Community archive

Ask something
Discussion Locked

Success !!

0 helpful
3 replies

by gbrownlee

Closed to new repliesThis discussion is closed. It stays readable, but it takes no new replies.

After spending an inordinate amount of time trying to "permanently" rid my system of a virus, I can atlast claim a victory. Virus dialer.8.u proved to be a bit of a pig to get rid of, but my system has remained uninfected for 48 hours now.

Shameless plug: The only virus checker that would find the virus was AVG. It would remove the infection and my system would be clean for 24 hrs, but I would become infected within 5 minutes of being online the next day.

It didn.t take long till I realized that it would be easiest to wipe my HDD. I decided to use this as a learning opportunity and indeed it has been one.

I now have more software on my system than you can shake a stick at. I also tried all sorts of free online scans with mixed results.

I followed leads provided by my peers, google and information the virus itself provided.

I became comfortable editing the registry very fast, because I had nothing to lose. But this was one of the tools that I had to use to finally get rid of this malicious piece of software.

I also learned alot about active x controls, and therein lay the answer. What I did was set my Internet Security to high and that closed off my system vulnerability. This of course made the function of some websites improper, eg: I was unable to download from Grisoft or Hotmail. Simple solution, change my settings for these 2 sites.

Once again, many thanks to those who provided input regarding this problem.

Regards
Greg

3 replies

by oz_media

Congratulations you won the battle, unfortunately not the war yet.

It is a real sense of accomplishment when you work around these things though, well done!

by husp1

I too spent a period of time trying to rid myself of a cloning little trojan. this little bundle of love was picked up by my norten and once detected it would reproduce itself in lower then upper case depending on witch mr. norten detected. (caught the little bugger in action and deleated the stinker manualy) some of us depend on anti-virus so much that we forget to look at the system itself.

This discussion is closed to new replies.