HELP!!!!!

[Greg]

I turned on my computer the other day and norton anti-virus didn't start and
I thought it was nothing and didn't worry and then the next time I turn the
computer on, norton and my firewall didn't start and when I tried to start
them they started for about 2 seconds and then exit and I also found some
other thing alt+ctrl+del does nothing can install any new anti-virus or
firewalls can't run regedit or msconfig or any anyspyware program and some
games.

What can I do I thought about reformating my hard drive and I am going to
but then how can I stop it happing again because I had up to date anti-virus
and firewall and did regular spyware scans.

 

[David H. Lipman]

From: "Greg" <NULL>

| I turned on my computer the other day and norton anti-virus didn't start and
| I thought it was nothing and didn't worry and then the next time I turn the
| computer on, norton and my firewall didn't start and when I tried to start
| them they started for about 2 seconds and then exit and I also found some
| other thing alt+ctrl+del does nothing can install any new anti-virus or
| firewalls can't run regedit or msconfig or any anyspyware program and some
| games.
|
| What can I do I thought about reformating my hard drive and I am going to
| but then how can I stop it happing again because I had up to date anti-virus
| and firewall and did regular spyware scans.
|


Download MULTI_AV.EXE from the URL --
http://www.ik-cs.com/programs/virtools/Multi_AV.exe

It is a self-extracting ZIP file that contains the Kixtart Script Interpreter {
http://kixtart.org Kixtart is CareWare } 4 batch files, 6 Kixtart scripts, one Link
(.LNK) file, a PDF instruction file and two utilities; UNZIP.EXE and WGET.EXE. It will
simplify the process of using; Sophos, Trend, Kaspersky and McAfee Anti Virus Command
Line Scanners to remove viruses, Trojans and various other malware.

C:\AV-CLS\StartMenu.BAT -- { or Double-click on 'Start Menu' in C:\AV-CLS}
This will bring up the initial menu of choices and should be executed in Normal Mode.
This way all the components can be downloaded from each AV vendor's web site.
The choices are; Sophos, Trend, McAfee, Kaspersky, Exit this menu and Reboot the PC.

You can choose to go to each menu item and just download the needed files or you can
download the files and perform a scan in Normal Mode. Once you have downloaded the files
needed for each scanner you want to use, you should reboot the PC into Safe Mode [F8 key
during boot] and re-run the menu again and choose which scanner you want to run in Safe
Mode. It is suggested to run the scanners in both Safe Mode and Normal Mode.

When the menu is displayed hitting 'H' or 'h' will bring up a more comprehensive PDF help
file.

To use this utility, perform the following...
Execute; Multi_AV.exe { Note: You must use the default folder C:\AV-CLS }
Choose; Unzip
Choose; Close

Execute; C:\AV-CLS\StartMenu.BAT
{ or Double-click on 'Start Menu' in C:\AV-CLS }

NOTE: You may have to disable your software FireWall or allow WGET.EXE to go through your
FireWall to allow it to download the needed AV vendor related files.

* * * Please report back your results * * *

 

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how can I stop it happing again because I had up to
date anti-virus and firewall and did regular spyware scans.

The only thing you didn't mention is safe-hex.
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