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TheSaint · 2010-11-30 17:08:59

.....Last night I left my computer on while I went to a swim meet, unsuspecting of the horror that lay on the website I left it on (Addicting Games, something that I had been on many times before and gotten nothing). When I got back from a great race, I learned to my absolute shock that my computer had gotten a rogue antispyware called "Win Defrag". Well, I panicked, and shut down my computer. I didn't touch it last night or this morning, for fear of the harm it might cause to my computer.
.....In my business class this morning I looked it up online. Due to the schools web block, I couldn't see some results, like yahoo answers. However, I got the general sense that the virus was new, and very hard to get rid of. One has to run several spywre programs in safe mode that I didn't have. Or, for manual removal, one must go to registrys and .dll's to delete everything. I was very demotivated.
.....When I got home today I turned on my computer and tried to get my antispyware program, McAfee, workiong. It did not detect the virus. I then searched it on my computer files to delete it, but it wouldn't let me delete. Feeling even worse, I googled it again, and looked at the Yahoo answers from earlier, to see if it had anything else I could do. And I was presented with an answer. I booted my computer, ran it in safe mode with networking, and restored my PC to two days ago, when the virus didn't exist. It Worked.

"Thee "Win Defrag" virus hath been slain. It was a mighty foe, but no match for thee valient Sir System Reboot!"

So, discuss.

Last edited by TheSaint (2010-11-30 17:09:35)

kimmy123 · 2010-11-30 17:12:36

*claps* big_smile

recycle49 · 2010-11-30 17:14:17

Windows registry is the thing i hate about vireses.... A vires messed up mine... and now i cant install itunes and apple things. Good job, depend on what is i thing i know a program that could clean up your registry

steppenwulf · 2010-11-30 17:38:12

Good show old bean. I would've just asked my dad to delete it though lol.

12three · 2010-11-30 17:50:54

NEVER leave a site up. Especially gaming websites.

gettysburg11 · 2010-11-30 17:59:50

Nice message it gave you after it was gone. lol I don't think I'm going on Addicting Games any time soon though.

bananaman114 · 2010-11-30 18:23:18

Pfaah, I don't go on AddictingGames often, and this is an excuse to go on even Less XD I would panic too !:>

16Skittles · 2010-11-30 18:34:57

12three wrote:
NEVER leave a site up. Especially gaming websites.

why the first part? the 2nd I understand though, I got tons of fake antivirus stuff from armorgames.

TheSaint · 2010-11-30 20:44:43

Thanks guys. Hopefully everything is back in order, and I can just move on in my computer life. I may get a Mac as my next computer just because this is the second virus I have had and they are a pain in the...[insert body part of choice here].

RocksAndFire · 2010-11-30 20:47:51

TheSaint wrote:
Thanks guys. Hopefully everything is back in order, and I can just move on in my computer life. I may get a Mac as my next computer just because this is the second virus I have had and they are a pain in the...

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Telemachus · 2010-11-30 20:57:19

My computer recently got a virus too. It was called "Security Tool," I believe. It took forever to destroy it, but I finally did. big_smile

Kileymeister · 2010-11-30 20:59:01

I got A.V. Security Suite once. I don't even remember how we got rid of it.

urhungry · 2010-11-30 21:14:52

Why does AddictingGames give you viruses? It's a highly trusted site....

On another note, if you want to be rid of malware, install linux over 600 distrobutions and counting!

what-the · 2010-11-30 21:25:40

urhungry wrote:
Why does AddictingGames give you viruses? It's a highly trusted site....

On another note, if you want to be rid of malware, install linux over 600 distrobutions and counting!

If I wanted to get rid of a virus but couldn't do it I would boot up using linux and find the files and delete them. It's so much better than any windows OS.

TheSaint · 2010-12-01 06:34:44

urhungry wrote:
Why does AddictingGames give you viruses? It's a highly trusted site....

On another note, if you want to be rid of malware, install linux over 600 distrobutions and counting!

Somebody hacked into their website two nights ago and changed it to give out the virus. It's not the websites fault, as they were chosen as the host.

Blade-Edge · 2010-12-01 07:31:21

How do you know the virus was even on your computer?
You said you couldn't detect it

TheSaint · 2010-12-01 07:54:58

Blade-Edge wrote:
How do you know the virus was even on your computer?
You said you couldn't detect it

My antivirus couldn't detect it. However it was spamming my screen with fake alerts and stuff. I knew it was there, the thing protecting my computer didn't.

pen13 · 2010-12-07 14:28:15

gettysburg11 wrote:
Nice message it gave you after it was gone. I don't think I'm going on Addicting Games any time soon though.

i can't get onto shockwave.com and erros ceep on showing up on windows xp

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pen13 · 2010-12-07 14:31:19

16Skittles wrote:
12three wrote:
NEVER leave a site up. Especially gaming websites.
why the first part? the 2nd I understand though, I got tons of fake antivirus stuff from armorgames.

i play armorgames on moshimontsers.com

Last edited by pen13 (2010-12-07 14:31:52)

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