Thread: my sons computer gets a virus....

...and he doesn't say anything until its so badly infected that there is nothing i can do for it. It block the user from doing ANYTHING in the control panel, or anything else that might lead to removing it, and once you thing you have identified it, if freaking morphs and pops up as something else..(like an antispyware scan, one you never intentionally downloaded or installed). So since it was an aging low end computer anyway, its getting the boot. I'll salvage what hardware i can and use it in my work computer... if thats safe, and get a new one for him and a couple of months. Fucking viruses and trojans...

Been there, that sucks. Hope it all gets fixed.

Well, i scanned mine tonight and had 4 trojans and a Rootkit... whatever that is. In ten years of being online, surfing the web and gaming, i have never had a virus, this was the closeset i have come. My boy, well, not so lucky.

One of the pieces of maleware that apparently started the whole house of cards a tumbling was something called Windows Pro Police. I read up a little about it before attempting to remove it, and its a rouge anti-virus software that has commonly been picked up off of myspace. Bottom line is the more you try to remove it, the more "maleware" it unleashes on your machine, practically rewriting your registry, and re-embedding itself in files you would never thing would have anything malicious about them.

Is your sons computer running Vista by any chance?

Believe it or not it's not all bad, Windows Defender saved my ass in a similar situation. I could not open my task manager no matter what i did, and when i deleted the virus it would just pop back up. Windows Defender is pretty much another task manager that you can use to force programs to shut, and (more importantly) prevent them from starting when you boot your machine. I simply prevented the virus from started with my machine, ran a quick scan, and deleted it.

Saved by Vista (never thought you would see that did you?)

Nope, no Vista. My boy and i run XP. I just dont see a backdoor way around it. I have MalwareBytes installed on it, but cant get it to run 'cause the malware is blocking everythin. :5

tell Tanker to stop downloading da pornz :P


In all seriousness though, you have tried running it in safe mode correct?

Originally Posted by vectus

Try a system restore or startup repair with the Window disc. You might be SOL. XP isn't supported anymore by Microsoft so I am sure the security issues will get worse. On a good note, Windows 7 is around the corner.

I wouldn't put the disk in there while the OS is up, one of my old OS disks way back when got infected by a virus my brother got onto my computer, was soooo pissed too.