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C2RL R
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1st Nov 09 at 20:01   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

i think i have a virus on my work laptop. i just opened up IE and i have some new toolbar called "Star". i can't turn it off and i don't know where it is to uninstall it. also my searches are affected. no matter which search engine i use i never get taken to the page i am supposed to. i've done a virus scan and there is nothing wrong. also i ran ad-aware and spybot and they have found nothing. i tried to do a system restore but it wouldn't complete.

any ideas?
John
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1st Nov 09 at 20:06   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

Install and run malware bytes anti malware, that's been doing the business recently.

http://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam.php
C2RL R
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1st Nov 09 at 20:09   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

i can't even get that link to work. it looks like it's about to load but then it stops and IE says it can't load the page.
John
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1st Nov 09 at 20:12   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

Try starting in safe mode with networking, not sure if this will load the wireless drivers or not though, that might stop enough loading to get IE to work.
C2RL R
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1st Nov 09 at 20:27   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

can't do that either mate. i select safe mode with networking and then windows xp and i just get the blue screen saying an error has occured.
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1st Nov 09 at 20:32   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

That link won't work for me either and my PC is fine?
Baz-Zico
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1st Nov 09 at 20:38   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

Do you get this error screen?

http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a30/Baz555/17102009040.jpg

happened to my mums last week, just fixed it..
C2RL R
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1st Nov 09 at 20:42   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

yes mate
John
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1st Nov 09 at 20:46   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

quote:
Originally posted by DannyB
That link won't work for me either and my PC is fine?


Something's wrong if it won't open my mbam link.
Baz-Zico
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1st Nov 09 at 20:46   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

The problem on my mums was basically the harddrive was fooked. Had to get a new one and when installing the operating system on, had to disable "Native Sata Mode" in the BIOS even tho its a new sata drive, if its enabled it doesnt find any harddrives to install to..
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1st Nov 09 at 20:51   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

i don't think it's the same thing mate. mine has only been playing up since this "star toolbar" appeared. it's got to be malware.
John
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1st Nov 09 at 20:51   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

Can you get mbam from another computer and copy it across with a memory stick?
C2RL R
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1st Nov 09 at 20:55   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

i'm just trying that now mate. on my mates pc.
C2RL R
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1st Nov 09 at 21:32   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

seems to have worked that. cheers John.
C2RL R
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1st Nov 09 at 22:18   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

i'm gettin pop ups now...
John
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1st Nov 09 at 22:39   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

Did you update it before it ran?

It won't definitely get rid of everything but I've had to use it a couple of times recently and it's done better than anything else.
_Allan_
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1st Nov 09 at 22:44   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

Malware bytes has improved loads. I discounted it off hand for a lads laptop in work the other week and in the end was the only thing that seemed to shift his fake AV spyware program.

[Edited on 01-11-2009 by _Allan_]
John
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2nd Nov 09 at 00:22   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

I was using it for that on a laptop last week, first program I've used that got rid of it with no fuss.
C2RL R
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2nd Nov 09 at 00:54   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

i did a propper full scan with ad-aware and i've managed to stop the pop ups now. it took almost 2 hrs to scan everything!

 
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