Windows Vista Security 2012 Scam.

[vereybowring]

Jun 19, 2011 21:55:29 GMT Perpetua said:

Every cloud as they say Roachie, it was easier than I thought, vaping 2 devices at the same time that is.

[hifistud]

Jun 19, 2011 21:55:29 GMT Perpetua said:

Every cloud as they say Roachie, it was easier than I thought, vaping 2 devices at the same time that is.

Aye, a 72mg hit often helps...

[Perpetua]

It certainly did and is highly recommended by me. . . .

[shamreez]

let me know if it is not fixed by friday perpy..

Will try to come in on Sat or Sun and take a look.

I cant promise I can fix it but I do promise that I would not break it...

[Perpetua]

Thank you Sham, very much appreciated.

I got as far as saving the restore file gubbins from the instructions Roachie posted . . . then I couldn't figure out what the heck to do next. :-[

[FreedomVape]

Oh dear not good Perps. However, I have mcafee antivirus which has fixed this virus on a range of pc's for mates with same virus, normally downloaded from dodgy sites.

You can get a free 6 month version of the complete mcafee 2011 antivirus tool if you press like on their facebook page and download from there. I'm not a big facebook fan but have used that product for years and has picked up pieces of rubbish some of the other big products have undetected.

Sorry mods for linking to product and feel free to remove.

[Perpetua]

Thanks Kev, I'll maybe give that a go when I've this sorted out . . . would that I were on a dodgy site enjoying myself when this happened . . . I had two windows open, Skype & Hotmail.

Seems it's quite a common nasty from what I've been reading.

[Perpetua]

Think I'm sorted!

A neighbour has been round tonight and done some stuff to the laptop that got it going again. Then a deep scan which took an hour and a half to do. This found some nasties which have now been dealt with.

Then! Emptied my Recycle Bin . . . something I've never done in 3 years of having the laptop, as I thought once it went into the bin, it was spirited away into the cyber ether. :-[

Anyway, it's running quite well now.

Thank you for all the advice & kind offers of assistance, it really is most appreciated . . . . especial thanks to Sham for offering to come round at the weekend to have a look at it.

[roachieuk (aka eciggery2011)]

Glad you got it sorted now perp im a bit of virus geek lol and have around 7 programmes monotirng activity and it was all down to that horrid virus what you had but as i said that was when i was running XP.As that virus really is the bugger i had to sort out my registry and do a few deep scans to get rid.

So glad you got it working again.

[Perpetua]

Thank you Roachie, me too . . . I'm afraid I blunder through using a computer most of the time, I'm going to do another scan tomorrow with this, Blakey kindly recommended it.

www.microsoft.com/security/pc-security/malware-removal.aspx

Tonight though I'm on overload with it all.

[roachieuk (aka eciggery2011)]

Ah yes thats an excellent proggy well med core but it does the job i use that and about 3 others lol im a bit of a clean freak lol.

But hes pointed you in the right direction so glad you got it sorted tho as if you dont know what your doing its all a bit of a headache.

But anytime you get stuck again give us a shout and hopefully can get it sorted lol.

[FreedomVape]

Jun 21, 2011 21:14:20 GMT Perpetua said:

Think I'm sorted!

Then! Emptied my Recycle Bin . . . something I've never done in 3 years of having the laptop, as I thought once it went into the bin, it was spirited away into the cyber ether. :-[

I can see why scylla complains about dishes left in the sink, I suppose you thought the dish fairies sorted these also.

[Perpetua]

In the absence of a man . . . I have a dishwasher that does that Kev!

Mark, my neighbour, was quite horrified at the state of my Recycle Bin it must be said . . . I felt quite the slattern. :-[

[blakey]

Ok now download this free little program www.filehippo.com/download_ccleaner/ and run it weekly. It has a basic registry cleaner within that does a pretty good job of dealing with the essential registry issues and it will wipe the browsers history ect.
Then click this www.filehippo.com/updatechecker/ and download a little program that will ensure that all you programs are up to date on your pc. Simple effective and free

[Perpetua]

Will do Blakey, thank you!