[Roadsters] OT Re: SPAM on roadster list

[ljordan704 at netscape.net]

 Excellent. I feel safer now, even though I have a Mac.
Thanks,
Linda


 


 

-----Original Message-----
From: Mitchell Planck <mitch at brooks-planck.org>
To: Pamela <ntrlclr at earthlink.net>
Cc: tom at datsun2000.com; ljordan704 at netscape.net; datsun-roadsters at autox.team.net
Sent: Fri, 6 Mar 2009 1:28 pm
Subject: Re: [Roadsters] OT Re: SPAM on roadster list









I just cleaned a computer infected by an e-card earlier this week. Start with Avast, free edition, and download their program update for that. Install Avast, schedule a boot time scan but don't reboot. Install the program update then reboot and let it scan. You can register this later if you want to keep it.


After that get cwshredder.exe from TrendMicro, smitfraudfix.exe, & Malware-Bytes AntiMalware. (Find these with google)

Reboot into safe mode with networking (reboot and hit F8 until the screen pops allowing you to pick this). Run cwshredder, smitfraudfix (select clean), then antimalware (let it update from the Internet).


This combination can clean out most anything. You can also use superantispyware.exe to further scan.

Check c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts - this file can be read by notepad and should have only one line that doesn't start with a # sign. It should be 127.0.0.1? localhost. If there is anything else delete it. This won't hurt anything.


Try going to http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com in Internet Explorer and installing the latest updates and patches. If the site won't come up (I've had this happen) it can be caused by a virus. You can also download and run Windows Defender from Microsoft.


More dangerous (for your computer):

Go into c:\windows\system32, sort by date so most recent is on top. 
You will also need to go to the Tools->Folder Options->View and select Show hidden & system files, and uncheck hide extensions & hide protected operating system files

This will show new files in this directory. Many bad programs will hide here with random filenames that end in .exe or .dll but if you delete or rename the wrong file you can make your computer completely broken so you have to reinstall windows. BE VERY AWARE OF WHAT YOU DO! These are usually cleaned out by the other programs so this is a last resort.



Good luck,
Mitch Planck
'69 1600
'70 1600