Virus help!

mikesphat

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The other day I guess i downloaded some bad stuff off Kazaa. I was wondering why after my downloads finished,they all would say failed but I would go to My Shared Folder and they were there plus they worked. Then I checked my hdd space cuz I was suppose to have about 2gigs and i know i didnt d/l that much stuff. It was really low ,like half a gig or less. Then I go back and look again....it would be higher than it was. It was all lowering and rising eevrytime I go to look at it.

I scanned with Norton 2000 that my friend gave me which its LiveUpdate just expired like the day b4. It said i had Js.Seeker virus. It wouldnt repair it,so it quarantined it. Then I went to Symantecs site to see what to do. Deleting it was part of it but the rest of the instructions didnt pertain to me. I couldnt find the keys it was suppose to put in the registry either.

I scanned a few more times and it found nothing. My friend suggested I try Trend Micros online scanner Housecall. It found a different virus called Js_Gigger.A. This thing would tell me i had it right off the bat....b4 it even really started. (I think it found the Seeker too..i forget though) I let it finish and it said I must restart my pc to finish cleaning. I did,then I scanned again and it said i still had it This was weird cuz sometimes it would say i didnt have it then a few more tries and it would say i had it again. So I go back to Symantecs site and follow the manual instructions there and couldnt find the reg keys for Gigger either. Oh and I went back and tried Norton sometime in between finding/not finding Gigger with Housecall...it never found it and my definitions werent that old.

I went and got AVG the free virus scanner and used it once....it didnt find nothing.

So what do you think is up? Do you think it just took them a bunch of tries to finally get rid of them both or what? Were the viruses not fully activated or sumthin is that why I couldnt find the reg entries? Why would Housecall say I was clean and then the next try it said I still had Gigger? That doesnt give me much faith in these things Is Benjamin picked up by scanners too? Sorry for the long boring post. I'm gonna scan with all 3 one more time each.....see what happens. Thats 30minutes a piece,sheesh.


 

RustyNale

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Kazaa is also noted for installing spyware onto your comp, go here to download ad-aware which is a free program which detects and removes spyware programs. I would also boot with the norton av disk and run a scan from dos.
 

mikesphat

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adaware is already a friend of mine ;) im using kazaalite anyway.

norton disk? was that the rescue disk I was suppose to make and never did? :( and I dont know very much about dos ......win98 was what I started on 2 yrs ago

thx anyway
 

mikesphat

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welp just ran all virus scanners with a reboot after each with no virus detected. I hope their gone.

I was having probs the other day(after the virus') uninstalling Morpheusp,kazaa,and adaware with the add/remove programs feature. I had to use the unwise for the 2 file sharers and edit the registry to get rid of adaware. I wonder if the virus' made that a problem?

Is Benjamin able to be found by the scanners?
 

RustyNale

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Just take the nav cd, set your comp to boot from cd, and boot with cd in the cdrom drive. A screen will come up offering scan your files before the os loads. Afterwards, just take the cd out and it will boot up to the os.

Here's what Symantec has to say about Benjamin
 

mikesphat

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Doh I got Norton 2000 from my friend. He has the cd and is 2hrs away.well DAMMIT

DAMMIT! I scanned today with Housecall and it found Gigger again and then during the scan found JS_NoClose.E in my Windows\Temporary Internet Files. I scanned a 2nd time and left the room only to come back to a Blue Screen Fatal Exception Error Maybe its screwing my stuff up or that could be 98SE for you. Then I tried a 3rd and final time and finds no Gigger! Whats up with that! It found NoClose again but I cant figure out how to delete it.

Maybe Norton 2000 is old and obsolete. Im gonna be tryin 2002 soon.

Anyway can I back up my music,movies,and stuff...do u think the virus will be in any of that stuff? Cuz I guess Im gonna get XP soon and Norton 2002. Well I guess I can scan the backup cds with Norton 2002(when i get it) couldnt I?

thx
 

RustyNale

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Dude, there's some nasty stuff hitting the scene now, I'd get that NAV 2002 right now--like yesterday--and install it ASAP!! I just spent the last 3 hrs cleaning 781 copies of the w32.klez virus off their comp, repairing the damage and getting NAV installed. I was able to save all but a few files, fortunately they weren't important ones:) Yes, you could scan your music files, and NAV will try to repair them if possible.
 

mikesphat

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Damn bruh I think all virus scanners suck... atleast getting rid of these viruses. I just got Norton 2002 and it found NOTHING! Its updated and everything.