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Stupid computers. Hates them, hates them precioussssss.

OK, maybe I just hate this one :p

My copy of AVG Free stopped working. I uninstalled and tried re-installing it from the file I originally installed it from. It's corrupted, says my PC, bugger off and find another download! So I did. And every.single.one refuses to install. Good grief, they can't all be corrupted! *glares at PC*

So I rummaged and tried another free virus program - and that misfired so badly it took me 15 minutes and 3 reboots to uninstall it! It kept finding a virus called something like XPACK -SR/something.XPACK and kept finding it, over and over and over and over and over again. So I'd keep getting the alert box telling me "Look Mummy, look what I've found!" which buggered everything up nicely and meant it was a pain in the arse getting anything else to run.

I've got it uninstalled now but clearly I have a virus and, it would seem to me, it's fubar'ing my anti-virus downloads. Can anyone recommend another free anti-virus program? Something a tad more robust?
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posted by [personal profile] jebbypal at 03:40pm on 28/05/2007
I don't know what to tell you -- I did do some research that suggested letting one of the online services scan your computer. Otherwise, your best bet will be to try to do virus scans in safe mode and all.

http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070129134649AAg9oDo

http://forums.techguy.org/security/571300-virus-making-zone-alarm-go.html

http://forum.antivir.de/thread.php?postid=185681&sid=146ecdbe594e9f4a4b47674996e51f13#post185681

@BartCo: please do the following:
- disable System restore: right-click on My computer -> choose Properties -> go to System restore tab and check "Turn off System restore..."
- restart the computer in safe mode
- perform a full scan (all files) and clean all infections
- restart the computer normally and enable back System restore

http://www.avira.com/en/threats/section/fulldetails/id_vir/3488/tr_crypt.xpack.gen.html (description of the trojan, but no useful info).
 
posted by (anonymous) at 05:59pm on 28/05/2007
*nods* I found a few of those, they're not terribly helpful in that it seems to require me to download more software which I'm reluctant to do. However, I have managed to perform a system restore, which hasn't restored AVG to me but has at least solved the CPU usage problem which made me look for a virus in the first place. If I can just get an anti-virus program working, I'll be ok I think....
 
posted by [identity profile] mitchy.livejournal.com at 06:02pm on 28/05/2007
And apparently at this point I wasn't logged into LJ *grumbles* :P

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