Eiade Posted October 7, 2004 Author Share Posted October 7, 2004 Yes. My virus program has identified a virus that has infected two or three files in WINDOWS/system32 folder, which, as we all know, does not allow the user to alter any files whatsoever. Therefore the virus program can't quarantine or block or clean these files. One of the infected files is actually svchost!! Does anyone know a way to clean these protected files? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
postaldudeleo Posted October 8, 2004 Share Posted October 8, 2004 Ok heres how to fix it and any other things that vulk up computers. I have a kick ass program called pestpatrol corparate edition (i loaded this from my dad's work) Anyhow, its a very nice anti virus program that destroys addware and decimates viruses. You can buy a home edition with 1 year updates for about 50 bucks if i remember. I had 7 trojans that where doing the same thing on my comp and so i just turned it up and scanned my poo. it found no less then 7. It said that it can fix it and gave me the stats and whatever a whole 3 pages about each and who the hell made it, what it does, wher eits gotten from ect. the i clicky remove and bingo. Never seen those viruses agian. This should help you. Deleting this crap manually is too much work. Or then agian you can click your windows folder and just clcik enter anyway when it says you cannot enter or edit the contents. Find the name of the virus. Post it here and ill just find the manual remove instructions from the pestpatrol database and post em. Or save some time and futile energy (these instructions are pretty long and getting all those registry numbers is a good weeks worth of work in finding them) so you can just order the program. Belive me this is one 50 bucks you are going to cherish for a while as pestpatrol has best customer support database that is updtated every day and this puts a stop to any mothervulker who makes these annoying viruses and adware poo that you have to trudge through every minute while your on google and ect. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peregrine Posted October 8, 2004 Share Posted October 8, 2004 Yes. My virus program has identified a virus that has infected two or three files in WINDOWS/system32 folder, which, as we all know, does not allow the user to alter any files whatsoever. Therefore the virus program can't quarantine or block or clean these files. One of the infected files is actually svchost!! Does anyone know a way to clean these protected files? Reformat windows partition, reinstall windows. Get used to doing this every few months. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eiade Posted October 8, 2004 Author Share Posted October 8, 2004 But I don't really want to lose all of my files. Am I supposed to burn all my stuff to disk? That's a lot of disks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peregrine Posted October 8, 2004 Share Posted October 8, 2004 And now another person sees the benefits of having an entire drive partition with nothing but windows on it... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
postaldudeleo Posted October 8, 2004 Share Posted October 8, 2004 just get pestpatrol and you lose nothing, zero, zip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eiade Posted October 8, 2004 Author Share Posted October 8, 2004 So this pestpatrol, unlike other virus programs, can clean infected system files? Can it be downloaded or does it have to be bought? If I can download it, please provide a link. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
postaldudeleo Posted October 8, 2004 Share Posted October 8, 2004 You can download it i think but that only finds and tells you about your pests. To clean them you would need to pay just 40 bucks for the new home version. You can download it for free at warez sites but i would then plan to buy it sometime because it is really better to support pestpatrol because they honesly provide better service then all the other poo out there. Right now, click the download link (http://www.pestpatrol.com/Products/PestPatrolHE/Single_User_Evaluation.asp) for the scanner and if it detects your stuff then buy it. I dont knwo if there is any diferance from the cleaning capabilities between the corparate and the home adware version but if the home version detects it then itll clean it with no loss. I had 7 trojans in my windows32 and it fixed that so it should work for you too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nzdbox Posted October 9, 2004 Share Posted October 9, 2004 there is a simple answer to your question.follow what peregrine said. reformat your HD.if you have many files that you dont want to lose, theres a very simple solution. take it to a friend's house, plug it in, back up all the files that you wanna keep on his HD (make sure his HD is clean for obvious reasons), format, reinstall windows, and then put all the files backed in. easy as hell, 2 hour process at max (i did it for a friend of mine, it was some 20 gbs of space, while the files transferred we just watched a movie)you dont have a friend with a computer (or his HD isnt big enough)?then sadly all you can do is copy your files to a CD. or lose it.formatting periodically will help. big time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eiade Posted October 10, 2004 Author Share Posted October 10, 2004 Yes I have a friend with a good computer. Sounds good. Thanks guys! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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