 am

Not that I know of
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Re: Bloody virus

Postby GeForce » Wed Apr 28, 2004 12:54 am

OK, well the only thing I can suggest apart from getting a different virus scanner (or paying for AVG to get the proper GUI) is to use an online virus scanner, such as:

http://housecall.antivirus.com/housecal ... _frame.asp
http://housecall.trendmicro.com/houseca ... t_corp.asp
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http://www.pandasoftware.com/activescan ... ncipal.htm

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Re: Bloody virus

Postby BFMF » Wed Apr 28, 2004 1:41 am

Trying it right now.
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Re: Bloody virus

Postby BFMF » Wed Apr 28, 2004 8:18 pm

I think it worked. It removed a trojan virus, and I havn't seen the pop-up at all today. My hard drive free space also went from 100 mb to 400mb.

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Re: Bloody virus

Postby GeForce » Thu Apr 29, 2004 12:56 am

Good one Andrew. Trojan horses are the worst of the lot IMO. Glad you got rid of it ;)
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