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I think i have a virus

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Name: liquidusx
Date: March 15, 2007 at 02:05:24 Pacific
OS: windows 2000
CPU/Ram: amd athlon\1024 MB
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I think have a virus but nothing comes up when i scan with mcafee. My desktop is constantly refreshing or crashing, and many programs crash ALOT. This has been going on for awhile. Any help would be very appriciated.



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Name: Johnw
Date: March 16, 2007 at 00:22:21 Pacific
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Use HiJackThis to track down or check for possible infections.
Here is all the the info needed to empower yourself, anything you are not sure of, put into a search engine like Google.
Read this link 1st, it has step by step.
http://www.wilderssecurity.com/show...
Important: Create a specific folder on your hard drive called HijackThis to keep its backups.
You can do this by going to My Computer (Windows key+e) then double click on C: then right click and select New then Folder and name it HijackThis. Download and unzip HijackThis.exe into this folder.
http://www.merijn.org/downloads.html Or, http://tomcoyote.com/hjt/ Or, http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/...
If possible run HJT in Normal mode ( not Safe ) with all your normal startup's working.
HijackThis Tutorial - How to Analyse your own log.
http://spywarewarrior.com/viewtopic...
http://hometown.aol.co.uk/jrmc137/h...
http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/tut...
http://www.malwarehelp.org/understa...
HijackThis log file analysis ( online )
http://hijackthis.de/index.php?lang...
Or,
http://startup.networktechs.com/pag...
http://hjt.iamnotageek.com
Malware Prevention: Prevent Re-infection
http://wiki.castlecops.com/Malware_...


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