When someone posts, what details should be needed. I have started this thread to get a list of things needed by people here to help someone. I can think of a few but might have missed something.
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What Operating System are you using?
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What service pack is your Operating System patched up to?
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What Real-time virus product(s) are you using?
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What Firewall software/hardware are you running.
a) If any, what version. -
What symptoms have you seen.
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If a program picked something up, what program was it. And also please paste the log from the program, we need specifically:
a) Name of virus/trojan detected.
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GOTO: “http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/index.php”
on the left hand side goto “Downloads tab”
Select “Hijackthis”
Download from a mirror.
Instruction on how to use hijackthis:1. Once downloaded, extract it to it's own folder somewhere on your computer. (Do Not run from within the Zip file) 2. Make sure you logged onto an administrative account. 3. Once extracted, run the "hijackthis.exe" that was extracted. 4. Click "Do a system scan and save a logfile", wait a few secs. 5. Once finished it should save a "hijackthis.log" file in the same directory as you ran the program from and open the file. 6. Copy the contents of the file into your post, or attach the "hijackthis.log" file into your post, please do not zip it as this makes myself nervous because of file infecter viruses.
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Have you visited any places that you think you have have got this from. IE: Adult sites, file sharing programs, Illegal software. Since this is the internet, and we don’t know who you are i am sure this won’t be a problem. (:TNG)
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if you are getting pop-ups or “buy this”, “buy that” popups take note of the following and post them:
a) the site that shows a product that you did not as to go to (Redirected to).
b) And popups saying you have “XYZ virus, please download/buy X product” . We need to know the name of the product (X) it wants you to buy.
- What scans have you run so far?
cheers, rotty