six-h
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Back in mid Feb, I discovered I was infected with "WIN32.TrojanSpy.Banker" whilst doing an "AdAware" scan.
Deleted it, and ran a deep scan with a-Squared, which found "WIN32.Processor.exe", "Riskware" that I quarantined.
Since then when booting up, all progressed normally 'till the "Welcome" screen where the music should play, and it didn't.
The desktop built strangely, and the music started half way through the build.
My antivirus download icon appeared in the sys. tray, though it was not downloading. Eventually, it disappeared, and then reappeared about ten minutes later, and downloaded "today's definitions" as normal.
Of I trotted to the "Malware Removal Forum", after several days, they referred me to the "a-Squared Forum", who poked and prodded and interogated my poor PC for a further week during which time they asked me to update Spybot (I had ver 1.4) that turned out to be a re- install, but it went well, and I then had ver1.5 with "Teatimer".
Finally they declared my PC "clean", though it was still acting a bit strange.
I then decided to swap Windows firewall for the Sunbelt one, That's when it began to kick off.
I went to the Sunbelt helpdesk and after 40 odd e-mails, they asked me to do a system report, all went well till the finalisation of the report, when it hung, and I had to "End Task".
The report was of course corrupt, Sunbelt said try in safe mode, but this was the same, and they then said there was obviously something else going on in my PC and I should get help!
Back to a-Squared.
2 more weeks of poking and prodding led to a factory re-set, …back to November 2003!!
It was a rocky road back to the present day, Install SP2, A whole herd of obstinate updates that took me 20 hrs at a stretch to encourage them all to install.
I installed AVG Free anti virus, from a disk, and attempted to talk to my router.
No chance!….10 long days without contact with the world.
Happy co-incidence, this months PC Advisor had an article in that was the answer!
Force the system to release the old IP address, and create a new one! Magic.
That was the only bit of luck I've had in 6 weeks!
At least I was back online, albeit with IE6, but then it started again, random freezes are still happening.
despite the length of this posting, (and thankyou for having the patience to read it all!) there's more, I'll post a link to the thread at a-Squared in case there is some detail there that may be helpful: -
My thread at a-Squared
(Start reading from my post of 20th February)
Because that may cause a freeze, and loose all this labouriously typed litany, I'll post this, and edit it with the link later!
six-h
Deleted it, and ran a deep scan with a-Squared, which found "WIN32.Processor.exe", "Riskware" that I quarantined.
Since then when booting up, all progressed normally 'till the "Welcome" screen where the music should play, and it didn't.
The desktop built strangely, and the music started half way through the build.
My antivirus download icon appeared in the sys. tray, though it was not downloading. Eventually, it disappeared, and then reappeared about ten minutes later, and downloaded "today's definitions" as normal.
Of I trotted to the "Malware Removal Forum", after several days, they referred me to the "a-Squared Forum", who poked and prodded and interogated my poor PC for a further week during which time they asked me to update Spybot (I had ver 1.4) that turned out to be a re- install, but it went well, and I then had ver1.5 with "Teatimer".
Finally they declared my PC "clean", though it was still acting a bit strange.
I then decided to swap Windows firewall for the Sunbelt one, That's when it began to kick off.
I went to the Sunbelt helpdesk and after 40 odd e-mails, they asked me to do a system report, all went well till the finalisation of the report, when it hung, and I had to "End Task".
The report was of course corrupt, Sunbelt said try in safe mode, but this was the same, and they then said there was obviously something else going on in my PC and I should get help!
Back to a-Squared.
2 more weeks of poking and prodding led to a factory re-set, …back to November 2003!!
It was a rocky road back to the present day, Install SP2, A whole herd of obstinate updates that took me 20 hrs at a stretch to encourage them all to install.
I installed AVG Free anti virus, from a disk, and attempted to talk to my router.
No chance!….10 long days without contact with the world.
Happy co-incidence, this months PC Advisor had an article in that was the answer!
Force the system to release the old IP address, and create a new one! Magic.
That was the only bit of luck I've had in 6 weeks!
At least I was back online, albeit with IE6, but then it started again, random freezes are still happening.
despite the length of this posting, (and thankyou for having the patience to read it all!) there's more, I'll post a link to the thread at a-Squared in case there is some detail there that may be helpful: -
My thread at a-Squared
(Start reading from my post of 20th February)
Because that may cause a freeze, and loose all this labouriously typed litany, I'll post this, and edit it with the link later!
six-h