Ah crap I have a virus!!!

[EmoshBZ]

I have a win 2k professional user who's task manager is eerily disabled. If you ctrl-alt-del, and choose task manager, it doesn't say anything, it just disappears. It shows 100% cpu utilization then disappears.

If I try to enter regedit the window disappears as well!! So I can't enter the registry I ran AVG anti virus scan and nothing shows up.

THis juts happened like 10 minutes ago.....must be a virus!!! help!!

 

[n0cmonkey]

Try those things from safe mode.

Maybe try one of the online anti-virus scans.

 

[drag]

You can try the trinity rescue disk

It's a linux cdrom bootdisk that includes apps to help rescue computers in distress.

For instance it can reset windows passwords.

Another feature is that it can do virus scans.

It uses a free (only in terms of cost for home use only) f-prot virus scanner. It tries to download the latest definintions when you use the virusscan script.


I never used trinity myself, but I've used f-prot and that's a decent scanner and the download is only 22 megs, and 49 megs unzipped. Burn that to a cdrom, boot up with it. Then you have some command line stuff to do.

If you have a dhcp server it should configure the network automaticly. If not there is some Docs here to help you

Then you just run the mountallfs and then the virusscan scripts and that should detect a virus on your windows stuff.

It won't dissinfect them, though. But maybe it can give you a idea what to look for. Once you find them you can probably boot up in windows, delete them or extract replacement files from you i386 folder on your cdrom or disk if they are infected system files.

 

[Algere]

Safe Mode as suggested above and see if there are any files in your startup list(i.e. msconfig)that shouldn't be there.

 

[buckmasterson]

Don't know if this link will work, so it's posted below also...

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http://www.mvps.org/sramesh2k/ToolsQuit.htm

 

[Abzstrak]

download and run McAfee's stinger in safemode... you can also run trendmicro's free online scanner, I'd trust both more than AVG