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[Peewee]

 

His point, of course, is that windows/mac have thousands of times more viruses than linux.

Anyway, the best method I know of for safely cleaning the hell out of a hard drive is:

Go to an uninfected computer. On it, install:

Firefox (just because firefox rules, not really for scanning. ) http://www.mozilla.com/
Autoruns http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/default.aspx
MBAM http://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam.php
Spybot S&D http://www.safer-networking.org/en/home/index.html
Glary Utilities http://www.glaryutilities.com/
Rootkit revealer http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/default.aspx
HijackThis http://download.cnet.com/Trend-Micro-HijackThis/3000-8022_4-10227353.html

... and whatever others people recommend.
WHILE THE CLEAN MACHINE IS ON, plug in the infected hard drive, so it doesn't try to load the OS from that disc. Then find some decent guides on how to run each individual scan, as I'm too tired to finish this post properly. (sorry)

[Baughn]

If the HD doesn't use a SATA connection, you can't hot-plug it. In that case, just be careful not to actually boot from it.

[Peewee]

Yeah you can... it just needs a special adapter thing that connects to the ATA thing on the drive and has a usb cable coming off it for the clean machine. We do it at work for laptop drives all the time, but I'm not sure if it exists for the larger drives.

[Idiom]

Avast Anti-virus I recommend. The home edition is free and I've had the longest personal record of no infections with it.

[eerr]

Tea Timer detects & intercepts resigistry edits, allowing you the chance to block nasty infections.

[KaelGotDwarves]

Just wanted to say that this thread has fantastic advice. thumbs up.

Also, been using my new computer for awhile (usually vista), never had any problems when running firefox with noscript and adblock even while downloading various things. When I'm not playing games I boot ubuntu though.

My sis runs a laptop that's fairly new with IE in WinXP and I found 500 worms/trojans/viruses on it with various scanners awhile ago.

Take that as you will.

[Peewee]

Tea Timer detects & intercepts resigistry edits, allowing you the chance to block nasty infections.

True, but running tea timer also makes you extraordinarily susceptible to vundo/virtuamonde/virtuamondo virus vairiations.

[Areyar]

Tea Timer detects & intercepts resigistry edits, allowing you the chance to block nasty infections.

True, but running tea timer also makes you extraordinarily susceptible to vundo/virtuamonde/virtuamondo virus vairiations.

Really?
That is the trojan downloader I got stricken with recently. And I use teatimer.
Any ideas why running TT would make one exceptionable vulnerable to this worm?

[Peewee]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vundo#Detection_and_Removal

"Some modern variants of Vundo can exploit the presence of Spybot - Search & Destroy by infecting TeaTimer.exe, a program that is bundled with Spybot, or by using an undetected "puppetmaster" to copy critical DLLs."

[Micro102]

ok if i do have an adware it occasionally opens a "your computer is at risk of viruses" page and shows a fake virus scan.

i dont feel like downloading 50 anti spyware programs to get rid of this one harmless thing so can soemone tell me a surefire program? maybe someone knows the name of this adware?

[Peewee]

Screenshot of the fake virus scan, please?
There are dozens and dozens of those.

[Micro102]

well this is a problem...its called virus doctor and is already well known. and the Maleware-bytes antimaleware i downloaded and scanned with is supposedly a cure for it.....but apperently not.

so i guess if i get ticked off at it enough ill go rampaging through my registries and manually delete it.

not harmful unless your an idiot and buy the full version

[Yanlin]

I don't understand where people get all this stuff from. I'm not exactly wearing a massive adamantine condom while browsing. How come I'm so healthy?

[ToonyMan]

I don't understand where people get all this stuff from. I'm not exactly wearing a massive adamantine condom while browsing. How come I'm so healthy?

Irony my dear boy, irony.

[Yanlin]

Well I'd rate my condom as ☼Steel eCondom☼ at best.