Important: to ensure yer computer is secure - Spyware, virus, and adware removal

[illfusion]

[quoteost_uid0="Resident Evil"]do this illfusion,it might help:
-clean ur cache
-clean ur history
-clean ur cookies
-clean ur temp files
-reset ur homepage ( go to internet options and click use blank.[/quote]
k i'll try.

thanks

[RyusRevenge]

illfusion u have the same virus as me, its called "trojan startpage Q", its undeletable, u can go to control panel and internet options and reset web settings, but it will not stop the virus, it will take like 5 minutes for it to happen again. the only advice i can give u is to look up the virus on the internet and look for a antivirus, like karma said, but i looked and havent seen anything yet, looks like u maybe have to reformat.

[illfusion]

[quoteost_uid0="RyusRevenge"][/quote]
poop are you serious? what else can the virus do? will it crash my comp?

[Resident Evil]

...anyways to find out what the virus does, search for it here

onces u find it go down and it will tell u what to do, to get rid of it manually...

[marvel911]

[color=purpleost_uid14]Hey alright a pop-up blocker that works..[/colorost_uid14]

[SSJKarma]

Sorry to to disappoint you VIPER, viruses, and its been proven, cannot be in any files that aren't executable !

MUSIC, VIDEO, TEXT, DOCS, PDFs and basically all those things cannot have viruses !

EMBEDDING for once cannot be used to start up a virus !
and, in your CACHE, it is downloaded, but it is useless ! the only thing that can start up a virus are EXECUTABLES, and like i said, EXECUTABLE PROGRAMS cannot be hidden on things that are not meant to be PROGRAMS ! which cancels all the things you metnionned !

those holes do happens, but they are in WINDOWS itself, and in your SOFTWARE, that's why they say its good to UPDATE with what we call CRITICAL SECURITY HOLES !

but again, there is no way for any programmers out there to make a MP3 file to be a PROGRAM itself, this cannot be !

example:
you fuse your virus into an MP3... yes it is possible, but once ont he person's computer, playing it will result in an ERROR at LOADING time which will stop the process right away, without any codes to actually be EXECUTED !

which means no infection !
so like i said, nothing, really nothing taken from internet can be runned on your machine without your consent ! the embed thing, it didn't work on me at all... why, because i was using EXPLORER which can only take the BGSOUND thing, it cannot use EMBED, but even tho you used it, netscape user wouldn't have gotten any virus by it. you can't play a music which is in fact a program, the above error will happen and it will stop !

look around the net and see for yourself, how many MUSIC file or TXT files can be virus, you'll see none, so tell yourself that if it was possible, it would have hapenned a lot of times, whch it never did !

again, only EXECUTABLE FILES can be a virus !

[Bob~Marley4004]

TO PPL WHO USE AIM!!

ppl who use aim i want to inform u that if a buddy has ..I CANT BELIEVE I FOUND(UR SCREEN-NAME) here..

DO NOT CLICK IT..it can affected ur pc and it might crash..its call a Trojan Virus..

[viper2040]

gah, its been a while, aint it?

ssjkarma--you hear of the blaster worm? On my campus, i got to see the bugger in action--it was infecting files like crazy...the virus' location? crazy "emails" saved to disk--it would create files called stuff like "1001 ways to save money.xml"...you didnt have to execute em, or anything.

Why do you think virus checkers check EVERY file, and not just exes?

viruses can also be written in vbs, bat, and pif files...

Ive had run ins with virus infected movies, and pictures...

[SSJKarma]

well... again !

The blaster WORM is a virus using some SECURITY HOLE in WINDOWS all versions except WinME !
it provokes INSTABILITY and can at the right moments give full control over your machine to some hackers, yet again, this virus doesn't work against machine who has the RPC patched like microsoft has said it. and believe me, it does nothing if you are patched !

so again, a virus cannot autoexecute itself, ya gotta start it !
BAT files must be executed to be activated, same goes for VBS which are actually VISUAL BASIC files. they do not run by themselves. and PIF are SHORTCUTS made by windows to run programs at place by another place ! they do not run all by themselves !

so like i said...
don't start or accept anythings suspisous that you wouldn't take and believe me, you will not be infected by anything !

also, check for the size of the things, a virus is by definition a program... a program is in no case a valid musics or anything. musics, ascii chars and the likes cannot make a program.

if you got infected by a virus which was in a music file, then right int he beginning, it wasn't a music file at all !

if the ANTI-VIRUS checks each files like that, it is to find th evirus before you actually clicks it, because once you ran it it is already too late. so they got to warn you before you run the file !

and as far as i am concern, ANTI-VIRUS softwares are just too damn dumb to be any use !
example:
NORTON ANTI-VIRUS, at the maximum security level, it see's itself as a virus !

conclusion:
VIRUSes are a threat yeah, that i don't disagree with. but NO they aren't VIRUSes until they got started by the user in front of the computer !

you know, technicians around the globe have a code called for this...

its CODE19 which stands for 19 inches which is the basic distance between the user and the computer !

that means that the user is actually the one not taking care fo the machine in front of him. the machine never does anything by itself, it is always obeying the user who controls it !

[MrPegasus88]

I have Adware 6.0 by lavasoft and it really does get rid of everything I had like about 100 adware stuff on my computer and I got rid of it using the adware software. The only thing am consern about is something called a tracking cookie I don't know what it does but do those softwares viper said do they get rid of tracking cookie I know most of you guys probaly may of saw it on you guys computer before. Because everytime I go to websites a message appears saying we can detect you have spyware and tracking system installed on your machine is this really a message or is it fake. You guys may of seen this message before.



Edited By MrPegasus88 on Feb. 10 2004 at 20:13