i have a virus

[junebug]

i have a virus. i may have to completely reboot my computer and i'll lose everything. i tried to download a new virus thing from Comcast and it won't let me. i keep getting error messages every time i try to. porn and viagra popups, warning messages saying i'm being attacked. i'm freaked out. i left the room and came back to all this. i don't know what happened!!! so i'm gone for a while you know why. i'm sooooo :cursing::cursing:

[Sharon Kay]

:hugs: Hope you get it fixed!!!

Try this (trend micro's housecall) as well to see if it helps:

http://housecall.trendmicro.com/

...and Malware Bytes ...

Good luck!

[Darcy Baldwin]

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/virusemoval/remove-antivirus-live

This is what we used to get it off ours, Cori.

I'm pretty sure mine came from 4shared.

[neenee]

Oh no baby! Sorry you are having puter issues!

[junebug]

Well, i think DH fixed it. he went and did the system restore for a few days back. so far so good. he said if that didnt work then he'd have to completey reboot the computer. i had my fingers crossed! now i'm off the comcast site to download the new Norton antivirus they're offering. yay! no more virus! so glad my dh is computer savvy, lol. whatever it was, it was attached to my old Mcafee antivirus. it kept offering me some other program to get rid of the viruses and it wouldn't let me uninstal Mcafee or install the new one. wierd......

[junebug]

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/virusemoval/remove-antivirus-live

This is what we used to get it off ours, Cori.

I'm pretty sure mine came from 4shared.

that is exactly what i had!! only it was called Antivirus Soft, but looked exactly like that. stupid virus, lol.

[Darcy Baldwin]

Corey -

It wasn't attached to your antivirus program..it gets into your computer and uses it to make you think it's legit. It's not. We tried the system restore, and it didn't work. Try those directions...it worked like a charm and we saved everything.

[junebug]

thanks for that link, Darcy. i'm scanning now. i swear dont people have better things to do than create viruses and/or scam people out of money?

[lovely1m]

Ugh, those things are terrible cause people who don't know a thing about computers fall for them all the time.

[junebug]

i know better, lol. but it was frustrating cause every time DH would try something else the popups would prevent it. so the restore worked but now i'm running that scan thingy to get rid of them for good. it's been running for an hour and 24 minutes so far and its not done yet. and its found 182 things infected!