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homebound_gw

A bad virus encounter

16 years ago

Geez, I hope nobody has the problem that I have on my laptop. Among other things it's blocking lots of stuff, even in safe mode, such as firefox, all virus software, redirecting google (or giving blank results), saying I don't have adminstrator permission whenever I tried to open a virus software, etc. Total nightmare. I must have rebooted 10 times to try different things. (this is on Win XP professional, btw)

I tried to take a USB drive that already had a virus scanner installed, but it wouldn't let me open it. Also tried running various online virus scanners (In "safe mode with networking) via internet explorer and it just kept crashing it. Finally, I was able to open Firefox in safe mode and am running something called ESET online scanner (I needed something that didn't require IE since I couldn't keep it from crashing...found it in a top 10 list on CNET or somewhere similar.

It's now still scanning and so far has found 4 versions of some sort of Kryptik trojan. Hope this works.

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