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On Sun, 12 Oct 2008 10:30:33 -0300, "Jim Holsenback" <jho### [at] hotmail com>
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>"Stephen" <mcavoysAT@aolDOTcom> wrote in message
>news:fmr3f4t2luq77fjduhqusgdlju8da62p1j@4ax.com...
>> Me too (yesterday) but I've seen it before and didn't believe it. I've got
>> confidence in AVG and its Resident Shield. That program has caught quite a
>> few
>> nasties in its time even as they are being downloaded.
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>I didn't believe it at first as I've seen these types of things before, but
>for some reason my instincts thought otherwise .... better safe than sorry
>right?
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Right! Better safe than sorry.
The give-away with this scam was the popup would not close by clicking the red
cross. I was loath to click the "cancel", Ctrl + W did not work so I just
re-booted. Then ran AVG.
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Regards
Stephen
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Jim Holsenback wrote:
> "Orchid XP v8" <voi### [at] dev null> wrote in message
> Here's a meta-question: what makes you think you're infected?
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> Wondering if that loosely describes
> Sam's notion that his system has become infected.
Ok, here's story. Yesterday I was looking up news about Nigeria. I want
to stay updated on things over there. I found a website detailing many
oil news stories from the Delta region. Suddenly a pop-up dialog asks me
a question. For some reason, in my haste, I said "ok" to it. I don't
know why I did this, I usually have FireFox ask me about cookies, and I
usually never say yes. Well, right after I accepted whatever the hell it
was, I got a bad feeling about it. Then another one came up--and I swear
I wasn't seeing things--it had the word trojan in it (I didn't answer
yes to that one). So of course I'm panicking by this time, and proceed
to disconnect myself from the 'net. I'm running XP here so I went to the
task bar and tried to open up Task Manager, to see what's running. It
was grayed out. So I reboot my computer and check for TM. Still grayed
out! I go to open in manually, and it says an administrator had disabled
it. Well, I'm the administrator here! I find a website telling me how to
enable it again, and succeed there. But then, without warning of any
kind, my computer shuts itself off! "Windows is saving your settngs..."
I turned it back on and restore my system to what it was on the 9th. No
problem for the rest of yesterday, until I was playing games, switching
between full-screen mode and my desktop. The desktop image went away,
and the icons were are transparent with tiny arrows indicating that they
are shortcuts. The text was still there. I thought maybe it was because
I was stressing out the way Windows handles the desktop, switching
between resolutions like that. Well, today everything seems fine, except
that the icons representing folders now have that generic
corner-curled-page thing with window graphic. Nothing else seems amiss,
only these odd icons.
I'll have to try Stinger first, and then download a larger AV app when I
have time. I wish the AV programs were smaller, since I am on a very
slow dial connection here.
Sam
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I tried Stinger, and it did not report about any possible infections. It
just told me how many clean files I had.
There was a problem with all my folders; they did not behave normally.
Every time I tried to open one, Windows would try to perform a search
within that directory. I solved that. I also fixed the incorrect icon
display. Gimp is nearly gone, and I cannot uninstall it completely.
So far there are no other problems occurring. I have this terrible
feeling that something is working behind the scenes, changing basic
Windows functions. I'll see how it goes...
Sam
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"stbenge" <THI### [at] hotmail com> wrote in message
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>I tried Stinger, and it did not report about any possible infections. It
>just told me how many clean files I had.
Well if Stinger says you're OK you're probably OK .... I'm no windoze expert
but I've found that sometimes there is fallout when you roll back the system
configuration. In the past I've worked through minor, but annoying issue's
like your task manager problem. It seems like it ALWAYS ends up being some
kind of registry issue that after a week or so and some research those
problems get resolved. Good Luck!
Jim
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