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US Airways virus infected email
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US Airways virus infected email
Sunday, September 7, 2008 at 3:55 am
Posted by Dickyboy
(2 messages posted)
Hi,
A friend borrowed my pc a few days ago to check emails and opened an email which
purported to be from US airways. Immediately AVG flagged up the threat, but too late
as from then on my system was awash with Trojans with names such as Dropper.BravixA
and Agent.AADP.
I used AVG in safe mode to scan and clean the system, which it appears to have done
succesfully, however now when I boot up whether in normal or safe mode I just get
a blank screen instead of my desktop. I can open task manager but that's all I can
do.
I'm assuming that if I can do a system restore that predates the infection whatever
has been corrupted may be reinstated, but I don't know if I can run a system restore
from task manager.
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re: US Airways virus infected email
Sunday, September 7, 2008 at 4:44 am
Posted by Steve B
(1600 messages posted)
I can see why your friend uses other people's computers to check his e-mails. :)
On Sunday, September 7, 2008 at 3:55 am, Dickyboy wrote:
>Hi,
>
>A friend borrowed my pc a few days ago to check emails and opened an email which
>purported to be from US airways. Immediately AVG flagged up the threat, but too
late
>as from then on my system was awash with Trojans with names such as Dropper.BravixA
>and Agent.AADP.
>I used AVG in safe mode to scan and clean the system, which it appears to have done
>succesfully, however now when I boot up whether in normal or safe mode I just get
>a blank screen instead of my desktop. I can open task manager but that's all I can
>do.
>I'm assuming that if I can do a system restore that predates the infection whatever
>has been corrupted may be reinstated, but I don't know if I can run a system restore
>from task manager.
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re: US Airways virus infected email
Sunday, September 7, 2008 at 10:11 am
Posted by Steve
(19681 messages posted)
You might try from the Safemode. Keep in mind though that the System Restore folder
itself may be infected. Much of the Malware these days will try to make System Restore
not work.
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re: US Airways virus infected email
Sunday, September 7, 2008 at 1:16 pm
Posted by Rich Kurtz
(11778 messages posted)
Follow directions at any of the following sites. The folks there are dedicated to
malware removal and will be able to help you determine if your system is infected
and if so how to clean it up. They require that you register but they are all free.
Also be patient as they are usually very busy:
GeeksToGo
WhattheTech
Spyware Beware
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re: US Airways virus infected email
Sunday, September 7, 2008 at 1:37 pm
Posted by Dan Sarandrea, MCSE
(6749 messages posted)
Stop running your computer with a Computer Administrator account!
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re: US Airways virus infected email
Sunday, September 7, 2008 at 2:09 pm
Posted by Steve
(19681 messages posted)
I make My friends use my Beater linux PC to get email.
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