WORM VIRUS!Follow

My computer has the worm and is unuseable now.
I can't post here or play the FFXI anymore.
I have to wait til its fixed for $100 before I can start again.
Norton Antivirus, McAffee nothing caught that new virus and won't get ride of it. shuts down the computer 40 seconds after connected to the internet.
The virus was sent to me from my allakhazam email address.
beware of any emails you are getting from yours. unlist your address's and don't even accept allakhazam email.

I'm posting this from work computer to warn all of you.
this is very aggrivating to me cause now i have to wait 2 weeks to get it fixed.
Virus makers should be shot.

since i don't have another computer to download it myself I don't know what other choice I have. this computer is on a network that prevents downloading anything just surfing is allowed.

After you get your computer up and running make sure you get all of the latest security patches from microsoft. Make sure you have your firewall portection turned on as well (XP). It is in Local Area network properties, under the advanced tab. Then read and follow this, most virus's can be prevented just by having your computer up to date.

Additional info for you.

https://everquest.allakhazam.com/forum.html?forum=25&mid=1083477863178907715&num=0

LoL, you really dont know anything about computers if you belive that.

a full format will blow the entire HD away, not just the file system. that includes the MBR (master boot record)

fyi, no M$ system has root files as there is no such thing as root in M$. root = *nix lowest (or highest depending on how you want to read the tree) level in the tree. nothing can be deeper into the system then root in a *nix system.

so put in your winXP CD, fire it up and do a full install, including format (not quick) NTFS and your virus/worm will be gone. nothing to be left behind.

if you really dont trust, it then pop in a win98SE startup disk with fdisk on it and blow away the partitions on your HD, then recreat them. this makes a fresh MBR in addition to other partion table information on the HD.

after fdisk you can always format c: /s/u

IIRC that is the proper dos command to format the HD as a system drive and unconditional. in other words clean everything off the HD without exceptions. make it all go poof bye bye.



how old is this system you are working on? an 8088? since win3.1 days you have NOT, i repeat NOT had to do that to clean any HD, or install any M$ OS. that is unless you are using legacy hardware. now if you are running win95a, you might still have some legacy hardware that is old enough to have to deal with that BS, but if you are running anything newer then 7 years old you will not have that problem.

I have an HP laptop...
nuff said.
the thing has XP and had norton antivirus running with April 20th as the latest update.
When i scan it finds the virus but can't delete it.
I tried 3 different removal programs and tools and none worked.
i have over 800 mp3 files 700 picture files and 8 games in that laptop not to mention other stuff that would take that 3 months to put back in to that laptop.
the basics factory default in the system isn't just windows XP there are 19 other programs that took hours to install in the first place. 3 of them I had to run while i slept over night, especially downloading the online update, so it would take quite a while to reinstall everything. the windows update alone takes a week of downloading.

I think the sad part was I was this clueless about computers at one point in time also.

Look, whatever makes you happy, pay the $100.

I would probably have clawed my face off waiting for 1 mp3 to download with a "26k connection", don't want to think about what I'd do downloading 800.

Edited, Mon May 3 18:12:24 2004 by pikko

Get a Wi-Fi card and go to freakin Starbucks. Would still cost you less than the $100.