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  1. Davidp18 Davidp18 is offline

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    May 18th, 2010 (5/18/2010 12:02am)

    Friend of mine sent me an im with a link to some ringtone site, clicked on it and immed clicked off cuz got a bad feeling. Asked him a question and he stopped responding, so texted him and said it wasnt him. Fuck. Any tips on what i should do? Im runnin virus scan right now
     
  2. Deuce2High Deuce2High is offline

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    May 18th, 2010 (5/18/2010 12:35am) in reply to Davidp18

    i might look into paying a computer technician to come over and install the best virus softwares and do a sweep etc if a service like that is out there seems likely. make sure he/she knows how to find and get rid of keyloggers
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  3. Leafs4ever21 Leafs4ever21 is offline

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    May 18th, 2010 (5/18/2010 12:53am) in reply to Deuce2High

    The fact that people still click those links blows my mind.

    amazing.
     
  4. studogg76 studogg76 is offline

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    May 18th, 2010 (5/18/2010 12:55am) in reply to Leafs4ever21

     
    Originally Posted by Leafs4ever21 View Post

    The fact that people still click those links blows my mind.

    sf true
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    May 18th, 2010 (5/18/2010 12:56am) in reply to Davidp18

    Disconnect from the net via anti-virus switch or just pull/disable the connection.

    Back up any documents or files you wish to keep. Make sure you check through thoroughly as it'll be gone for good after the next step. You could copy you entire hard drive to an external drive and sort through it later.

    Format your hard drive.

    Re install all of your programs/applications etc.. This is an absolute pain in the ass but I have solution for next time (if there ever is a next time).

    Take an "image" of your machine. This is basically a copy of everything on your computer. By taking an image you can re install the image without having to re format as when you load it, it's all done in one process.

    Oh and stop clicking links sent to you in IM's

    GLGL

    P.S don't do this if you don't have your driver disks etc...
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    May 18th, 2010 (5/18/2010 12:59am) in reply to studogg76

    i got a email from my brother with some ray ban ad in it last night. Have no idea why anyone would ever be dumb enough to click an advertisement email sent from a friend that clearly they didnt send
  7. PocketHeadies PocketHeadies is offline

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    May 18th, 2010 (5/18/2010 1:31am) in reply to Davidp18

    yea one of my "old" friends who is a scammer now.....has send me an instant message the past two day in row with a link about free ipad by doing some survey or some shit, each time i insta close out

    seriously who the does still click on this shit??......
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    May 18th, 2010 (5/18/2010 1:44am) in reply to PocketHeadies

    Obv im an idiot and wasnt really paying attention. Not like it was that random tho, i talk to him on aim all the time. Right after i clicked it tho i felt like an idiot and immed clicked off it. But ya, w/e, clearly i was retarded for clicking it.
     
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    May 18th, 2010 (5/18/2010 1:47am) in reply to Davidp18

  10. xxbossmanxx xxbossmanxx is offline Plays poker like a X-Boxxx

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    May 18th, 2010 (5/18/2010 1:57am) in reply to Davidp18

    You cant get a virus by simply viewing a web page.
    If you keep clicking allow, unblock, run.exe etc. you can tho.

    If this was possible I could ship you all a virus right now since this script allows for html to run in a post.
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    May 18th, 2010 (5/18/2010 2:07am) in reply to Davidp18

    AVG anti virus, malwarebytes should do the trick. Also, do you know what virus you got? If so you can find a lot of good information on bleepingcomputers and a few others about doing some manual removal of the virus.
     
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    May 18th, 2010 (5/18/2010 2:18am) in reply to bdluss

     
    Originally Posted by bdluss View Post

    AVG anti virus, malwarebytes should do the trick. Also, do you know what virus you got? If so you can find a lot of good information on bleepingcomputers and a few others about doing some manual removal of the virus.

    This thread tilts me because it's misleading and misinformation spread by ignorance. Just what the web and viruses are all about. He wasnt sent a virus. He was sent a link. He clicked the link and now is worried about having a virus. There is no proof that one even ever existed according to the info we have now.
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    May 18th, 2010 (5/18/2010 2:25am) in reply to xxbossmanxx

    calm down bro, clearly he was sent malware of some sort, whether it is nothing but a program that mails out more fake ads for whatever reason, keylogger, spyware, one of those fake virus things, whatever it was it def was something to worry about
  14. goofy2485 goofy2485 is offline This thread sucks.

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    May 18th, 2010 (5/18/2010 3:01am) in reply to savvy

    Malwarebytes.com

    it fixes every recent problem ive had.
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    May 18th, 2010 (5/18/2010 3:09am) in reply to goofy2485

     
    Originally Posted by goofy2485 View Post


    Malwarebytes.com

    it fixes every recent problem ive had.

    This along with Spybot search and destroy, superantispyware, and eset online scanner. I usually will scan with these 4 first before I get to fixing an infected computer.
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    May 18th, 2010 (5/18/2010 3:15am) in reply to shoot2score1

     
    Originally Posted by shoot2score1 View Post


    This along with Spybot 2.0 search and destroy, superantispyware, and eset online scanner. I usually will scan with these 4 first before I get to fixing an infected computer.

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    May 18th, 2010 (5/18/2010 3:29am) in reply to xxbossmanxx

     
    Originally Posted by xxbossmanxx View Post

    You cant get a virus by simply viewing a web page.

    This is false from my experiences. I know you're a computer guy (i think) but I have encountered some web-pages while trying to stream movies/tv shows that insta download shit to your computer. No clicking "Allow" "Unblock" etc etc. Shit just bypasses everything.
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    May 19th, 2010 (5/19/2010 12:21am) in reply to xxbossmanxx

     
    Originally Posted by xxbossmanxx View Post

    This thread tilts me because it's misleading and misinformation spread by ignorance. Just what the web and viruses are all about. He wasnt sent a virus. He was sent a link. He clicked the link and now is worried about having a virus. There is no proof that one even ever existed according to the info we have now.

    So, you don't like my advice...what would yours be then?

    The person thinks he somehow got a virus, but isn't sure. Why wouldn't running those two programs be a good idea to see if he did in fact get something?
     
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    May 19th, 2010 (5/19/2010 12:23am) in reply to Phi

     
    Originally Posted by PhiAlphaMTSU View Post


    This is false from my experiences. I know you're a computer guy (i think) but I have encountered some web-pages while trying to stream movies/tv shows that insta download shit to your computer. No clicking "Allow" "Unblock" etc etc. Shit just bypasses everything.

    Same thing happened to me about 3 weeks ago, I got the avsoft virus from going to a website while trying to stream a tv show. I never clicked anything at all to download the stuff on.
     
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    May 19th, 2010 (5/19/2010 3:18pm) in reply to shoot2score1

     
    Originally Posted by shoot2score1 View Post

     
    Originally Posted by goofy2485 View Post


    Malwarebytes.com

    it fixes every recent problem ive had.

    This along with Spybot search and destroy, superantispyware, and eset online scanner. I usually will scan with these 4 first before I get to fixing an infected computer.

    You're doing way too much, unless you're browsing excessive amounts of porn.

    Malwarebytes and avast should do it all.

    Superantispyware used to be way too memory intensive, but thing may have a changed. Spybot sucks too besides a few extra utilities it has to offer, which most people wouldn't figure out how to use correctly.
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    May 19th, 2010 (5/19/2010 3:21pm) in reply to xxbossmanxx

     
    Originally Posted by xxbossmanxx View Post

    This thread tilts me because it's misleading and misinformation spread by ignorance. Just what the web and viruses are all about. He wasnt sent a virus. He was sent a link. He clicked the link and now is worried about having a virus. There is no proof that one even ever existed according to the info we have now.

    If you don't know what you clicked on, chances are you should be worried. Just because your PC isn't showing any instant reactions from clicking on the link, doesn't mean somethings not there.

    Guess he could just wait until it steals all his passwords, banking information, etc.
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