VIRUS??? XP gets hunged? OMG...

guissmo

Alright, we all know for a fact that Windows is virus prone..

I just wonder what happened to my cousin's PC.

She just goes to the internet, surfs some Yahoo or something...
then after that, when she disconnects and tries to connect again,
something weird goes on with the "Connect To" item.

Everytime the cursor hovers on it,
the PC... er... does nothing... even if you move and move the mouse away, it just goes away...

We tried reformatting the said PC but the same thing happens.

Any suggestions on removing this virus?

IceCreamTruck

Lookup AVAST in google and that might get it

Lookup AVG and that might help too

Both of these are free virus removal programs, but it sounds like the virus has set itself up in the boot partition so it will run after reinstalling the OS.

Reformat the drive completely and remove all existing partitions and start from scratch, but also remember to disconnect the computer from the internet first so the virus doesn't get a chance to come back in over the internet before you get a chance to do anything about it.

Also, install Zone alarm free firewall before connection as it sounds like there is a computer close to her (same ISP) where someone else is allowing the virus to serve itself out from. Also could be a computer on the local network that is serving the virus. Is this the only computer she owns? or that is on the same internet connection because this virus sounds very close to her indeed.

guissmo

Yes. It's not connected to any LAN whatsoever... we're just neighbors and I'm not getting the virus (we're using the same ISP...)...

manumiglani

You will have to completely format(delete) the drive on which you OS (XP) was installed. Also, boot scan you computer ( scanning while booting ) which avast or avg. They both are capable of scanning while booting.

Bones

Donutey

pop the XP cd into your computer, and boot off of it, when you choose a new install choose the "complete reformat option" which will write 000s all across the hard drive, a "quick reformat" might not neccesarily get the virus.

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