GenderLife Forum: The Information Exchange

Well, looks like I did it.

I write-protected all the EXEs and DLLs and then deleted or replaced by clean versions the ones that were called at bootup (by Winlogon) when they shouldn't have been called.

Cleaned the registry by hand (which is a bitch) and made sure that there were no autoloading calls in the Autoruns (which was easy) and, after Killboxing things a dozen times, it seems to be clean.

Cross my fingers.

Woo! I am extremely impressed by your worm squashing abilities. I didn't think you could save Windows like that, but I guess you can!

Now stay away from warez sites.

Warez??? What warez???

Actually, it's movies. Can't get the versions in Spanish around here, only English and French, and I don't order online because of credit card paranoia.

Since my mom only understands Spanish and Italian, I have to get copies in those languages for her to watch, when I want her to see a movie (that I own in English or French, but she cannot understand those).

Sucks, no?

Why don"t you just redo the movies that you have in English and French by adding subtitles to the movies in Spanish and Italian?

Because my mom is over 70 and has poor vision, now. She enjoys the movies better if she can focus on the action, instead of having to read the subs.

Otherwise, ripping the DVDs I have, adding the subs with Subtitle Workshop and burning it again takes about the same in total.

Stinky
At least Pan's Labyrinth would have been easy!

Download MalwareBytes:

http://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam.php

It will have to reboot to fix it. And try to stay away from sites that load java. And use newsgroups for movie stuff. Safer.

If you use Firefox, get the NoScript add-on. You have to give permission for sites to use JavaScript, but it's amazing how many useless extraneous scripts you can find on even a regular Web page.

Oh and one more thing.......

You need to go into "My Computer" and turn off the automatic System Restore. Of course if you have a power outtage while you're removing the thing your fucked. But you see windows makes a registry backup of your last logon or boot. So if this thing is there you must prevent windows from having access to that.

Then boot in safe mode and remove the virus. or worm. or whatever. Empty the trash just in case.

Then if you feel lucky, you can use the power switch on the back of your computer. Then repower and hard boot. Note you can lose a lot of crap this way, but then looking at your system, I don't see a downside.

If that doesn't work take it to a computer repair shop and have them remove it for you.

Get a decent anti-virus anti-spyware program like Vipre.