Guest assegai Posted February 15, 2009 Share Posted February 15, 2009 I somehow managed to get a pretty bad computer virus on my computer... AVG and Spybot wont open, adaware does a piss poor job and all the free computer scanner websites wont even work. I've decided I probably have to reformat but I don't have an XP disc that came with the dell. Anyone know how to reformat without a disc? I'm trying to avoid spending 150$ on a fresh copy of XP. Thanks :undecided: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BCM Posted February 15, 2009 Share Posted February 15, 2009 can you use your computer at all? like to download a copy of XP first before reformatting? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest assegai Posted February 15, 2009 Share Posted February 15, 2009 Yeah, the internet is slow, but I'm using the computer with the virus on it right now to post here. I also need to do some banking online so I didn't want to do that until I wipe this shit out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcbpete Posted February 15, 2009 Share Posted February 15, 2009 Have you tried running AVG & Spybot in safe mode ? Any chance you can run Hijack This ( http://download.hijackthis.eu/HJTInstall.exe) and paste the log in here so I'll hopefully know what nasty malware you've got. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Yegg Posted February 15, 2009 Share Posted February 15, 2009 Malwarebytes succeeds where avg and spybot fail. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest assegai Posted February 15, 2009 Share Posted February 15, 2009 Malwarebytes succeeds where avg and spybot fail. The virus wont let me update any of my antivirus software, so whenever I download an antivirus program I'm using whatever version the original download is, so I don't know how effective it'l be but i'm going to try that now. Mcpete - tried safemode, didn't work and whenever I open the folder where my dl's are, my OS crashes lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest assegai Posted February 15, 2009 Share Posted February 15, 2009 » Click to show Spoiler - click again to hide... « YEGG that program actually worked (after trying like 10 of the most popular ones unsuccessfully) It detected 15 trojans, now I'm spybot and everythings updating. Thanks a bunch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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