Talfus
~Lux Aeterna~
What do you do once your computer is infected with multiple virus'?
From what I've seen...
There's a biohazard logo as my background on desktop that reads "You may be infected!"
When I went to control panel to look around the username for the computer had change to Virus Infected.
Next to the time for the computer (bottom right) it said the time and after read "Virus Infection"
There was about 3 taskbars worth of IE windows open all over the place going to some web page antivirus 2008 xp Dont look it up if you don't know what you're doing.
After hitting alt F4 for about a hour (30 second repops, why can't xp be like that?) It calmed down and only popped up 3 at a time every 4-5 minutes.
Downloaded AVG, rand a system scan which found 17+ infections and cleaned all of them. Now it catches most of the pop ups and blocks the page from loading.
Unfortunately the background has changed to solid white. I right click the background but seems like it's a picture. going to control panel and clicking on display tells me "You system admin has disable this". Exit from control panel. Hit start, went to settings and everything but taskbar and start menu options is missing. I think I'm still infected tbh.
I got the computer from circuit city as a display model for like $200, so it didn't come with any software or I'd just format. I've tried to log off then back in as Administrator w/o a password and no dice.
Any advice? Trash it and get a new computer? lol
Only things I really want off it are my macros and music.
Rather save it if possible.
Halp :weeping01
From what I've seen...
There's a biohazard logo as my background on desktop that reads "You may be infected!"
When I went to control panel to look around the username for the computer had change to Virus Infected.
Next to the time for the computer (bottom right) it said the time and after read "Virus Infection"
There was about 3 taskbars worth of IE windows open all over the place going to some web page antivirus 2008 xp Dont look it up if you don't know what you're doing.
After hitting alt F4 for about a hour (30 second repops, why can't xp be like that?) It calmed down and only popped up 3 at a time every 4-5 minutes.
Downloaded AVG, rand a system scan which found 17+ infections and cleaned all of them. Now it catches most of the pop ups and blocks the page from loading.
Unfortunately the background has changed to solid white. I right click the background but seems like it's a picture. going to control panel and clicking on display tells me "You system admin has disable this". Exit from control panel. Hit start, went to settings and everything but taskbar and start menu options is missing. I think I'm still infected tbh.
I got the computer from circuit city as a display model for like $200, so it didn't come with any software or I'd just format. I've tried to log off then back in as Administrator w/o a password and no dice.
Any advice? Trash it and get a new computer? lol
Only things I really want off it are my macros and music.
Rather save it if possible.
Halp :weeping01