Bradcore Posted July 9, 2007 Share Posted July 9, 2007 Man, I just got done dealing with a pain in the ass virus. Something called NewMediaCodecInstaller.exe. Thank goodness I downloaded Safari a few weeks ago. Not wanting to wait until I got to work, I had to get online and find out how to get rid of the thing, but the clever program locked me out of Firefox and wouldn't let me change from their page in IE. Fortuneately, it didn't do anything to Safari. Unfortunately, in getting everything fixed, I ended up losing all of my bookmarks and extentions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Passion Posted July 9, 2007 Share Posted July 9, 2007 Yeah, I had a friend that had the Zlob virus. I had to help him get rid of it, such a bitch. Had to do a bunch of registry editing and such to totally eliminate it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bradcore Posted July 9, 2007 Author Share Posted July 9, 2007 Well, the program seemed to want me to "buy" some anti-virus software. Although I'm not 100% sure, as far as I can tell from looking at other message boards, it doesn't seem to have a keystroke logger (not that I entered anything important after I got it), so I should be safe. The little bastard went undetected by Norton and Ad-Aware. Ended up downloading some no-name removers that the virus wasn't protected against. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Passion Posted July 9, 2007 Share Posted July 9, 2007 Yep, same thing happened to him. His homepage and any new tab he opened was some fake anti-virus software. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boog Sciambi Posted July 10, 2007 Share Posted July 10, 2007 get a mac Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonny Ramos Posted July 10, 2007 Share Posted July 10, 2007 get a mac Hahahaha. very clever. u work for apple or something? hehe.. "get a mac".. how original. Edit: If you have a sense of humor, http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=macs_cant Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boog Sciambi Posted July 10, 2007 Share Posted July 10, 2007 hahah athats funny lolol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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