laptop is dead

[_paralyzed_]

I haven't been on in a day or so. My laptop died and I don't have much time up to be on my desktop.

A computer geek friend of mine posted a query on facebook wondering what the acronym "dsfargeg" stood for. Since I have oodles of spare time I figured I could google the shit out of it and get to the definition of said acronym.

Well, every search led to forums, and every path I went down led to "this user has been banned from this forum". The urban dictionary definition is something about spam.

I clicked on a youtube video that I stumbled upon and BLAMMO I had a virus. It was one of those fake virus programs that pops up and tells you that you're computer is infected. It has taken over my browser and won't allow me to get online, it will only allow me to go to their site and buy their software.

Now that this happened I remember it was shortly after searching for this term that my computer locked up last time. It may be unrelated and just a coincidence, I don't know, what do y'all think?

What would have happened if I bought that software? My money goes to a nigerian bank account and my hard drive starts on fire?

It's frickin' annoying. I had good AV software on there too.

So go search for dsfargeg. See what happens

[lincpimp]

Originally Posted by _paralyzed_

Now that this happened I remember it was shortly after searching for this term that my computer locked up last time. It may be unrelated and just a coincidence, I don't know, what do y'all think?

Slow learner....

honestly even with good AV software viruses will always be slightly ahead in the game and sometimes out smart it.you could blank the whole HD but youd lose everything.sorry.--josh

[BrianG]

At work just two weeks ago, there was some malware people were getting that looked like a legit AV software. It exploited some IE security hole and installed itself as a browser helper object, which it turn opened more back doors to install itself as a program. Anyway, it would "scan" and of course find some viruses (which it put there) and then of course only thier "AV software" would be able to get rid of it. Not only that, but the only website you could go to was their page to buy the crapware. And you couldn't open device manager, or Norton. Low life scums.

We use Norton at work and it never saw anything was wrong. I had to figure out what was going on and remove everything manually. What a PITA. Required booting into safe mode, removing reg entries, stopping services, removing browser helper objects, deleting offending files (which renamed themselves at each iteration), etc. I then had to write a procedure so our other IT staff could help fix people's PCs.

The easiest way for a typical user to maybe fix these types of things: If your computer is bootable at all, get a copy of Spybot, update it, then reboot into safe mode. Run Spybot while in safe mode. Hopefully it will get rid of everything.

[suicideneil]

Or mail the laptop to Brian.

[Arct1k]

Harrold - Just send it to me AGAIN! LOL

[PBO]

If I were in the anti virus business...I'd be writing viruses. Not that I'm cynical or anything

[Slowkrawl]

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/comb...e-combofix#use

Give that a go. If your computer is in really rough shape you might need to do it in safe mode. Read the tutorial first.


I have several anti-virus/spybot programs(thanks to dickyt!) soo that I can surf lots of pron. Errrm I mean RC sites. With pron on them.

Sounds like the same crap that got on my desktop. It was hard to get rid off, I run NOD32 and it has an inspector mode. Running that in safe mode ID'ed 3 files that didn't belong - had nonsensical names, but the date and time made me certain it was that AV crap. Deleted them and it was gone. Til the next time, got it again about 3 days later.

MalawareBytes anti malware prgm (freebe) IDs it and allows you to delete it. I haven't had it again since installing MalawareBytes.