Windows Defender

[Big Kahuna]

Got the wife a new laptop for xmas.

The other night I grabbed the old one and when I turned it own it had a pop up "2010 Windows Defender has detected multiple Attacks" or something along those lines. Did a little research and it looks like a nasty Virus is what it really is.

Any Advice?

 

[tom21]

stop looking at porn on the net.:dunno:

 

[sflsurfrider]

wow... this thread is too easy....

ill just restrain myself and click elsewhere now....

 

[Big Kahuna]

stop looking at porn on the net.:dunno:

lol

 

[tom21]

I had that same thing once and it took quite a bit of doing to remove it. to this day I am not convinced its gone. I have this weird thing where if I scroll a page and stop a few seconds later it move down a line or two. never used to do that. sigh its just crappy, I wish all kinds of bad things on the little s that make this stuff and send it out. hope they choke on vomit and nearly die everyday!

 

[AtomicPunk]

def sounds fishy... there is no "2010 Windows Defender" (just Windows Defender)....

EVERYONE, new PC or not, make sure you have up to date antivirus and antispyware...

There is decent FREE stuff out there.

 

[tom21]

how much for the free stuff?:scratchchin:

 

[Big Kahuna]

def sounds fishy... there is no "2010 Windows Defender" (just Windows Defender)....

EVERYONE, new PC or not, make sure you have up to date antivirus and antispyware...

There is decent FREE stuff out there.

It had up to date protection. What we found is this virus comes in and turns off your protection. Anita was on it the other day and looked and saw that McAfee was not running, turned it back on, later on she saw that it was off again, ran a scan, everything was clean. BAM. That is what it does.

 

[MADMAT]

Yea those are a biatch to get rid of...fake or replica "software". Remove the drive and convert it to USB and plug it in to another machine and back up your important files and then blast it will everything.....Your anti-virus program,malware bytes, spybot S&D, and then boot to it and run panda root kit detector. And then install and spybot S&D and immunize the system. Then install and run CCleaner.

That usually works but not always.

 

[Big Kahuna]

yea those are a biatch to get rid of...fake or replica "software". Remove the drive and convert it to usb and plug it in to another machine and back up your important files and then blast it will everything.....your anti-virus program,malware bytes, spybot s&d, and then boot to it and run panda root kit detector. And then install and spybot s&d and immunize the system. Then install and run ccleaner.

That usually works but not always.

uh?

 

[MADMAT]

One of them mimics AVG except the colors are off. Norton flat out gets infected by this type and then you have to dload Nortons uninstall tool and run it. And then reinstall Norton.

 

[MADMAT]

I use this one daily.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...32002&cm_re=ide_to_usb-_-12-232-002-_-Product

Converts all drives to USB (lappy, internal desktop IDE or SATA)...then you plug it in to your good computer and scan it with everything.

 

[Big Kahuna]

No Idea what AVG is.

So, you copy all your files from your hardrive to the USB device then load the infected files back to a good computer and scan it. Wont that cause the good machine to get infected also?

 

[AtomicPunk]

Try System Restore first.. pick a restore point at least several days before you noticed a problem. It will not affect any documents, pictures, music etc....

 

[SuperJETT]

No Idea what AVG is.

So, you copy all your files from your hardrive to the USB device then load the infected files back to a good computer and scan it. Wont that cause the good machine to get infected also?

No, you go to a good computer, plug the hard-drive-to-usb adapter in to it with your 'bad' hard drive attached, it will show up as an external hard drive which you can then scan with antivirus/anti-spyware/malware software to repair it.

AVG is a good free antivirus, I'd remove McAfee and install AVG myself. I used to use McAfee for our company but recently switched to ESET.

I'm doing this as I type to a laptop.

 

[SuperJETT]

Try System Restore first.. pick a restore point at least several days before you noticed a problem. It will not affect any documents, pictures, music etc....

Not recommended, I've never had good luck with system restore.

 

[MADMAT]

Yea just get your important files (not potentially infected programs) and copy paste them in to a folder on your good machine....and then scan that folder for viruses just for the heck of it....prolly nothing in files only though.

 

[MADMAT]

Not recommended, I've never had good luck with system restore.

Yea me neither....and running chkdsk on the hard drive in question seems to pizz it off too.

Just hit it with anti-virus (AVG is a free one I use sometimes) and the other programs mentioned and it should work....usually.:aargh4:

 

[Big Kahuna]

Yea just get your important files (not potentially infected programs) and copy paste them in to a folder on your good machine....and then scan that folder for viruses just for the heck of it....prolly nothing in files only though.

I have a 4g jump drive, could I use that to get the files off or do I need that USB adapter?

Have not tried to get back on and see where all I can navigate.

 

[SuperJETT]

You don't transfer your files, you hook your hard drive up to the usb adapter, then plug it into a good computer to scan it.