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Posted by C J. on June 7, 2006, 12:43 am
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> CJofVP AKA CJofVP@hotmail.com in alt.comp.anti-virus on 6/6/2006 after
> much thought,came up with this jewel:
>
>> Lastnight, I was finishing up doing some damage cleanup and repairs
>> on my PC. Since copying windows to this new drive, this thing has
>> been running like a bucket of (pick your expletive.)! Because of
>> recent re-activation problems with the folks in Redmond (product key
>> issue)... I'm leary to do inplace repairs or a clean install.
>>
>> However, It seems C:\Recycler folders in Admin and owner are
>> reporting themselves corrupted in safe mode. In normal opperation,
>> all the trashcans are fine. I decided to go to bitdefender online and
>> scan, because I had the feeling due to performance issues, this was
>> the work of some sort of viral activity, that AVG hasn't been picking
>> up.
>>
>> Having been there before, I figured the viral defs would update to
>> current and then I'd press scan. No update happened... So I press
>> scan and IE freezes up.
>>
>> Killed IE with task manager, and then went into manage addons -
>> through Internet settings, and found the Bdoscan8 Active X control
>> was damaged. So I deleted it and went back to bitdefender to get a
>> new control and hopefully rescan.
>>
>> That seemed to do the trick at first. It updated and I pressed scan.
>> Bitdefender was doing fine until it hit C:\Documents and Settings\(my
>> name)\local settings\application data\ on my account. Bitdefender
>> got locked into a terminal scan loop inside of an orphaned \MBSA
>> folder that apparently didn't get uninstalled. I took that folder
>> out... along with the History folder, killed everything, rebooted..
>> went back to bitdefender. It found 2 viruses, deleted 4 and reported
>> not being able to remove 1. I thought wow... because it was in my
>> hotmail that I've set up on Outlook Express. I seldom use hotmail
>> anymore these days.
>>
>> But - it locked up again, at the end of the test and I didn't get my
>> report... I went back into Outlook Express and emptied the bulk
>> folder where Bitdefender said I'd find Trojan.Agent.SS ... and
>> rescanned again.
>>
>> ???? I'm at my wits end here with whats going on.
> ******************Reply Separator*****************
> Have you tried system restore?
> I have some cleaning tools listed on my site.
> You may have to bite the bullet on this one.
> Burn a copy of all important files.
> Once you get it cleaned up-stop using Internet Explorer and Outlook
> Express. Try Thunderbird(there are extensions that will allow you to
> receive hotmail and yahoo mail) for your mail and Firefox or Opera for
> a browser.
>
> max
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No.. unfortunately for me, the restore points were all corrupted. So I
dumped those, and made a new one before I went to the microsucks..er
softs.. online scanner today to test IEs Active X controls again. I was
impressed , even their registry scanner must of straightened a few things
out, for it found about 200 obscure \interface...\typlib entries and
removed them. At least some file associations are back to normal (whatever
normal is for a corrupted system,) from what I can tell. That maxblast 4
drive copy software is (expletive)! I hope Seagate plans to scrap that
software once their acquisiton of Maxtor is complete.
As for me - I'm about ready to get a full retail version of XP pro, and do a
clean install.
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