trojans and malware

[tet1953]

I agree..sometimes you just gotta bite the bullet and reinstall. What I have done in the past is use an external hard drive to just copy everything on C:, or almost everything, so I don't have to spend time deciding which files are importand etc. Drives are pretty cheap now.
Then, depending on make/model of PC, there may be an install partition on your drive where the original factory install is available to be reinstalled. You might also have a diagnostics partition.

 

[woodsmaneh!]

the redirect has corrupted your boot files you need to reinstall them

http://redirectvirus.org/ for google.

Micro Soft has

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/ie/forum/ie8-windows_other/explorer-redirect-spyware-or-virus/847499fa-96bf-4dd6-b3d7-9206ada0b96f

 

[Capt. Stickyfingers]

Have you tried running a scan in safe mode?

 

[Airwave]

System restore.

I haven't read this thread, so yes, somebody might have said this already.

 

[skunkpunk13]

System restore.

I haven't read this thread, so yes, somebody might have said this already.

the malware disabled system restore so when i try and the computer reboots it says unable to complete system restore

 

[skunkpunk13]

Have you tried running a scan in safe mode?

yeah ive tried in safe mode and the scan still stops once it finds the virus

 

[RavenMochi]

Well i hope not ive herd if you upgrade your operating system you can get rid of all virus's and malware and shit

First, Erase your hard drive. I'm talking all the way to deleting and recreating your partitions. Delete them first. Then shut it down, open up the computer and take out the bios battery, will look like a watch battery, take it out for a minute solid, while your at it pull out the memory to. Then put it all back in. Recreate your partition, reinstall. Its not working because your already infected.

 

[Jack Harer]

Did you boot into "safe mode" with or without networking? I'm assuming you have windows, so try "Microsofts malicious software removal tool". Google that exact phrase. You need to be in safe mode without networking. Malwarebytes is pretty damn good for most everything I've run across.

 

[RavenMochi]

I agree..sometimes you just gotta bite the bullet and reinstall. What I have done in the past is use an external hard drive to just copy everything on C:, or almost everything, so I don't have to spend time deciding which files are importand etc. Drives are pretty cheap now.
Then, depending on make/model of PC, there may be an install partition on your drive where the original factory install is available to be reinstalled. You might also have a diagnostics partition.

Have to be careful with that, and scan the backup drive as a slave before you even copy over anything, or you could just be re inviting it right back on to your system.

 

[THENUMBER1022]

all that "spyware/malware/infectaware" shit is virus's. people are so paranoid about the possibility of getting a virus, they will search high and low for an anti-virus, and end up with the virus they've always wanted.

If you can't recover, when you get a new disc of your OS, it will ask you if you'd like to repair your current OS or delete and replace it. Like raven said, pull out that battery and reinstall that shit.

 

[Jack Harer]

Anything you back up is a risk for reinfection once you restore that back-up. Nuking the hard drive and re-installing is a LAST RESORT. If it DOES come to that, may I suggest you go with Ubuntu Linux? It's way faster than windows, more secure, and has way fewer viruses written for it. And did I mention, it's FREE? Try the Avast, and AVG together in safe mode w/o networking.

 

[mantiszn]

apple..... mac.....

 

[skunkpunk13]

so last night i ran avast bootscan and that seemd to work i ran it twice it and it found nothing he second time then this morning i ran supernatimalware aain and it completed it scan and found a couple things that got quarantined so i believe everything is back to normal lol thanks for all ur help