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Virus Disabled Norton, .exe files
Name: JamesQ Date: February 29, 2008 at 09:13:44 Pacific OS: Win XP CPU/Ram: Intel/1 GB(?) Product: Dell Inspiron 700m
Comment:
Last night my computer was somehow infected with a strange virus despite running AdAware Pro and Norton AV 2008, both now disabled and unusable.
I noticed a difference after clicking on a pop-up that said Norton needed to install LiveUpdate.
The virus seems to have done the following: (1) Disabled Norton AV 2008 completely; (2) Cannot run any .exe files (3) Wireless networking is gone; regular ethernet only works in Safe Mode + Networking; (4) When the computer restarts I get a grey dialog box with a few strange characters in it but otherwise blank.
I ran Norton's online virus detection and it said I was clean. Thanks. McAfee detected something called "exploit-byteverify" but I haven't found a removal tool.
Name: XpUser4Real Date: February 29, 2008 at 13:46:37 Pacific
Reply:
If you are on high speed, not dialup, you can try safe mode with networking. You can try downloading Avast free and run it....make sure to let it do a bootscan on reboot and move everything it finds to the chest. That may clear up the problem. See how you make out and post back.
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