Not again

[benbryant]

another clean install, learn from your mistakes

I absolutely go with anony. I never trust any antivirus programs to be able to completely eradicate the annoying virus and undo the already done damage to PC. Clean install is, IMHO, the perfect solution. How about a clean install on PC user's mind too so he won't make that kind of mistake again?

Regards

[katzdvd]

How about a clean install on PC user's mind too so he won't make that kind of mistake again

Been there...

I agree ; when the system gets too "hosed", this is the only way to go! Nothing like a squeaky clean, brand new system!

Think how much faster everthing will run! (At least for a day or so, 'till you load it all up again!)

Have Fun!

Cheers, katz

[LT. Columbo]

(At least for a day or so, 'till you load it all up again!)

hopefully drf won't.

[Chewy]

he installed a crappy spyware program by choice, not a virus, even comes with uninstaller

[blutach]

Was it kabuchan who suggested the imaging of your system partition? Quick n easy and gets outa fcukups in no time flat.

Regards

[gs47]

Sorry to hear about the nasty dilemma drf. Most all of us have a major problem of some sort and had to do the clean install.

There is a recent thread about another member losing everything and I hope he ended up doing a clean install too.

I can't possibly or more highly recommend an external backup drive with software. There are a number of very good "1click backup" solutions and they have become quite reasonably priced. Also would go with a firewire connection.
You can get an external drive and patch together a bit of a do-it-yourself backup system; OR get a proven way of doing it that is compatible for a little more money. You know your own level of expertise. I personally wanted something that I knew was good from the first try, wasn't interested in taking time to run "tests"

I back up my entire computer either after I've used it and know I have increased the amount of data somewhat or added new programs that I know I want to keep; or once a week whichever is more frequent.

I have 17g+ on my C drive and the entire backup of all drives - entire system, takes 13 minutes. Talk about peace of mind.

I use to use a tape backup way back when, but on 2 different occasions, that backup saved my business...really. I'm a firm believer and long-time user of backup systems

I can't help you with the current problem, sorry, but this is a suggestion that is well intended and has been very useful for me.

I like sleeping at night.

[drfsupercenter]

and I thought you were going to the porn sites danny

What gave you that idea?

he installed a crappy spyware program by choice, not a virus, even comes with uninstaller

A bit more complicated than that. I downloaded an EXE that would probably be violating multiple forum rules if I mention it, so I won't. But let's just say that the second I opened it I got about 12 McAfee warnings and multiple spyware installations.

However, most of these I fixed with safe mode and Spyware Doctor, that program (the free trial even) is amazing.

What is left is the OIN thing, I ran that uninstaller, hopefully that will work.

However, this still happens. Every time I boot McAfee comes up with two virus warnings, one can be deleted and one can't.

It USED to be in the Temp Internet Files folder, but it now moved to something else.

Would trojanhunter be of use here or is that not gonna help?

Also, I note that virus scanning in safe mode does nothing, as these files appear on every NORMAL BOOT, not in safe mode.

[drfsupercenter]

2006-08-03, 22:17:16, Could not set file for reading on "C:\WINDOWS\Prefetch\OINS.EXE-03BFD069.pf": Access is denied.

A clue?

I hope that uninstaller deleted that.

[Chewy]

I gave you the link, run hijackthis and do the same thing to get rid of the registry entries

[drfsupercenter]

What about those virus warnings?

[drfsupercenter]

OK, I always see an IE window in task manager even when I close them all.

It's probably loading those viruses and crap in there, caused my PC to crash earlier. Any way to get rid of that?

[Chewy]

try disconnecting from internet, kill processes in task manager, they don't die easy

[drfsupercenter]

I can close it fine, I want a way to prevent it from starting in the first place.

[Chewy]

hijackthis

[pittbull]

it would deffo be best to re-format, coz even if u did remove as much as possible, there will still be little f*ck-ups lyin around that will slow down your comp and effect programs.
i got a bad trojan a while back, i had to fight to open my antivirus program to run a proper scan, coz my desktop had disapeared and gone on to a blank white screen. i sorted it out in the end, but still had to re-format coz the comp never ran the same after that, i kept gettin constant error messages.
learn from mistakes and get better netguard.