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My friend is having problems so I'm going to try to de-virus her PC - does anyone know what virus would:

* Prevent access to the internet
* Disable Anti-Virus Protection (McAfee this time around)
* Crash Programs Often


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05-26-2005 09:31 PM
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RE: Heling out a friend with viruses
my friend had something like this..

it disabled access to registry as well..

i told him to enter msconfig into the run box


and disable the random stuff in the startup tab..
05-26-2005 09:34 PM
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Well she can get to the registry.
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RE: Heling out a friend with viruses
Has she tried running a virus scan in safe mode? There shouldn't be anything disabling it in safe mode.

Also, you could suggest system restore.
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Has she tried running a virus scan in safe mode? There shouldn't be anything disabling it in safe mode.

Also, you could suggest system restore.



McAfee won't start unless it's auto launched and trust me - System Restore won't do it :P
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RE: Heling out a friend with viruses
can you boot in safe mode with networking?
if so.. can just surf to trendmicro house call and run a virus scan through that.. also might just tring burning another anti virus program to a cd.. and installing another one since macafee is disabled cause of other viruses.
if that works, run adware, and hopefully you have systemworks to repair a crap load of things that the viruses would have done
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RE: Heling out a friend with viruses
i would suggest installing avast! antivirus and running a boot time scan with it. then, if you/she dosnt like it, uninstall it. I persoanlly find its way better than norton AV '05
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RE: Heling out a friend with viruses
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Has she tried running a virus scan in safe mode? There shouldn't be anything disabling it in safe mode.

Also, you could suggest system restore.

yea never do system restore as it will not work..
hmm it mite be a trojan that maybe she made it run..trojans can delete ur whole HDD, but i'd say she maybe has a somekind of a very tough worm because it uses network holes to reduplicate itself and make everything slow.. or she just has a virus thats makin her comp confused



McAfee won't start unless it's auto launched and trust me - System Restore won't do it :P

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RE: Heling out a friend with viruses
some versions of bropia mess with internet settings and router settings

ur friend prolly does have bropia...look at what it disables
http://www3.ca.com/securityadvisor/virusinfo/virus.aspx?id=42957

mcafee

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RE: Heling out a friend with viruses
Safe Mode. That's your lifeline. If you can't get into that without the virus screwing up McAfee, then you should probably reformat.
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