Members mchunter Posted June 30, 2011 Members Posted June 30, 2011 Or were you just being facetious jdmidwest? I couldn't see your smiley very well on my iPhone until I zoomed in! Sorry, like I said, can't use my pc, so I'm having to use the phone. Thanks. MCHUNTER
ness Posted June 30, 2011 Posted June 30, 2011 Another thing: Just because this thing pops up when you come to OA doesn't necessarily mean it came from OA. If you Google "Windows XP Repair virus", there's a lot of recent activity -- it seems to be giving a lot of people fits right now. John
eric1978 Posted June 30, 2011 Posted June 30, 2011 My home PC puked the internet driver while opening my PM folder on OAF. May not be connected to this issue at all....but figured Id throw that out there just in case. (I know nothing about crap like this). I swapped modems because it was saying that the computer couldn't communicate with it, and now ATT support claims that the driver ( which supposedly can't be deleted) is mysteriously gone. It is/was XP. IE. I hate computers when they do stuff like this. Same exact thing happened to mine. Was going to cost more to repair than the PC was worth. That computer is now in the garbage.
Members mchunter Posted June 30, 2011 Members Posted June 30, 2011 Ness, I have to conclude that it is coming from this site, because it only happens when I go to this site. As I said before I waited a few weeks to come back to here on my pc, during which time I was on the Internet a lot and when I was brave enough to try it again it happened as soon as the site began downloading. I have not had this problem on any other site. I am not griping or anything, just letting admin know, because this "is" where I am getting it, no question about it. That is the reason I am afraid to try it on my home pc Eric. Thanks. MCHUNTER
ness Posted June 30, 2011 Posted June 30, 2011 I do see where you're coming from. It could be triggered by OA software or ads or whatever, but likely didn't/doesn't come from OA or I'd expect lots of folks to get it too. It's a widely reported virus and there seem to be lots of people talking about how to clean it off. I'd probably look into that. I don't remember if you mentioned it -- do you have up-to-date antivirus software? John
Members mchunter Posted June 30, 2011 Members Posted June 30, 2011 Yes, as far as I know. My place of employment keeps everything up to date, although I couldn't tell you what it is, because they take care of all that. I will admit I am not too computer savvy, so I don't understand why this only happens when I log onto this site? MCHUNTER
Members mchunter Posted June 30, 2011 Members Posted June 30, 2011 Also, I have been a member since last year and never had a problem until recently. MCHUNTER
jdmidwest Posted July 1, 2011 Posted July 1, 2011 There have been several pieces of malware running around in the last year that pops up and says your computer is infected and installs a fake antivirus or repair tool. Ahout the only way to defeat it is to start in safe mode and run a cleaner or zap it with a boot disk or usb drive. One handy tool I use comes from this website called Combofix, My Bleeping Computer. . There are several boot iso files from Kasperskylab and Dr Web Cure it that create boot cd's with a linux shell that will let you remove viruses, delete autoruns, and fix mbr's that have been damaged. You really should not have to toss your computer. If all else fails, fdisk and format the drive and reinstall Windows and programs and you should be back to day one when you bought the computer. "Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously." — Hunter S. Thompson
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