Check Your Computer for Malware Now

Thanks for sharing,

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Did it last night!

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Mine looks ok - however, should we go one step further for an anti virus?

I don't know exactly what you mean by that but don't follow any instructions to remove the virus if you don't have it. Actually, I don't know how you could have this virus and not know it. Your browsing sessions would be all screwed up. Where you wanted to go and where you would land would be different. If you were to do a Google word search, I think you would get selections that would be different from the ones that you expected. I wouldn't worry too much about it if you got the green background

The only thing you might want to do to be extra cautious is to check with your service provider and ask them whether or not they've rerouted their servers. If your information from your computer was going through an infected server that they rerouted, when they shut down those infected servers on Monday, you won't have any web access. Like I said, though, if you were on one I think you'd have known it.

it's the word 'probably' which intrigued me...

Your clarification is also helpful - no problems like that...

Thanks Sue!

That's just their CYA, I think. You're welcome.

Interesting, Sue. I've gotten the green background. I should be alright.

Surprised you're green, Mark-John. I guessed you'd be the type to hang out in the red light district. :)

Laughs!

It is a bit out of character for me, isn't it? (still smiling) When I said I'd be "alright," I was, of course, using a relative term. :)

Thank you for the help, Sue. I'd been wondering about this. It really wouldn't do to have Bats come flying from my Desktop come Monday morning...

And, funny-enough, we don't have a respectable Red-Light District here or hereabouts. Uh..I mean...none that I've noticed... ;)

I didn't know there was such a thing as a "respectable" red-light district. Maybe you should post about what separates the respectable from unrespectable. We always like to hear from the experts here at Gather. :)

Well, I'm afraid that my "expertise" runs a bit shallow in their World, Doll. But, I suppose I could "wing it." ;)

My energies are more directed at fighting off the wholesome ones. (My Mum always laughs when I talk like this:)

uh... they are now called massage parlors... Warren, OH recently shut them all down...

Uh..we're having a bit of ribbing here, Loqui...if you're feeling a little tight in the knickers, try it, sometime :)

Yeah, that's what they call them, Linda. hahahaha

wonder what the unemployment rate is for the oldest profession?

I don't know, Linda. It's probably pretty low. I was following some jackasses' comments on here and they led me to a post about Twitter. (It was no better than the other comments I followed to the two posts here about Brad Pitts' mother, most of which were about how stupid they thought the story was. But the very same people who thought the story was so stupid were the ones who spent the time making the most comments on both posts.) Anyway, this Twitter story was about these guys who filmed their one-night stands and uploaded the stuff to Twitter. Now they're all aghast about the guys who would do such a thing, but the women have rights. So, sure, it wasn't something the guys should have done, but to see the comments, you'd think the sluts were the BVM. As I see it, they should have gotten paid so that's their biggest loss.

He-he...You two have me coming apart...:)

How do we know this is not a spammers scan?

One of these links within the links I provided will take you directly to the FBI's site. You can check right there, and if you don't trust them, I don't blame you, but there's nothing more I can do about that right now.

The link I provided in the body of the post that takes you to that blog for the checking came from vortex.com, a very reliable site that is probably better than the FBI's site.

Sue,
Anyone who does not have it should download Microsoft's free Malicious Software Removal Tool (mrt.exe) or if you already have it, get the latest updates. Go to your start menu, click Run and in the dialog box type mrt.exe then hit go. MRT will prompt you to get latest updates before running.

If you are not sure whether you already have the software, search mrt.exe

MRT is not a replacement for anti virus software but it is a last line of defence and can be run anytime, even when the computer is started in safe mode, to clean an infected computer. People should learn how to start in safe mode. Usually it goes something like this but specific instructions can be found in Windows help centre on the desktop:

Restart the computer. If you have a multiboot disk when the boot menu appears hit F8. If you are not configured for multiboot, during the startup the screen will go blank with a flashing cursor in the top left hand corner. When that appears hit F8.

From the text menu select Start In Safe Mode.

Once the very limited version of windows desktop appears, open the start menu, select run and proceed as above.

A full MRT scan takes a while but will identify and remove all known malware but I repeat it is NOT a replacement for anti virus. This procedure is for cleaning an infected computer where the malware is blocking normal security software.

I hope nobody needs to make use of this information.

Ian

I was going to ask for your input here. Thanks, Ian.

Thanks a lot.

You're welcome, William.

Thanks for the info.

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