LaZodiac

[Nano]

LaZodiac: Nano, I'm in a bit of a need for assistence
LaZodiac: mycomputer's infecte with a pretty bad virus. I'm in safemode and nothing I was suggested actually works
LaZodiac: I'm asking you before you are my only hope =(
LaZodiac: Can you even get this?
LaZodiac: I don't even know
LaZodiac: I'm probably not actually getting throu
Nano: Oh hey sorry didn't see this... I'm so sorry, I don't actually know what to do! The last time I had a virus I had to reinstall my OS, everything got nuked
LaZodiac: =(
LaZodiac: this virus deleted my taskmanger
LaZodiac: manager
LaZodiac: makes every program bring up the "you must select a thing to use this program with"
LaZodiac: if possible, could you tell the forums what has happend to me and I don't know when or if I'll be back any time soon
LaZodiac: and again, I'm sorry for bothering you
LaZodiac: thank you, Nano
Nano: It's okay... I hope everything turns out alright =(
LaZodiac: thanks Nano


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[Fredaintdead]

Awww, poor LaLa. I hope everything works out for her real soon. *hugs* :smallfrown:

[Dvil]

Oh no, this is awful! I really hope everything works out ok for her :smalleek:

[LaZodiac]

Good news! If I rightclick and press "run as administrator" everything works. Taskmanager is still completly DEAD though, so I...kinda don't consider myself "fixed" yet. I can still talk and stuff, but like...I could die at any moment, I guess.

Worse comes to worse I system restore. I remember my passwords.

[Fredaintdead]

Good news! If I rightclick and press "run as administrator" everything works. Taskmanager is still completly DEAD though, so I...kinda don't consider myself "fixed" yet. I can still talk and stuff, but like...I could die at any moment, I guess.

Worse comes to worse I system restore. I remember my passwords.

Well, that's good news at least. Good luck with getting it completely fixed. *hugs*

[LaZodiac]

I would like to say, thanks for the support everybody. I honestly didn't think it would be this much, and now that I realize I somehow woke up at 6:25 am, if I woke up later this might have more posts in it and that's makin me blush :smalltongue::smallredface:

[Dvil]

Well, don't blush too much. The universe can't cope with that much adorableness :smallwink:

In more related news, I really hope everything gets itself sorted out soon!

[Malfunctioned]

Yay! You're partially undeadified! :smallbiggrin:

[Worira]

Hm, this is ungrand.

[Starbuck_II]

I just restarted my computer and it went away when it happened to me.

Did you dl something recently?

[LaZodiac]

Nope, I have not downloaded anything recently. I'll try restarting, my anti virus scan picked up and trojans and about 700 tracking cookies this morning, so with those gone maybe I can restart and everything will be fixed. I have no idea though, I'm not tech savvy.

[pffh]

If a virus gets a hold of your system you really can't trust it anymore. I'd always recommend the "nuke it from orbit" method (full format and OS reinstall) just to be sure.

[LaZodiac]

That's the thing though. The second most tech savvy guy I know (the first isn't on yet) said that he's never seen a virus like this. He's seen hijacking of the task manager, hijacking of the internet explorer, not deletion of the taskmanager, and not such a simple loophole as "run as admin" to open up internet explorer. It's apparently "Odd" with quotation marks and a capital O.

[Ranger Mattos]

Hm, I was wondering why I hadn't seen you on for a few days. You might want to get it checked out by a professional computer geek (by which I mean take it into a PC repair store).

[Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll]

Also, there are brilliant people on virus-fighting internet forums who have the answers to everything. Worth seeing what you can find...

[LaZodiac]

Good news and newsbad (sometimes my laptop's touch pad gets over sensitive and**** like that happens. Decided to keep it because it was funny).

Good news: According to ZombyWoof, my number one tech friend and former/current Geek Squad guy, has revealed to me the problemis a Java bug, specificly in SSV Agent 2. Taskmanager cna be opened by finding the file itself and running as admin.

News bad: I've done everything he's said and nothing fixed my problems. So yha, computer is still F'ed up the A, but atleast I know there is no actual problems.

[ZombyWoof]

Yeah this isn't a virus from what I can find, just some really, really poor coding and interactions between Vista and Java.

Honestly upgrading to windows 7 should fix the problem, and even if it didn't changing IE 8 to IE 9 should also fix the problem.

What's going on is Explorer is... confused... at the moment :smallwink: And since IE is connected with everything, well... yeah.

You probably shouldn't have been using IE in the first place :smallwink:

(Also SSVHelper is a helper class which is designed to help IE run java.

Alternatively you may try turning off User Account Control :smalltongue: I do that anyways!

[LaZodiac]

UAC is off, which makes things all the more confusing.

Also, now that I know WHY IE9's installer is borked, I could work it properly. I just don't wanna right now XP

[Ranger Mattos]

and even if it didn't changing IE 8 to IE 9 should also fix the problem.

Or get Firefox.

Seriously, get Firefox. Right now.

[LaZodiac]

I've tried it before and highly disliked it, actually.

[factotum]

Is this your problem, and does the link fix it?

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/950505

[LaZodiac]

Nope, that's not my problem, unfortunatly. Thanks for trying though =D

[Recaiden]

Glad to hear that you're back a little bit. You would have been greatly missed.

[LaZodiac]

A part of me is still surprised that that would be true, Recaiden.

[Recaiden]

You should trade that part away, yeah?

[LaZodiac]

Yha, I should. No one's willing to take it though.

[Blue Ghost]

A part of me is still surprised that that would be true, Recaiden.

We would be missing an awesome DM and an awesome friend.


Yha, I should. No one's willing to take it though.

I would. A bit of disembodied illusion would make a valuable spell reagent.

[ZombyWoof]

I've tried it before and highly disliked it, actually.
Then at least try chrome XD

[absolmorph]

Yha, I should. No one's willing to take it though.
I would!


We would be missing an awesome DM and an awesome friend.

I would. A bit of disembodied illusion would make a valuable spell reagent.
It would, wouldn't it? I was actually intending to study it so I can better understand it.


Then at least try chrome XD
Chrome is pretty good. It's rather similar to IE, as far as I can recall. There are some major differences, but most of them (in my opinion, at least) are improvements, and can also mostly be changed if you don't like 'em.

[randman22222]

Are you still having to run everything as an administrator? There could be a registry edit that would make running .exes back to normal, but editing the registry is a bit like performing intensive surgery on Windows in that you can easily screw things up.

If you want, I could look up what the values regarding .exes should be, and try to walk you through setting them to their defaults.

[LaZodiac]

Yha, I've still got that problem, but at this point I don't mind anymore. I was only really concerned when I thought it was an out and out virus.

Thanks for the offer, though I doubt even with your assistence I'd be able to surgerymicate this computer.

[Maralais]

I'm thinking about a worm infection on the internets, because a friend of mine had a similar problem due to a worm. I believe formatting is the only solution.