Simviation Forum - Bloody virus

Apr 16^th, 2004 at 8:44pm

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This keeps popping up, but scanning this directory using AVG comes up with nothing, and aparently, it's not accessible to the user so I can't manually delete it.

Can someone please help me out? I'm running out of ideas, and it's annoying the hell outta me Angry

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Reply #1 - Apr 17^th, 2004 at 2:45am

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Hi Andrew!

Restart the computer in Safe Mode and run AVG across the whole system Wink

That should let AVG find the virus and heal/delete it.

Jon 8)

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Reply #2 - Apr 17^th, 2004 at 3:27am

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Thanks for the suggestion

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Reply #3 - Apr 17^th, 2004 at 4:40am

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No problem, if it doesn't work let me know Wink

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Reply #4 - Apr 26^th, 2004 at 12:52pm

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I tried booting into safe mode, but AVG refuses to run in Safe mode.

Any other ideas?

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Reply #5 - Apr 26^th, 2004 at 1:03pm

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Hmm that's very odd. Can you boot into safe mode with Command Prompt? If so, do that and run AVG from the command line...

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Reply #6 - Apr 26^th, 2004 at 5:51pm

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AVG is a windows application with a Graphical Interface, how could it work on a commandline???

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Reply #7 - Apr 27^th, 2004 at 1:57pm

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Is there not a command line program that comes with AVG? Or is that just with the paid version?

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Reply #8 - Apr 28^th, 2004 at 1:19am

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Not that I know of

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Reply #9 - Apr 28^th, 2004 at 1:54am

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OK, well the only thing I can suggest apart from getting a different virus scanner (or paying for AVG to get the proper GUI) is to use an online virus scanner, such as:

http://housecall.antivirus.com/housecall/start_frame.asp
http://housecall.trendmicro.com/housecall/start_corp.asp
or
http://www.pandasoftware.com/activescan/com/activescan_principal.htm

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Reply #10 - Apr 28^th, 2004 at 2:41am

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Trying it right now.

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Reply #11 - Apr 28^th, 2004 at 9:18pm

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I think it worked. It removed a trojan virus, and I havn't seen the pop-up at all today. My hard drive free space also went from 100 mb to 400mb.

Thanks Geforce!

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Reply #12 - Apr 29^th, 2004 at 1:56am

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Good one Andrew. Trojan horses are the worst of the lot IMO. Glad you got rid of it Wink

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