Win Worm 32 is a nasty little virus [Archive]

SSMAN

07-19-2008, 02:34 PM

Damn thing locked down my computer to all programs. Even took over admistrator rights. I could not do a restore or recovery. I had to reformat the drive and load every thing up again. Biggest pain is losing all my email contacts. Now I have my antivirus back up and going.

Tx Redneck

07-19-2008, 06:44 PM

Did you not have a current AV program at the time?

Now that you have a fresh install, you would be wise to image the drive at it's current state provided you have an external HDD.

I found this (http://www.macrium.com/ReflectFree.asp) program and it works well and is free.

SSMAN

07-20-2008, 11:07 AM

Did you not have a current AV program at the time?

Now that you have a fresh install, you would be wise to image the drive at it's current state provided you have an external HDD.

I found this (http://www.macrium.com/ReflectFree.asp) program and it works well and is free.

Thanks for the heads up. I actually bought an external hard drive a couple of monts ago. Backed up most of my stuff. My antivirus out of date by about 1 year. I just kept putting it off. Won't be doing that again.

bronco71

07-20-2008, 11:09 AM

Thanks for the heads up. I actually bought an external hard drive a couple of monts ago. Backed up most of my stuff. My antivirus out of date by about 1 year. I just kept putting it off. Won't be doing that again.

ALWAYS wear protection ;) :D

momo stallion

07-20-2008, 11:20 AM

i dont use any antivirus or antispyware shit

Tx Redneck

07-20-2008, 04:38 PM

i dont use any antivirus or antispyware shit
Linux?

ceyko

07-21-2008, 07:21 AM

Thanks for the heads up. I actually bought an external hard drive a couple of monts ago. Backed up most of my stuff. My antivirus out of date by about 1 year. I just kept putting it off. Won't be doing that again.

Would you wear an opened 1 year old condom? ( don't answer that too truthfully)

Why make your PC do it?

Poor PC.

:)

momo stallion

07-21-2008, 07:31 AM

Linux?

no, i just compute responsibly :D
im actually serious though. anytime someone brings me a computer i already know what's wrong with it before they say anything. "its gotten so slow, i think i have a virus". every computer i seem to touch is just running rampant with spyware and its literally crawling to do anything. i ask them if they have any data they need, if not i just format the SOB. i seriously have no idea where everyone goes to get all crap on their computer other than porn or myspace.

JimD

07-21-2008, 07:49 AM

I cleaned up a friends PC last night, fkn thing was crammed full of spyware shit. Then i heard them say they go to myspace alot.....figures

Tx Redneck

07-21-2008, 02:05 PM

I cleaned up a friends PC last night, fkn thing was crammed full of spyware shit. Then i heard them say they go to myspace alot.....figures

One of my friends mom went to myspace and when she went to one of her kids profile, she got a virus. Someone hacked the script to dl a trojan and wrecked her pc. It had to formatted.

Slowhand

07-21-2008, 02:08 PM

Linux?

ftw!

Although on my Vista laptop I'm running Kasperksy I.S. and it's fantastic. Whatever you do, don't even think about using Norton or McAfee; they're heavy on resources and light on stopping power.

Tx Redneck

07-21-2008, 04:10 PM

ftw!

Although on my Vista laptop I'm running Kasperksy I.S. and it's fantastic. Whatever you do, don't even think about using Norton or McAfee; they're heavy on resources and light on stopping power.

How do you like it? Does it have a firewall and parental controls? Right now I'm using Trend Micro I.S.2008 and I'm considering switching in October when it expires. I have a relatively large HDD and T.M. doesn't have the option to only scan new stuff and has been rather flakey as of late.

BottleRocket

07-22-2008, 06:10 AM

stop looking at porn

ram57ta

07-23-2008, 07:01 PM

Now that you have a fresh install, you would be wise to image the drive at it's current state provided you have an external HDD.

OR something a little less expensive if you have a DVD burner and most any recent version of NERO is to use Nero BackITup and burn a restore disc set onto DVD to fully restore the computer.

Tx Redneck

07-23-2008, 08:08 PM

OR something a little less expensive if you have a DVD burner and most any recent version of NERO is to use Nero BackITup and burn a restore disc set onto DVD to fully restore the computer.
:confused: He has an external and the app is free. :confused:

Hunt4m3x

07-23-2008, 11:11 PM

Stop looking at left handed websites.

paul_376

09-29-2008, 10:49 AM

Did you not have a current AV program at the time?

Now that you have a fresh install, you would be wise to image the drive at it's current state provided you have an external HDD.

I found this (http://www.macrium.com/ReflectFree.asp) program and it works well and is free.

hey what does that program do?