@chai2,
chai2 wrote:
I don't even know if I have a virus honestly.
Seemed I was just hijacked so I'd place an order.
But, I might take you up on that offer.
I think this is really great, because like I said, this stuff could help others that aren't technical enough to know what to do.
My purpose in life is to serve as a bad example to others.
"Don't do that billy, or you'll end up like chai."
I know you don't think it is a virus but it is. I have seen it before and I have helped quite a few peopel solve this same problem. Here is my theory.
There are software writers who write virus protection software and to get people to buy it they poison the well. Sort of like a doctor who infects everyone around them and then sells them the miracle cure. These writers make viruses that infect your computer and then on top of it, present the cure, buy their anti virus software so it'll fix your problem.
All it requires is checking your processes tab (if you can) some of these viruses actually disable the ability to get into the task manager. But there is still a way around that if this is the case. But anyway if you can get into the task manager on the processes tab look for a three lettered .exe process running. There might be multiples since there are occasionally legit programs that use 3 letter names for their processes but usually this virus has a three letter designation. However just note it and don't try to kill the process because it is designed to just restart once it is shut down.
What you have to do is go through your system registry line by line using the find method and physically delete all the references for that 3 lettered process. Got to be very careful though while doing this since the Find method looks for any combination of those three letters. So you could get false positives and you don't want to delete anything from the registry that you are not 100% is what you need to delete. You could damage critical windows system files or cause other applications to stop working if you delete the wrong registry enteries.
Once you clear out all the registry entries you can kill the process and regain control of your computer. On occasion you might wipe out the ability to launch any exe files. This virus tends to remove this dll file to prevent you from launching anti-virus software. So you have to reinsert the proper dll file for executing exe files again. You have to get the one for the version of windows you are running.
I know some of these details are not very specific. Just tossing it out there that there is a method to getting rid of this problem you are having without formatting your hardrive. Let me know if your other solutions work or solve the problem. If they don't and you would like more detailed steps to solving this problem. I'll hook you up.
