Yup, the virus/malware has probably hijacked your Hosts file.
Yup, the virus/malware has probably hijacked your Hosts file.
Avast and spybot search and destroy. You really don't need more...
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You just might be right. (You usually are.) Whatever is friggin' with my riggin' is not letting me DL superantispyware or update Ad-Aware or Spybot. I appear to be in the clutches of an evil madman.
Since our learned and most excellent members suggest a browser other than IE, which is of course what I use, how does one safely - meaning without killing myself or my software - change from IE to Firefox?
And is it easy to change over, or does it require a brain? Cause, you know...
Unto each good man a good dog
Yep.
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/personal.html
Download. It'll ask if you want copy your bookmarks etc, tick yes, install. Search for the add-ons Noscript and Ad-Block. Safety.![]()
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Some piously affirm: "The truth is such and such. I know! I see!"
And hold that everything depends upon having the “right” religion.
But when one really knows, one has no need of religion. - Mahavyuha Sutra
Freedom necessarily involves risk. - Alan Watts
Yeah, thats a nasty one. Do it quick.
I had that problem earlier in the year, wouldnt let me access C drive (had to go into explorer, [delete your recycle bin in C:\ base]) or any antivirus stuff. I ended up reformatting.
Last edited by pevergreen; 12-05-2009 at 15:58.
Well, I am Firefoxed.
Not that it helps, I'm still kazood up the wazoo and can't seem to update or install any new anti-virus stuff or Google straight to a page without running into endless useless search engine pages.
In any event, this is beyond what I'm prepared to deal with. This machine is a crazy conglomeration of my woman's French programs and my English ones, as well as having been subjected to my kids various live chat programs and online games, so I think it's time for The Big Flush. I was going to do it anyway, but this situation just seems to beg for it.
Aside from whether I should re-install XP or go for the newer W7, since I'm going to backup my stuff on an external HD, re-install some form of Win and then retrive my stuff, what is the ultimate Must have list of stuff I should install prior to retrieving my old stuff off the external HD (and inspecting it with)?
I'm guessing:
AVG 9.0 Free
Superantispyware
Spybot
Any other programs I should have or steps I should take?
Thanks for the help.![]()
Unto each good man a good dog
I would definitely move to Win7.
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