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I am a fool

For the first time since I can remember, ive managed to infect myself with bloody spyware. Best bit is... it totally f**ks over firefox, yet didnt screw over IE7.

Stupid lying software website. "we scan all of our software to make sure its 100% spyware and adware free"

ass.

RIght now as I rebooted and windows is now refusing to boot (thank god I have a centos partition on this drive), any suggestions as to a decent live cd for disinfection of my windows drive?

not even booting in safe mode with networking?

if it does then try www.ewido.com
Thats AVGs Anti-spyware online scan.  Also if you can find it Webroot system analyser is pretty good, but its more of a system inspection tool than removal.  

nope

If you can get it into safemode. Try downloading it on another computer and transfer using a USB memory dongle.

Otherwise saving it might involve some surgery, take out the drive, connect it to a clean computer with the stuff installed and then give it a good software kicking?

Dont know any live distros for that sort of use.

Come to think of it there was a vulnerability that allows a trojan or something to use IE to infect FF, either is proofed on its own but due to passing it over it doesnt get checked. It was supposedly going to get fixed by altering FF.

Never trust a site though, even magazine cover disks have been known to carry viruses by accident, and yes, I have been infected by one. Way back when my compy was a Comodore Amiga. Have found another on a CD cover disk and a third was released on a DVD.

Hirens bootCD has antiviral tools f-prot and McAfee + S&D

I put it here temporarely cause the download when one finds it is usually really slow.

thanks bear : ) will download it when I get home

Quote from: SeriousIf you can get it into safemode. Try downloading it on another computer and transfer using a USB memory dongle.

Otherwise saving it might involve some surgery, take out the drive, connect it to a clean computer with the stuff installed and then give it a good software kicking?

Dont know any live distros for that sort of use.

Come to think of it there was a vulnerability that allows a trojan or something to use IE to infect FF, either is proofed on its own but due to passing it over it doesnt get checked. It was supposedly going to get fixed by altering FF.

Never trust a site though, even magazine cover disks have been known to carry viruses by accident, and yes, I have been infected by one. Way back when my compy was a Comodore Amiga. Have found another on a CD cover disk and a third was released on a DVD.

It wasnt infected because of visiting a site, I installed a small app that played an MP3 file at full volume when a time was reached. I could have coded it up myself in 10 minutes, but a 30 second google search sent me to a software download website like you usually get like tucows and whatnot... checked the software, seemed legit.

Noticed nothing odd when I installed it, then I had a niggle... a pop up appeared after leaving firefox open on my own website (was testing it for compatibility on browsers... and had just left it in the background) I knew my site was clean... and had a niggle. shutdown, and started back up in the morning, and BOOM... hit by god knows what. Spybot seems to fight like crazy on startup in safemode and in normal mode, resulting in 100% cpu usage, and no explorer.exe loading.

A live cd for scanning is the only thing that can help. I have a bartpe cd around somewhere but its rigged up for defrag and not much else... so somewhat useless.

once you get going, install and run adaware and sbearch and destroy

google em... or download em from my webspace..
http://www.knighty1.com/aawsepersonal.exe
http://www.knighty1.com/spybotsd14.exe

I always keep them there handy for when Im sorting out other peeps computers !

slightly off topic but scheduled tasks (control panel) can play MP3s for you.  Just set a time to run the mp3 file and itll play.

lol spybot is the reason I cant get into windows.

In general I hate anti-spyware crap, and I hate nag screens "omgz you saved a file... you surez!?" hence me never using them. What I do normally use is a firewall of some kind, and an anti-virus like nod32. However this is a fairly fresh install of xp, so never got around to putting them on here.

Doh.

Quote from: SteveFslightly off topic but scheduled tasks (control panel) can play MP3s for you.  Just set a time to run the mp3 file and itll play.

you are sh*tting me? seriously? Youre god like steve... yes! Woo for alarm clock

or buy a £4 value radio-alarm from Tesco and dont run your PC all night?  

I have stopped using adaware and S&D and using AVG anti spyware instead and so far I am very pleased.

BTW meta did u get it sorted ?

Quote from: bearI have stopped using adaware and S&D and using AVG anti spyware instead and so far I am very pleased.

BTW meta did u get it sorted ?

Downloaded it last night Ran it and did an fprot check, came up with nothing. Only thing is I dont see where the S&D application is as I only see Mcafee and F-Prot.

So nope still not fixed

lol @ bigsoy. Reason im trying this out is because I currently have dodgy sinuses, meaning that my hearing is pretty much crap at the moment. What was a loud siren alarm from my old alarm clock, is now a feeble "woo woo" sound. I literally do not hear it. My computer on the other hand is a loud bastard on full volume itll get me out of bed.

S&D is in wintools and can run from windows environment only I believe.

Have u checked for root-kits ? AVG has a free root-kit revealer.