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Identifying a virus
Name: amc Date: October 31, 2005 at 00:03:19 Pacific OS: XP Pro sp1 CPU/Ram: AMC 2100 512
Comment:
After downloading from several webpages related to security, I have my system infected. Antivirus Gard cannot detect anything but synthomps are:
-A Wallpaper on top of my own one (a text, not an image) -Three files are identified as viruses by AVG (EF, WINSOCK and SKILLER), all of them in Windows\system -After a while, certain programs cannot be executed (for instance, Firefox, IE, Outlook). There are others that can be executed (Word) -Pressing Ctrl-Alt-Del causes nothing to happen
Name: Zenith Date: October 31, 2005 at 11:47:51 Pacific
Reply:
"A Wallpaper on top of my own one" -WHAT?
"Three files are identified as viruses" WHICH ONES??
98% of the population is asleep. The other 2% are staring around in complete amazement, abject terror, or both.
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Response Number 2
Name: DSE Date: October 31, 2005 at 23:49:17 Pacific
Reply:
Did you try scanning your system using anti-spyware tools? If not, please take a look on THIS list of reliable spyware removers. I suggest choosing a recommended program.
Modern antivirus programs not always can detect and completelyremove spyware, adware and spyware trojans. That is why you should have a powerful anti-spyware installed.
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