Author: Jonas Bylund
Date: 12:49:52 09/20/03
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On September 20, 2003 at 15:09:37, David Mays wrote: >Two days ago I opened an attachment from what I thought was Microsoft update >patch, since i have been in living hell trying to get rid of it, first the virus >completely destroyed Norton Internet security, when I try to access Norton I get >a phony error exception message, I noticed that suddenly my outlook express went >haywire and started randomly mailing to who I don't know. Eventually I was able >to uninstall norton security and reinstall, I then ran the virus scan which >detected 9 virus which have been cleaned from the system, the damaged to my >system that I can so far see is that I have this daily Adult movies pORN iCON ON >MY dESKTOP, i HAVE RAN Adware removal about twenty times but the Same 182 bugs >found keep reappearing even after i delete them, I discovered they magically >appear whenever i start up internet explorer, i do a rescan and the same 182 >bugs that were there before come back. Also I no longer have access to System >Restore, whenever i try to access it the area is completely missing from the box >it should be at and I get an error message. Also I cannot even run Regedit from >the Startup button. Therefore I cannot even execute the number 1 instructtion >on the norton site for removal, which is to turn off system restore. I know >this is not the forum for this question but I saw some post from mike byrne he >seemed to have the same problem, also i have been getting dozens of emails from >microsoft with the virus attached, Help please!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You should go to http://www.webroot.com and download the free version of spysweeper, that checks the regestries as well as removing the addware, it is a great program for this kind of job. Jonas
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