Viruses
My laptop has a couple of big nasty virsus/spyware/whatever the hell you call them. It sucks ROYALLY. I do not have $300 to go let Best Buy clean it up. Nor would I be able to take wiping my harddrive either. I haven't saved half my shit onto CDs because I'm stupid and I've never had a virus and I've never had to worry about it. I just don't have $65 for them to look at it, then $200 to fix it for me, all while wiping my harddrive. Can't do it. I just bought about 3 necessary but I wish weren't things, and that's all I want to do for a while.
I spent about 2 days trying to fix it myself by reading on forums of what people suggested to do with these viruses, step by friggin step and they're still there.
It's my fault, which makes it so much worse. My friend sent me an instant message but all it was was a link to something. So, being my friend, and him getting married next year and he sends me random stuff, I just clicked on it...STUPID. So it asks me to download this thing automatically, and I can't tell what kind of file it is, so I do it anyway thinking it's just a picture or something...MAN I"M STUPD...yes I KNOW better than this I don't know WHAT I was thinking, I am still kicking myself for this. So now it's on my desktop and I still can't tell what it is so I double click on it to open it...STUPID...that's when it disappears and I have some lovely viruses on my lap top now. I'm so pissed at myself...I don't fall for stupid things like this, but I guess we must all have our weak moments because that was the bonehead move of the month for me.
Everytime I bring up my computer it loads this virus, but...it errors out, I think, so I can't tell if I'm getting the full brunt of this one virus because I know the .exe file it's trying to load errors out, unless that's part of the virus. But I do know I still have some viruses on there because I get pop ups when I don't even touch my computer, much less be on the Internet. And they are Internet Explorer viruses which I don't even USE Internet Explorer.
ALSO my fault because I let my Norton AntiVirus run out and not renew because I'm STUPID and because when I tried it wouldn't accept my subscription key and I dind't feel like calling anyone AND I just don't have the money to friggin renew an antivirus...STUPID.
This is on top of my buying a $115 optical drive to replace the one that broke 14 days after my warranty expired and finding out from Best Buy that it wont work and so they send my laptop in to HP to have them fix it and them saying it would be $600 and me telling them to fuck off and send it back, so I get it back NOTHING FIXED after 3 weeks AND my mouse pad doesn't work anymore...THEN I get a fucking virus. Honest thoughts of throwing my lap top out the window have occured.
So, in conclusion, I'M STUPID...and I hate computers.
I spent about 2 days trying to fix it myself by reading on forums of what people suggested to do with these viruses, step by friggin step and they're still there.
It's my fault, which makes it so much worse. My friend sent me an instant message but all it was was a link to something. So, being my friend, and him getting married next year and he sends me random stuff, I just clicked on it...STUPID. So it asks me to download this thing automatically, and I can't tell what kind of file it is, so I do it anyway thinking it's just a picture or something...MAN I"M STUPD...yes I KNOW better than this I don't know WHAT I was thinking, I am still kicking myself for this. So now it's on my desktop and I still can't tell what it is so I double click on it to open it...STUPID...that's when it disappears and I have some lovely viruses on my lap top now. I'm so pissed at myself...I don't fall for stupid things like this, but I guess we must all have our weak moments because that was the bonehead move of the month for me.
Everytime I bring up my computer it loads this virus, but...it errors out, I think, so I can't tell if I'm getting the full brunt of this one virus because I know the .exe file it's trying to load errors out, unless that's part of the virus. But I do know I still have some viruses on there because I get pop ups when I don't even touch my computer, much less be on the Internet. And they are Internet Explorer viruses which I don't even USE Internet Explorer.
ALSO my fault because I let my Norton AntiVirus run out and not renew because I'm STUPID and because when I tried it wouldn't accept my subscription key and I dind't feel like calling anyone AND I just don't have the money to friggin renew an antivirus...STUPID.
This is on top of my buying a $115 optical drive to replace the one that broke 14 days after my warranty expired and finding out from Best Buy that it wont work and so they send my laptop in to HP to have them fix it and them saying it would be $600 and me telling them to fuck off and send it back, so I get it back NOTHING FIXED after 3 weeks AND my mouse pad doesn't work anymore...THEN I get a fucking virus. Honest thoughts of throwing my lap top out the window have occured.
So, in conclusion, I'M STUPID...and I hate computers.
Yeah.
That was stupid. LOL.
But even if you DID have Norton, I've found it lets HALF OF THAT CRAP THROUGH!!!!!
It will pop up saying it couldn't fix it... so you look on their webpage and index and guess what? They say they've known about it since 2004 and it's completely covered in their coverage...
but it's not.
Anyway!
Do you have your disk? You could just reformat the hard drive yourself.... you'd lose everything, but you could do it anyway.
I had Best Buy do ours a few months ago when I was going to switch to McAfee from Norton, but didn't take Norton off 'first' and fried my hard drive. They were able to save almost every photo, bookmark, music file, etc. that I had though. It was worth the money to me to have them save all those files.
;)
Posted by
Me |
7:55 AM
Geez Lars! I think you are a bit hard on yourself. It happens.
Sounds like you need to reformat the hard drive. It's not hard to do, but it does take time. Can you copy the files you want to save onto disks? If not, I guess you will either lose stuff or have to pay the $200.00.
Posted by
Yankeebob |
9:07 AM
Well, it was just such a dumb mistake on my part, I just wasn't thinking.
I would have to see if I have my reboot disks or not...
I could transfer all my stuff on to CDs before I wipe it, but wont I be transfering the virus with them files? Wouldn't you think that the viruses would attach themselves to something I'm transfering on to CD, so when I put my files back on my new harddrive then I'd just put the damn thing back on again? Maybe that's not so, but I thought it was...
Posted by
Lars |
9:29 AM
According to the hubby who knows a little about computers - you have a "pretty good chance of transfering the virus with your files.... It all depends how important the files are - you may have to bite the bullet and pay best buy or some high school computer genius to fix it... good luck!
Posted by
momma of 2 |
5:59 PM
Just checking in to see how your party and cake-baking went!!!!
As for the computer - if you get a virus, say a trojan style - look and see when your warning pops up, WHERE it is. If it's in the temp file or the local settings file you can stop it by IMMEDIATELY clicking on the TOOLS, INTERNET OPTIONS, and then clearning your cache, and YES check the box for DELETE ALL OFFLINE FILES as well. Then close the window.
I usually do this twice just to be sure... LOL.
THEN: As an added precaution I open my C drive and click on windows, click on temp and then literally delete my entire temp file folder.
Then empty out your recycle bin.
I've been able to catch 3 this way that did absolutely no damage as they were caught and deleted immediately.
NOW... about that party???????
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Me |
6:18 PM
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