Sometimes you just have to scratch your head and wonder at how no one seems to “get it”. I have a dear friend that seems to not get the fact that you really need to follow advice from someone that you trust to work on your computer.
I helped a friend fix up an old computer a year ago that a family member of his had given him. He brought it by after 6 months full of viruses and had to be rebuilt. It came back recently, needing to be looked at because it would hardly do anything. I had told him to be sure and update the anti-virus often. Guess what, not only did he admit it had not been updated prior to being trashed by something it had caught online. But that it had stopped working a month ago.
I worked on it free of charge, and sent him back this list of things I had done to it. It was the best I could do since I didn’t want to redo everything again from scratch. Here is the note I sent back to him when he picked it up.
Checked your Computer out. Removed what items I could to rid the pop-ups from the XP Home Security 2011 Malware trojan.
Changes: For some reason now when it boots up, you will have to hit “Esc” to continue the boot process. No harm, it just says Drive A has gone Bad. Could be a loose cable or the drive has just died. (Floppy Drive).
Sounds at times like Hard Drive trying to go out. It will die suddenly and without warning, suggest you replace it.
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Superantispyware Scan ran from Safe Mode
Memory Items Detected 0
Files Detected 538
Registry Items Detected 64
Total Threats Detected 602
Scan Time 02:29:44
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Malwarebytes scan
Objects scanned: 132868
Objects infected:33
Time elapsed: 1 hours, 7 minutes, 35 seconds.
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Others found
Adware.Vundo.Variant 8
Browser Hijacker.Tubby 10
Adware.MyWebSearch/Fun/FunWebProducts 23
Adware.Vundo Variant/Rel 24
Adware.Tracking Cookie 536
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One rootkit Alureon-G@mbr (rootkit) removed on Avast scan startup.
Avst boottime scan found:
Win:32 DNSChanger-VJ (trojan)
Alureon-G@mbr (rootkit)
Win:32:Downloader-Hiw (trojan)
Win:32:malware-gen
Win:32:malware-gen
Will it be back again, probably. I won’t be as quick or eager to fix it the next time. He’s single and turns out he frequents dating, gambling, and other sites of interest.
Do you have friends like this?