I am a new member to this forum and happy to know that there is lot
around here to learn from you guys.
I did not believe any anti virus, since I started using PCs, as I
always believed that weather or not there is an anti virus loaded on
my machine, I have to format my computer at least once in 3 months as
a routine and I have been doing this all along.
I proved myself wrong yesterday as when I opened my G.Mail, I cam
across funny things!
I am typing and my cursor is jumping all over the place
I am clicking to open the messages and they are not opening
Then a guy prompted and offered me to have a chat in Google mail
itself.
As soon as I closed his/her offer, I had wonders, my dial up
connection immediately gone, never reconnected again, I tried all
tricks, the COMPAQ has on the book (I am having legal Winxp Home by
the way). I struggled to send my important message as the guy who
hacked me was not allowing me to do anything?
On my good old Acer laptop it was very easy to restart and press F10
and you are in business but this brand new funny, glassy and stupid
COMPAQ, I could not do any thing
Please advise me on a very good and most economical All in One Anti
Virus and I promise you that I will pray for all of you in real
Please do not disappoint your new guest in you forum
"Yousaf" <yousafnoor@gmail.com> wrote in message
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This isn't necessary with NT-based systems that are reasonably maintained.
If you can't get online reliably, remove the drive and attach it to another
functioning XP system. Inexpensive USB2 drive cases are very handy for
this. Get the correct case for the drive type, SATA or IDE. Cases start
around $15.
Be sure, first, that the Antivirus on the "host" system is up-to-date.
It's a good idea to do a virus scan first as a benchmark.
Once you have the drive attached to the other host system, go to
http://housecall.trendmicro.com and scan the attached drive.
You might want to first delete on that attached drive (in order to speed up
the scan by removing many files) the content.ie5 folders in each account
(these will be rebuilt), empty the temp folders, and in the root directory
delete the one or two very large files, pagefile.sys and hiberfil.sys (that
will only be present if hibernation was enabled). Empty the recycle bin.
That may actually remove the problem files; much malware gets in via the
temporary internet files and temp folders. The pagefile and hiberfil
are removed just to speed up scanning - they are big files and take a while
to examine, and they will be rebuilt as soon as the system is restarted.
I suggest the housecall site because it's unlikely to be compromised by
anything on your system. It works pretty well and won't conflict much with
the locally installed A/V software.
You might also want to download and copy over to the hosted drive HijackThis
and ccleaner, so that you can run them without reconnecting to the network.
This method doesn't allow malware to launch, so you don't have to fight with
running malware to delete its files.
Once you have completed this, put the drive back in its system, do not
connect to the network, reboot and run ccleaner, do an A/V scan, and run
HiJackThis. Examine the log carefully and take action as required.
Don't reconnect until you are reasonably certain that the system is under
your control, but be ready to disconnect.
HTH
-pk
