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I got infected, yes, me!

Posted by Scorpiono | The daily www | Saturday 26 July 2008 11:27 am
adwareIt’s not that I’m invulnerable or something, actually I had no antivirus program running at the moment, and all I wanted is download Chicken Invaders from PirateBay to play with my Girlfriend. You’d say, “clear target” - and yes you are right.

I have spent about 4 hours trying to fix this, going from forums.microsoft.com to fix Vista back - to downloading anti spyware programs (none were free!).

I did it my way, downloaded HiJackthis tool from Majorgeeks, removed the suspicious files and then removing it from the HDD as well.

Currently, I’m desinfected but I still have problems with Vista’s System Restore point keep saying that “Maximum number of secrets stored in..” and makes the restore point unavailable.

Got any tip?

2 Comments »

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  1. Comment by Scorpiono — July 28, 2008 @ 9:25 am

    Short update: I reinstalled Vista, the system was running slow! ;\ ouch!

  2. Comment by VMOptions — August 3, 2008 @ 12:36 pm

    Wow, that sucks having to reinstall the OS. WinXP’s system restore is horrible after an infection. I think most of the people that write viruses, trojans, and badware first disable restore to make it difficult to correct the problem.

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