SSLtech
Well-known member
A very gloomy 'Hi' to all,
Yesterday my computer got smacked with some malware. It started while I was uploading some photos to photobucket, and it has pretty much buggered the computer, which wil now not boot up.
A small smattering of what it did:
It disabled CTRL-ALT-DEL (task manager) so I could not see what was running in the bckgrnd. (tricky.)
It wiped clean all the system restore points in XP, (clever.)
It replaced the wallpaper with a 'your system is infected.... click here to run spyware check' message, which is made to look official. (I'm not falling for that...)
It opened up LOTS of Internet Explorer windows....
It Hijacked my homepage
It REDIRECTS links from Yahoo and Google searches to 'preferred' sponsor sites instead....
So I ran Ad-aware AND Spybot-S&D, They recognised the issues, and identified them correctly, but after several tries, about six hours struggling, and several apparently automatic re-infections, the computer now will NOT boot up.
I am typing this on a borrowed mac laptop at a local wi-fi coffee shop, it's the only net and computer access which I have right now.
I am S-O-O-O-O screwed.
My tax data is all in an excel file, on the C drive, and tax day is almost upon us.
As of now I'm desperate. My Only hope is to drag the computer into work and throw myself at the mercy of the web-geeks... but my overriding desperation is to get the data copied from the C and D drives before they do ANYTHING else to it.
Bugger.
Of course this had to happen RIGHT when Rochey and I are trying to set up the Expat audio stuff... and some future EXPAT design stuff is on there also...
Please bear with me, and communicate through Rochey for any expat/Turbo stuff... I am largely unable to do anything at the moment.
Keith
Yesterday my computer got smacked with some malware. It started while I was uploading some photos to photobucket, and it has pretty much buggered the computer, which wil now not boot up.
A small smattering of what it did:
It disabled CTRL-ALT-DEL (task manager) so I could not see what was running in the bckgrnd. (tricky.)
It wiped clean all the system restore points in XP, (clever.)
It replaced the wallpaper with a 'your system is infected.... click here to run spyware check' message, which is made to look official. (I'm not falling for that...)
It opened up LOTS of Internet Explorer windows....
It Hijacked my homepage
It REDIRECTS links from Yahoo and Google searches to 'preferred' sponsor sites instead....
So I ran Ad-aware AND Spybot-S&D, They recognised the issues, and identified them correctly, but after several tries, about six hours struggling, and several apparently automatic re-infections, the computer now will NOT boot up.
I am typing this on a borrowed mac laptop at a local wi-fi coffee shop, it's the only net and computer access which I have right now.
I am S-O-O-O-O screwed.
My tax data is all in an excel file, on the C drive, and tax day is almost upon us.
As of now I'm desperate. My Only hope is to drag the computer into work and throw myself at the mercy of the web-geeks... but my overriding desperation is to get the data copied from the C and D drives before they do ANYTHING else to it.
Bugger.
Of course this had to happen RIGHT when Rochey and I are trying to set up the Expat audio stuff... and some future EXPAT design stuff is on there also...
Please bear with me, and communicate through Rochey for any expat/Turbo stuff... I am largely unable to do anything at the moment.
Keith