Ok, first of all i just want to say that i have tried virus scanners on this thing and they don't really find it. Maybe i'm not using the right ones ( i just downloaded some crappy free one on download.com ). Basically here's what happens:
When my computer starts up, I get a message that it is overwriting some files to a directory (c:\windows\fonts\fonz). Its a whole bunch of irc files (mirc.exe, some .ini's, and some .txt's, and some other ones). Then after that i see a mIRC window flash up on the screen then disappear. Zonealarm always detect it trying to connect to the internet, but I never really thought too much about it. I figured that it's not directly harming my computer so no big deal...
... until I got a letter from my ISP, AT&T. I don't have the letter in front of me right now so i can't tell you exactly what it said, but it was something to the effect of that i am maliciously probing other people's computers, and that there have been numerous malicious attacks coming from my ip address, and that my account would be cancelled if this continued.
I figured this must have been because of this mIRC virus type thing that I have, it must be some kind of backdoor that people are using to get into my computer and use it for stuff that they wouldn't want to be traced back to them.
Basically it comes down to this, I need to get rid of this thing, does anyone know how to do it? I could just reformat, but there must be an easier way...
When my computer starts up, I get a message that it is overwriting some files to a directory (c:\windows\fonts\fonz). Its a whole bunch of irc files (mirc.exe, some .ini's, and some .txt's, and some other ones). Then after that i see a mIRC window flash up on the screen then disappear. Zonealarm always detect it trying to connect to the internet, but I never really thought too much about it. I figured that it's not directly harming my computer so no big deal...
... until I got a letter from my ISP, AT&T. I don't have the letter in front of me right now so i can't tell you exactly what it said, but it was something to the effect of that i am maliciously probing other people's computers, and that there have been numerous malicious attacks coming from my ip address, and that my account would be cancelled if this continued.
I figured this must have been because of this mIRC virus type thing that I have, it must be some kind of backdoor that people are using to get into my computer and use it for stuff that they wouldn't want to be traced back to them.
Basically it comes down to this, I need to get rid of this thing, does anyone know how to do it? I could just reformat, but there must be an easier way...
