ChrisHarris
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I got hit today. It was my own fault though.
I've been upgrading my hard drives, and I'm installing XP Pro on all of them, along with Norton Antivirus and Norton Internet Security. It works good, if you keep it updated. Well, these are old versions of the Symantec software (2004). I usually load it up and then go straight to Live Update and get it all current and up to date.
I didn't do that today, after adding another HDD. STUPID STUPID STUPID
I loaded all the software on the drive and went surfing. I clicked a link that took me somehwere I DID NOT want to go, and I was instanly bombarded. I jumped up and yanked the power cord out of my DSL modem, but it was too late. I got some kind of horse **** called SpyQuake.
It installed a couple programs on my 'puter that kept hassling me about spyware. How ironic is that? This thing attacked me, drilled itself in, installed itself, and then told me that I was at risk for spyware and I should purchase their software.
It totally corrupted my Internet Explorer program. It changed my home page to w-w-w DOT bestsecurity DOT com I could NOT alter my home page settings either. I tried several times, but every time I opened IE after that--it went straight to that site and would not let me navigate anywhere else.
I got mad. Downloaded Seek and Destroy. Ran it. Found 7 bad files. Was able to delete all of them except spyquake dot exe. MFers!!!!!
I went into regedit and went to local user. Got down in there and deleted a couple files related to this virus/spyware--whatever--cr@p. Still couldn't get rid of it.
Tried to update Norton products, but was getting dumped off the server--suspect it was the spyquake.
I ended up reformatting my drive--total format. Reload the whole OS, all my other drivers and software. Went straight to Symantec and updated everything. Then downloaded Malicious Software Remover from Microsoft. Downloaded Windows Defender.
Clean now--but what a waste of 6 hours.
Thats was a valuable lesson. Stupid way to learn it--but valuable.
I've been upgrading my hard drives, and I'm installing XP Pro on all of them, along with Norton Antivirus and Norton Internet Security. It works good, if you keep it updated. Well, these are old versions of the Symantec software (2004). I usually load it up and then go straight to Live Update and get it all current and up to date.
I didn't do that today, after adding another HDD. STUPID STUPID STUPID
I loaded all the software on the drive and went surfing. I clicked a link that took me somehwere I DID NOT want to go, and I was instanly bombarded. I jumped up and yanked the power cord out of my DSL modem, but it was too late. I got some kind of horse **** called SpyQuake.
It installed a couple programs on my 'puter that kept hassling me about spyware. How ironic is that? This thing attacked me, drilled itself in, installed itself, and then told me that I was at risk for spyware and I should purchase their software.
It totally corrupted my Internet Explorer program. It changed my home page to w-w-w DOT bestsecurity DOT com I could NOT alter my home page settings either. I tried several times, but every time I opened IE after that--it went straight to that site and would not let me navigate anywhere else.
I got mad. Downloaded Seek and Destroy. Ran it. Found 7 bad files. Was able to delete all of them except spyquake dot exe. MFers!!!!!
I went into regedit and went to local user. Got down in there and deleted a couple files related to this virus/spyware--whatever--cr@p. Still couldn't get rid of it.
Tried to update Norton products, but was getting dumped off the server--suspect it was the spyquake.
I ended up reformatting my drive--total format. Reload the whole OS, all my other drivers and software. Went straight to Symantec and updated everything. Then downloaded Malicious Software Remover from Microsoft. Downloaded Windows Defender.
Clean now--but what a waste of 6 hours.
Thats was a valuable lesson. Stupid way to learn it--but valuable.
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