So the other day my wife says to me"I scaned my computer for viruses and it found some". I think whoa what virus scanner? It turns out she had installed some cutsie search bar in firefox that had all of those stupid smileys. You know what I'm talking about total trojan hijack virus crap. The "virus" scan she had used was a minimal firefox pop up that looked like the "My computer" screen with red flashing "virus found" by the fake C drive (click here to install more crap). Anyways I booted into safe mode and with a combination of spybot, avg, avast clamwin and hijackthis I was able to weed out 9 of the 10 places where the virus loaded from. For the life of me I couldn't get rid of the last place. Which was in the HKLM/software/microsoft/windows/run part of the registry. If I deleted the reg key before I could shutdown the virus had put it back in. Now the right answer is to pull the drive mount it in the other machine and delete the file. That was way too much work. So what I did was redneck virus removal. I opened regedit and deleted the key. I then timed how long the virus took to rewrite the key into the registry. That was about 3 seconds. So being lazy I deleted the key and waited .5 seconds and pulled the system plug. I rebooted and the damn thing hadn't loaded. Kinda funny really
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hehe did that a few times.
Cant beat the good old fashioned, pull the plug method.
I'm not insane. I'm just overwhelming!
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Nice mapes. I woulda been holding my breath until I saw it reboot successfully, lol.[img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v337/Igorod/troopdod.jpg[/img]
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So when are you moving to The South?So what I did was redneck virus removal.
Apache
Where do you put the Bayonet?
Chesty Puller (upon seeing a flamethrower for the first time)
I am all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Lets start with typewriters.
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Its coming from the system restore folder. If you temporarily turn that off to clear out the restore points, the reg key should be gone for good.
My wife just gave me the news that she wants to switch from a desktop (one of my old monster towers) to a laptop (another of mine, in this case a spare laptop that I replaced 6 months ago) so I guess I have a job to do this weekend.Oh if a man tried to take his time on Earth and prove before he died what one man's life could be worth, well I wonder what would happen to this world ? - Harry ChapinComment
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I had a virus and had to wipe the harddrive. IT SUCKEDComment
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