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Antivirus 2009 infection

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  • Started 2 months ago by harryhott
  • Latest reply from raphoenix
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harryhott
Posts: 2

Hi friends,

I am using windows vista home premium 32 bit at dell inspiron1525 laptop.. Yesterday i suddenly got Antivirus 2009 ad and window on my laptop. It automatically installed on my laptop. I removed from control panel, deleted the folders from start up and program files, i scanned my system with spyware doctor 5.5 which showed 39 infections i deleted the same. I am using Bit defender antivirus 2008. But now though i have get ridden of the popups and alerts of Antivirus 2009, But system has become unresponsive, It gets started But if i right click on desktop to refresh or try to open any prgramme or My computer or window it initially gets hanged and responds after 10-15 mins. I tried to again scan with Bit Defender and spyware Doctor But the scan spped was too low, even after 6 hrs continuous scan Bit defender only scanned 4000 files and spyware doctor scanned 22% and was almost scanning 1 file in 15 mins. My internet connection does not work after installing Spyware doctor so i cannot keep in my system after use...

What should i do? IS there any virus now in my syatem, how should i remove i and gain the speed as ususal.

Posted 2 months ago #
 
Lighthouse
Lighthouse
Posts: 5574

Can you get back to a "Restore Point" from before the infection?

Posted 2 months ago #
 
whs
whs
Posts: 6322

There is a very high probability that BitDefender and Spyware Doctor don't get along with each other. I recommend to uninstall Spyware Doctor which I found to be of little use and very messy. Then I would do a scan with SuperAntiSpyware and/or what Lighthouse suggested.

Posted 2 months ago #
 
raphoenix
raphoenix
Posts: 2469

@LH & whs,

How much good is going back to a Restore Point at disinfecting a computer from a virus or from spyware ????
A restore point only changes a small part of a computer's configuration and really doesn't load back in the complete registry or critical O/S files I thought?? but could be wrong since I've never used that feature.

I just normally Ghost a Clean image back on the partition which (ensures) a Clean Start-Over in less than 10 minutes.

Kindest Regards,
Rick P. ♥ :)

Posted 2 months ago #
 
Bartman
Bartman
Posts: 351

This might help: http://www.bleepingcomputer.co.....virus-2009

Posted 2 months ago #
 
whs
whs
Posts: 6322

@Rick, supposedly going back to a restore point has the same effect as going back to a ghost image. I also prefer Ghost, but not everybody has that program or equivalent facilities. Then a system restore is the next best solution.

@Bartman, The poster does not really have a virus. He has residual parts of an uninstalled program that might put a monkey wrench into his system. I think the problem here is, that the Windows uninstaller does not do such a great job. That's why so many people use Revo or special uninstallers as for e.g. Norton or McAfee.

Posted 2 months ago #
 
raphoenix
raphoenix
Posts: 2469

@whs,

I guess folks would be amazed if they knew how much grief could be alleviated by a $10 buck Floppy Disk Drive and an old 2002 Ghost PE floppy boot disk.

Talk about "cheap" solutions for many, many problems, this takes the prize (LOL) (LOL).

Even a "cheap" bootable UBS stick with a few free utilities on it would probably help fix over half the problems folks have with Vista or XP.

Kindest Regards,
Rick P. ♥ :)

Posted 2 months ago #
 
whs
whs
Posts: 6322

Rick, I see what you are saying but with this strategy you have to anticipate all kinds of possible situations. I prefer to have multiple PC's so that I can create a custom solution when a problem arises. It is unlikely that all my PC's give up at the same time. And then I rely on Norton Ghost. That is the ultimate.

Posted 2 months ago #
 
raphoenix
raphoenix
Posts: 2469

@whs,

Oh I agree.

This machine is so garbaged up from installing, UN-installing and simulating that it beginning to lock up a bit today when I have many windows opened searching and so forth.

Going to HAVE to re-image for tomorrow as I don't think it will go but for another (6) hours are so.

All those (manual) registry cleanups are beginning to show. (LOL) (LOL).

Kindest Regards,
Rick P. ♥ :)

Posted 2 months ago #
 

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