E-mail problem

[LoneStrider]

today im using the family computer, which is shared by 5 different accounts. i heard from a teacher (!!) at my school, that my brother is sending email viruses. as i know my brother, he can't tell the difference between poo and piss, so let alone know he's sending viruses. i investigated, and found out that my virusscanner contineusly scans email's. he NEVER ever done this before. i want it gone, cuz im sending mails RIGHT now, with the subject 'im in love' 'gutted' 'male enhancement' and so on. how??


please help me!

Sounds like you have been infected with a worm.

To successfully remove worms I recommend you get yourself a good free anti-virus program. I use the free home edition from http://www.avast.com. Do a full scan and I mean a FULL SCAN. this may take a long time, but it is worth it. Avast also comes with a P2P and E-Mail scanner.

Also boot into safemode and run an adware tool such as adware 6.0, Hitman Pro or Spybot: Search & Destroy.

Also go into HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\MICROSOFT\WINDOWS\CURR ENT VERSION\RUN and remove any suspect programs. Do the same for HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\MICROSOFT\WINDOWS\CURRE NT VERSION\RUN. Or you could run msconfig and have a look through that.

The best way to see whats running is to look at the running processes via the task manager (CTRL-ALT-DEL), but you will need some knowledge of running services beforehand.

[LoneStrider]

im writing this while avast is running the scanner, and im shocked. i mean, really shocked. it found 10 virus infections in 10 minutes, along with one virus in my memoryprocess ! 10! im gonna pwn my brother and sister... they fokked up my comp. im well aware of spyware, and made sure everything was clean. i didn't care about viruses, because i thought my current virus scanner was the best there is (Panda Titanium antivirus). nope it isn't. damn the thing. heey, we got another virus! im getting messages while im typing. this is unheard of. i think im.....goddamn! another one! and another!....gonna format this comp...its doomed.

i thank you for pointing me to the REAL antivirus. it works like any other virusscanner should. im scanning my computer for full, and then formatting it. thank god i bought my own pc, and its clean.


*edit* omg! omfg! the program showed which files were infected, and when i looked better it said one of the files was this:

c:/Program files/Panda Software/Panda Antivirus Titanium/pavdll.dll

my fokking antivirus is friggin infected!
goddamn those viruses!

Originally posted by --Tha Patriot--@Jan 11 2005, 04:47 AM
im writing this while avast is running the scanner, and im shocked. i mean, really shocked. it found 10 virus infections in 10 minutes, along with one virus in my memoryprocess ! 10! im gonna pwn my brother and sister... they fokked up my comp. im well aware of spyware, and made sure everything was clean. i didn't care about viruses, because i thought my current virus scanner was the best there is (Panda Titanium antivirus). nope it isn't. damn the thing. heey, we got another virus! im getting messages while im typing. this is unheard of. i think im.....goddamn! another one! and another!....gonna format this comp...its doomed.

i thank you for pointing me to the REAL antivirus. it works like any other virusscanner should. im scanning my computer for full, and then formatting it. thank god i bought my own pc, and its clean.


*edit* omg! omfg! the program showed which files were infected, and when i looked better it said one of the files was this:

c:/Program files/Panda Software/Panda Antivirus Titanium/pavdll.dll

my fokking antivirus is friggin infected!
goddamn those viruses!

Ha ha ha! Been there a million times at work m8!

No need to format if you clean it well enough...

Clean it of viruses and install hitman pro like I said. Put up a firewall and you should be ok. Maybe run a defrag aswell. Formatting is a pain in the arse, especially with all the updates you have to put on.

Trust me, its my job!