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Just for the record, this post is also in the general hardware forums.
I need help from anyone willing.
I got a virus about 4 days ago and I can't get rid of it. I had avast! antivirus, and it seemed to be every thirty minutes the warning would pop up that I was under attack. I would move to chest or just delete, but a half hour later it would come back. Here is the specific line i got:
Win32:Zlob-BN [Trj]
Whenever I go on IE, it brings me to a page saying I am infected, blah blah, and prompts me to download the software and run a scan.
I checked it out on google, and the best advice i could find was to go into system restore and disable it to make sure that the virus didn't get into there, then update my virus definitions and do a deep scan, deleting anything in the registry that said Trojan Zlob. I also switched from avast antivirus to a free symantec program from my college site. So i did all that, and symantec found four Zlob files, and I deleted them. I don't know if that means it is gone from the registry or not, but here's my current sit-rep: I no longer get the same warning popping up that I am under attack that avast was giving me every thirty minutes, but I don't know if it's cause symantec does things differently or if something is fixed. However, right now I am using mozilla (and from now on probably will) because whenever I use IE my homepage is changed to the virus' web page, and even though I can go into options and switch it to google again, but next time i log on it brings me to that same page. Mozilla is fine.
So that's what i know. Everything else i found to get rid of the virus (the instructions I followed were from symantec's website concerning that family of virus') is pretty user specific, it seems.
Oh yeah, and before I did all this I tried a system restore about four times, as far back as a month and a half ago, but windows says there was an error and they can't restore my computer. Could this mean the virus is alreasy in there?
Any and all help would be much appreciated. I will reformat if I must, but want to avoid at all costs, obviously. Thanks again.
I need help from anyone willing.
I got a virus about 4 days ago and I can't get rid of it. I had avast! antivirus, and it seemed to be every thirty minutes the warning would pop up that I was under attack. I would move to chest or just delete, but a half hour later it would come back. Here is the specific line i got:
Win32:Zlob-BN [Trj]
Whenever I go on IE, it brings me to a page saying I am infected, blah blah, and prompts me to download the software and run a scan.
I checked it out on google, and the best advice i could find was to go into system restore and disable it to make sure that the virus didn't get into there, then update my virus definitions and do a deep scan, deleting anything in the registry that said Trojan Zlob. I also switched from avast antivirus to a free symantec program from my college site. So i did all that, and symantec found four Zlob files, and I deleted them. I don't know if that means it is gone from the registry or not, but here's my current sit-rep: I no longer get the same warning popping up that I am under attack that avast was giving me every thirty minutes, but I don't know if it's cause symantec does things differently or if something is fixed. However, right now I am using mozilla (and from now on probably will) because whenever I use IE my homepage is changed to the virus' web page, and even though I can go into options and switch it to google again, but next time i log on it brings me to that same page. Mozilla is fine.
So that's what i know. Everything else i found to get rid of the virus (the instructions I followed were from symantec's website concerning that family of virus') is pretty user specific, it seems.
Oh yeah, and before I did all this I tried a system restore about four times, as far back as a month and a half ago, but windows says there was an error and they can't restore my computer. Could this mean the virus is alreasy in there?
Any and all help would be much appreciated. I will reformat if I must, but want to avoid at all costs, obviously. Thanks again.