So I think I have a virus right now!!

plastick

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ok im about to re-install XP to fix it, not a big deal... I rarely EVER have to deal with virus's because I am a relativly smart user, but I'm not sure how I got infected.

Symptoms: The wierdest thing is that when I go to facebook.com, I get a virus pop up and it redirects to another site and trys to download crap and all that. Also, when I go to google.com to search something, all the links end up going to weird add sites... buch of gay stuff. Oh, also, Firefox stopped working, completely.

Does this sound familiar to anyone?
 

ChAoTiCpInOy

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Something that got installed on your computer and started causing this. It would be best to just reinstall Windows and make sure you are protected well.
 

plastick

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Can you go to facebook.com for me and see if the site has been hacked? Thats the only URL that when I go to things get kRazy.

Yeah, recently I did a lot of different things, for example, I logged on to a friends ftp server and I also been playing a ton of COD4 on various servers. Hopefully I find out what so I dont get it again.
 

plastick

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i reinstalled.... i think that makes XP reinstall session # 58

virus gone. im dumbass