JointRolla420
Active Member
I just got my first virus... well, that my antivirus couldn't block.
Someone on my site reported a post as containing a virus, it was
Microsoft Word [Portable] and about 100mb in size so I thought... that's pretty big for a virus
I downloaded it to double-check and when I extracted it it looked real, had an icon that looked official I opened the exe and it showed the Microsoft Word load screen as it normally would.. but then it froze and my antivirus popped up saying "buffer overload blocked" and Ad-Watch detected some shit and popped up something saying process blocked.
After all that I just ended the process, and then my explorer.exe started crashing to the point that every 30 seconds it would do it...
I went into processes and there were like 300 entries the virus had running, all random #'s followed by .exe
The virus also kept opening WinZIP and trying to extract shit and I kept clicking cancel when it did it.
I logged off and my PC's explorer isn't crashing any more however its slow as hell, even though I don't notice any processes that look suspicious, and NOW in google any thing I click on doesn't go to the website entry it goes to another search engine such as:
http://www.ave99.com/search.php?q="what i searched for"
and every time I restart firefox and search in google it will redirect to a different search engine thing..
So the results are:
Slow as hell PC
Google does not work
and my ad-aware or antivirus wont detect it XD
Any suggestions??
Usually I dont have to worry about this shit because my antivirus always blocks anything bad I get
Also I remember the ad-aware popping up something about a change to services.exe or something I cant remember exactly...
Someone on my site reported a post as containing a virus, it was
Microsoft Word [Portable] and about 100mb in size so I thought... that's pretty big for a virus
I downloaded it to double-check and when I extracted it it looked real, had an icon that looked official I opened the exe and it showed the Microsoft Word load screen as it normally would.. but then it froze and my antivirus popped up saying "buffer overload blocked" and Ad-Watch detected some shit and popped up something saying process blocked.
After all that I just ended the process, and then my explorer.exe started crashing to the point that every 30 seconds it would do it...
I went into processes and there were like 300 entries the virus had running, all random #'s followed by .exe
The virus also kept opening WinZIP and trying to extract shit and I kept clicking cancel when it did it.
I logged off and my PC's explorer isn't crashing any more however its slow as hell, even though I don't notice any processes that look suspicious, and NOW in google any thing I click on doesn't go to the website entry it goes to another search engine such as:
http://www.ave99.com/search.php?q="what i searched for"
and every time I restart firefox and search in google it will redirect to a different search engine thing..
So the results are:
Slow as hell PC
Google does not work
and my ad-aware or antivirus wont detect it XD
Any suggestions??
Usually I dont have to worry about this shit because my antivirus always blocks anything bad I get
Also I remember the ad-aware popping up something about a change to services.exe or something I cant remember exactly...