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that should be illegal.

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It is illegal... falls under the same Category as releasing viruses and such.

[ October 15, 2003, 00:48: Message edited by: Imperator Fyron ]

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As a Last ditch effort I've manually deleted the whole load of files, they are suddenly there again when I reboot, the thing that scares me the most is when Avast detected this thing within my system restore drive. I've got one of those dells where the system restore is a seperate part of the hard drive, untouchable supposidly. So now even a full format/restore probally won't get rid of this. Don't even know how the damnable thing got on their in the first place.

Last resort, emailed the support page of the searchv people telling them my problem and asking to please get the thing off my hard drive. Doubt they'll even respond much less help out.

Sigh, ah well, guess I've got a new homepage for life.

Re: OT: HELP!! Virus??
 

I reccommend saving all your important data to CDs and then doing a low level format of your entire drive.

Reinstall windows from CD and then all your programs & data.

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Thanks guys for all the help, I've talked it over with my wife and if all thats going to happen is an annoying homepage then were just going to learn to live with it for now. It took enough time to format/restore the Last time, and we only have the windows that came with the system, which is for the system restore that is part of the hard drive. If things get wonkier though I might just have to attach giant magnets to the side of the computer and then borrow a Version of windozzz from a friend http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

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YOu can also try
http://www.spywareinfo.com/articles/cws/

[ October 15, 2003, 03:45: Message edited by: Andres ]

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threaten to sue.

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Try this www.pestpatrol.com They have one of the best spyware - adware killing programs out. JUST be very careful what you ok to delete. Files obtained via Kazaa and other P2P programs often have embedded spyware in them and this program will detect it and recommend it be deleted.

You have a Dell, well now its time to see if Dell will live up to its own hype and support your customer needs. (Not holding my breath for Dell's customer service is utter crap just like HP's.)

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The problem with the "system restore" partitions are they are now getting smarter and are storing your system modifications on them too.
ie. You install some hardware or software successfully - then it will copy this change to the "system restore" partition.
Great if your operating system dies, you can restore it back with your software changes, but bad in this case, where it has copied the program you don't want too.

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well i finally went down with the virus. Happened Sat night at about 1.30 am. I was in a conversation with Fyron on irc when it happened. I have all my important stuff backed up on cd So the damage is not bad at all. Just have to reinstall the OS and all software. So I most likely will not be around after work too much until I am up and running again.

I keep up with all patches and signature files... This one was not detected. I sent the files to CA to be analyzed.