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Hello! This all started a couple weeks ago - started getting a little icon
(an exclamation point) with a little box that would come up saying I had a
bunch of spyware....click this baloon - which took me to a download for some
anti-spyware that I'd never heard of. I did system scan w/ norton - found the
trojan.zlob. The little pop up balloon did not stop, so I looked up
trojan.zlob on the internet and ended up downloading and running Spyhunter
2.8 (Enigma Software Group) which seemed to solve the problem - but was
probably a big mistake. About a week later, I started having severe problems
with lack of space on the c drive - and another pop up balloon started coming
up and I thought it was part of this virus or something and ignored it for a
couple days. After driving me crazy long enough, I checked and sure enough I
had 0% left on my c drive. I went through a lot of crap just to defrag
(downloaded Ace Utilities, ERUNT, NTREGOPT, Registry Compactor). Through
another thread, I discovered that "J2SE Runtime Environment 5.0 Update 3" was
probably causing some of my problems and I removed it. In the past couple
days I have downloaded and ran in safe mode and normal mode the following:
McAfee Stinger, Trend Sysclean, Ad-Ware SE, Ccleaner, Spybot, Spyblaster,
Counterspy. Many found zlob and two of them pegged Spyhunter as having the
zlob in its backup - but how do I know it's all gone? I've followed all the
directions on the majorgeeks website "malware removal guide" but am a
computer idiot so I have not contacted them. I've also deleted all my IE
Temporary Files, cookies, history, form data, and passwords. I've also done
the disk cleanup and defrag a few times and have now been using the ccleaner
quite often. My concern is 1) Is it gone? 2) Did the virus have something to
do with me not having any room left on my c drive? and 3) I'm only back up to
a whole whopping 17% on the c drive and have nothing left to remove,
uninstall, delete - what else can I do?
Thanks so much for any help!
(an exclamation point) with a little box that would come up saying I had a
bunch of spyware....click this baloon - which took me to a download for some
anti-spyware that I'd never heard of. I did system scan w/ norton - found the
trojan.zlob. The little pop up balloon did not stop, so I looked up
trojan.zlob on the internet and ended up downloading and running Spyhunter
2.8 (Enigma Software Group) which seemed to solve the problem - but was
probably a big mistake. About a week later, I started having severe problems
with lack of space on the c drive - and another pop up balloon started coming
up and I thought it was part of this virus or something and ignored it for a
couple days. After driving me crazy long enough, I checked and sure enough I
had 0% left on my c drive. I went through a lot of crap just to defrag
(downloaded Ace Utilities, ERUNT, NTREGOPT, Registry Compactor). Through
another thread, I discovered that "J2SE Runtime Environment 5.0 Update 3" was
probably causing some of my problems and I removed it. In the past couple
days I have downloaded and ran in safe mode and normal mode the following:
McAfee Stinger, Trend Sysclean, Ad-Ware SE, Ccleaner, Spybot, Spyblaster,
Counterspy. Many found zlob and two of them pegged Spyhunter as having the
zlob in its backup - but how do I know it's all gone? I've followed all the
directions on the majorgeeks website "malware removal guide" but am a
computer idiot so I have not contacted them. I've also deleted all my IE
Temporary Files, cookies, history, form data, and passwords. I've also done
the disk cleanup and defrag a few times and have now been using the ccleaner
quite often. My concern is 1) Is it gone? 2) Did the virus have something to
do with me not having any room left on my c drive? and 3) I'm only back up to
a whole whopping 17% on the c drive and have nothing left to remove,
uninstall, delete - what else can I do?
Thanks so much for any help!