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The Backlash Cometh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-08-10 10:25 PM
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Got rid of the worm, but it left a nasty afertaste. Need help with infected computer.
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I think I fell victim to the win32 worm. It may have been on my computer since Christmas. Something buggy has been going on with my Trend Micro Internet Security since than, and also with and IE update. I don't even know why I updated it, since I never use it, but nothing has been the same since then.

For a while, changing over to Mozilla seemed to work, but slowly that got overtaken. It was a pain trying to go around all the different obstacles, like a mouse that wouldn't double click, and webpages that steadily became less accessible. Finally, I went out and bought the Kaspersky Internet Security 2010. As I tried to install it, An advertisement for Microsoft Internet 2010 tried to take over, warning me that my computer was being attacked by a remote computer. I kept getting pop up windows throughout the installation. The only thing I managed to do was get the Kaspersky to scan my computer, but the disk was a July 2009 disk and considered obsolete. After the scan finalized. I managed to get on the internet to download the current list and when that was done, a pop-up window said I had to reboot the computer.

So, I reboot the computer and everything looked fine. Made it to the log in screen. Typed in my password and it looked like it was going to go through but, I got kicked off by the "administrator." Basically, I can't get back in to scan using the updated Kasperky black list.

Anybody know how I can get around this? It accepts my password, but once in, the "administrator" boots me out.
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