| Author | Comment |
Jonny23451
Ultralisk
Posted: 4 May 2005
19:00 GMT
Total Posts: 214 | Is there a way to get rid of this virus: Trojan-Spy virus that wus found? It got rid of my desktop background and popped up with a blue background with white text that looked like MSDOS text. Why did this happen? Did something in the IE go crazy? Cause it did go crazy. |
zkostik
Carrier
Posted: 4 May 2005
20:10 GMT
Total Posts: 2486 | Ahh, common spyware and trojan s**t. Get yourself AdAware and Spybot S&D, restart in safe mode, install and scan/remove all the evil progs. You may also want to update your windoze with its multitude of security patches. If you don't have an antivirus, AVG Free edition does a really good job and its a full version for free, provided you use it according to its license.
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Morgan
Ultralisk
Posted: 5 May 2005
09:04 GMT
Total Posts: 321 | As I was informed by the infamous Henrik over at ticalc, (who appears to no longer be on the active staff list) the only true way to completely get rid of a virus is by doing a reformat. He highly suggested that I do that once before doing any more connecting to ticalc.org.
If you are just looking for a temp fix you can always look up the virus on the internet and find a fix for it. That is what I used to do when I got them, then I just got FireFox and they went away! :-) |
korkow
Ultralisk
Posted: 5 May 2005
15:10 GMT
Total Posts: 465 | Ahh, yes, the "blue screen of death". Im suprsed youve never seen that before. :) |
Lunchbox
Carrier
Posted: 5 May 2005
15:17 GMT
Total Posts: 2007 | How long have you been using windows without seeing the infamous BSOD? Usually it strikes within the first year, if not the first month, of you owning windows. |
Andy
Administrator
Posted: 5 May 2005
15:23 GMT
Total Posts: 939 | Yes, classic case in Win98SE and earlier (unpatched): Start->Run, then put two device names (con, nul, com1-4, lpt1-3; best it c:\con\con) in a patch and BOOM BSOD. :) |
TI Freak
Probe
Posted: 5 May 2005
15:23 GMT
Total Posts:
Edit | I never saw it until we went from windows 98 to win 2000. I had 98 put back on my laptop because I believe it to be more stable... |
Lunchbox
Carrier
Posted: 5 May 2005
15:26 GMT
Total Posts: 2007 | I have seen it on nearly every veersion of windows known to man, and then some. |
TI Freak
Probe
Posted: 5 May 2005
16:12 GMT
Total Posts:
Edit | Well, like I said, I have never gotten that screen with 98. 2000 on the other hand, if I wasn't seeing it on a weekly basis, something was wrong. :) |
Jonny23451
Ultralisk
Posted: 5 May 2005
18:13 GMT
Total Posts: 214 | That was the first time I ever seen it. I've seen other viruses but I've never seen this one. |
Andy
Administrator
Posted: 5 May 2005
19:19 GMT
Total Posts: 939 | A virus doesn't give you a BSOD, most likely some hardware farted.
And wow, I did a crapload of typos in my last post. O_O
And TI Freak, 2000 is MUCH more stable, you were probably running stuff in it that wasn't designed for NT-based versions of Windows. NT kernel is MUCH more stable then the 9x kernel. |
zkostik
Carrier
Posted: 5 May 2005
21:46 GMT
Total Posts: 2486 | Never happened to me but I see customers with such problem in my shop every now and then. Not sure whether its a real screen or not. Could be caused as a reason of bs of windoze and installed antivirus...
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Lunchbox
Carrier
Posted: 5 May 2005
22:02 GMT
Total Posts: 2007 | Oh no, it's definetly a microsoft-based thing. It happens whenever a) A specific hardware device craps out (like andy said) b) whenever the system becomes busy or unstable and c) whenever a fatal error occurs in one of the main system processes, like systray. |
Andy
Administrator
Posted: 5 May 2005
23:20 GMT
Total Posts: 939 | No, he's saying it might be a fake BSOD... I've a screensaver which simulates a BSOD and the boot process... Looks way too real (other than the text on it is kinda obvious it's fake if you know what you're looking for). It's good enough to fool your average user. |
Lunchbox
Carrier
Posted: 6 May 2005
11:13 GMT
Total Posts: 2007 | Oh I see... |
allynfolksjr
Administrator
Posted: 6 May 2005
12:18 GMT
Total Posts: 1892 | Almost always a BSOD occurs when a poorly written piece of software tries to access the CPU directly, or if it tries to access a protected memory area. |
alex10819
Wraith
Posted: 6 May 2005
13:25 GMT
Total Posts: 507 | yeah, i had the BSOD right before i had to reformat the hard drive. i hate that... Jonny, you better hope that it isnt real... if it is, you (probably) have, as they have been saying, a hardware issue... no external floppies for you! |
