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    Question Evil virus from heck!

    No, we're not talking about the flu. It's a computer virus from heck.. VUNDO is the name. So far my mom hasn't been able to get rid of it with Zone Alarm, Norton, Mcafee, and so on. We've tried it all. It causes all these pop ups to come up and other damage as well. I am so frustrated. I need to be able to use my computer and keep up with e-mails mostly for job related stuff.

    I'd love to just be able to sit and work on my resume /surf the net without this mess. I've checked everything to get rid of this virus and it's not happening. Might be a reformat.*sigh*

    Anyone know anything about it? Stupid spyware!

    grr..
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    Re: Evil virus from heck!

    Vundo forced me to reformat.


    Have you tried AVG or AVAST?
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    Re: Evil virus from heck!

    Hi,

    Have you tried this?

    http://www.symantec.com/business/sec...112210-3747-99

    I always prefer to run these things from safe mode - google should be able to tell you how to get there on your system. On mine I just hit f8 like a demented monkey at startup till it does what I want.


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    Re: Evil virus from heck!

    just another reason why i run linux

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    Re: Evil virus from heck!

    I got Vundo a while back and took my computer to the Tech Support Center on Campus. They installed Malwarebytes (A free anti-malware thing you can download on the internet, just google it) and it got rid of the problem for me!

    Go NCSU Wolfpack!

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    Re: Evil virus from heck!

    Sometimes a re-format is the best bet. I frequently re-format to get rid of a lot of the gook that some how manages to get on my computer. Mac, PC, Linux....doesn't matter. they all get loaded with crap that slows ya down

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    Re: Evil virus from heck!

    i agree with the fact that whether its linux or windows its still going to get loaded down with crap after time, and a reformat is sometimes the easiest way to fix it fast, but ive been using norton 360 for about 7 months or so, and i love it, we have it on all 3 of our computers on our network, and nothing has gone wrong virus-wise, but we'll see how it does in the future

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    Re: Evil virus from heck!

    Quote Originally Posted by TheaN526 View Post
    No, we're not talking about the flu. It's a computer virus from heck.. VUNDO is the name. So far my mom hasn't been able to get rid of it with Zone Alarm, Norton, Mcafee, and so on. We've tried it all. It causes all these pop ups to come up and other damage as well. I am so frustrated. I need to be able to use my computer and keep up with e-mails mostly for job related stuff.

    I'd love to just be able to sit and work on my resume /surf the net without this mess. I've checked everything to get rid of this virus and it's not happening. Might be a reformat.*sigh*

    Anyone know anything about it? Stupid spyware!

    grr..
    Thea
    You know i can not understand why some one can create a virus and live with themselves .Why create something that basicly kills someones computer . I think when someone gets caught doing this crap they should be beat to death slowly .I hope you can get your computer back somehow.
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    Re: Evil virus from heck!

    AVG and Ad-Aware are what you need.
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    Re: Evil virus from heck!

    Quote Originally Posted by Nate View Post
    Sometimes a re-format is the best bet. I frequently re-format to get rid of a lot of the gook that some how manages to get on my computer. Mac, PC, Linux....doesn't matter. they all get loaded with crap that slows ya down
    Reformatting your drive constantly is not really an answer.

    Prevention is key. A GOOD Antivirus program is the way to go.
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