Virus-Need help

Darn Malware

Published on January 14, 2009 By WeatherBound In Personal Computing

I have vista and was running One-Care Anti virus and firewall. Some how a virus came into my system.

I have uninstalled One-Care and installed Avast Antivirus software that has a boot scan. I did the boot scan and it found 5 viruses on my system. Avast took care of those. I installed Comodo firewall just because i think it better to have a firewall installed.

I then Installed MalwareByts Anti malware soft-wear and it found one attack. And deleted it.

So far all sounds good but

I am still receiving messages in my Email saying that my email i sent did not go thrue and gives me the email addresses where it was supposed to go. I do not Email very much and all these addresses where not sent by me.

I will also add that i did try Ad-Aware, Spy-blaster and Avg and others and all say everything is Good.

I am still getting theses could not be delivered emails that i did not send. when i look at the date the error message says the recent date of today.....

Has any one run in to this? If so how long does it take for those could not be delivered emails to get out of the Email system?

I will tell you it has been since Friday since all scans have been showing up with no viruses.

If you have had this virus. Let me know what you did to get rid of it.

Any help would be appreciated

Thanks

Comments (Page 7)

Tailsgirl

on Jan 22, 2009

Weatherbound, I'm a 'Format-a-phobe'

Awww Jim, keep the trophy, you've been an immense help in this topic

WeatherBound

on Jan 22, 2009

Tailsgirl, I am not afraid to crash it because its like Jim says. Make it like new

The only thing why i am hesitating this time is i have a few soft wear installed on this and i do not have any installs to them.

It may take a little time to get updated after crash but its worth it at the end. And if anyone going to do a crash it will be a full blown crash. I have done a half crash and that led to a full one anyways. lol

Tailsgirl

on Jan 22, 2009

But it's needless!!!! you can get this fixed in less than an hour, trust me

Fuzzy Logic

on Jan 23, 2009

You could have had a clean install done in a fraction of the time that's been spent 'messing'.

A good backup solution is worth considering. My XP set up has DriveImage 7 set to do daily backups. If I got hit by a virus I could restore from backup in about 15 minutes - less than it would take to do a virus scan

Tailsgirl

on Jan 23, 2009

Fuzzy Logic

reply 19

You could have had a clean install done in a fraction of the time that's been spent 'messing'.

I love you Fuzzball

PuterDudeJim

on Jan 23, 2009

You could have had a clean install done in a fraction of the time that's been spent 'messing'.

But as we all know, there are lots of people that don't keep backups. Never understood that, my brother is that way. If you don't keep backups, you lose too much in a format. To all those reading this thread, always keep backups!! There are many good backup programs out there.

I don't mean to say that Don has no backups, I don't know that. But I do know that a lot of people don't, for some odd reason.

PuterDudeJim

on Jan 23, 2009

Fuzzy, If you have a backup program, does it backup the virus?

DrJBHL

on Jan 23, 2009

I use Norton Ghost 14. You guys know so much more than me...did I make a good or bad choice?

WeatherBound

on Jan 23, 2009

I don't mean to say that Don has no backups, I don't know that. But I do know that a lot of people don't, for some odd reason.

I do do backups.

But that only saves documents and media. All the rest of my programs and even Vista it self needs to update to sp1.

Then My WoW would need to be installed wich could take days. Lol Not sure if i could handle that in its self.

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Fuzzy Logic

on Jan 23, 2009

Fuzzy, If you have a backup program, does it backup the virus?

Yes, but, my current back up set goes back as far as 7th Dec (when I did my current install). So, if I got hit, say, three days ago, I'd have plenty of backups to choose from which are virus free. You need a big drive to store the backups, but they are so cheap these days.

I've just looked at my back up set and noticed a disturbing trend - they are getting bigger each day. Running drive scan has showed my my Nikon Capture NX software has currently 1.4Gb of thumbnails I didn't know it did that...

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PuterDudeJim

on Jan 23, 2009

I've just looked at my back up set and noticed a disturbing trend - they are getting bigger each day.

Yes, and you'd be surprised how big your Stardock folder can be. Mine is 5.4 GB.

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WeatherBound

on Jan 23, 2009

Update

Email has stooped for now. Its been about 24hr free

Thanks Jim

I have done so many scans by so many different soft wear. firewalls anti-virus and malware. Some slowed down my computer and some did OK.

Yrag told me to try Kaspersky. So I did the Kaspersky Internet Security.

It has made my computer run much faster. web pages pop up really fast and that includes WC.

So thanks for the advice Yrag

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PuterDudeJim

on Jan 24, 2009

Awesome news!!!!

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