casey Posted December 14, 2009 Share Posted December 14, 2009 I've got a virus on my work computer. I was on Ikea's Web site and it just flashed and now there's a black box in the center of the screen that says YOUR COMPUTER IS INFECTED...DO NOT USE UNTIL ALL SPYWARE HAS BEEN REMOVED. First, does this seem familiar to anyone? I'm sure I need to be more specific, but that's pretty much all that the message says. We have an IT dept. in my company but I don't want to go through them because I don't want them to look into my internet activity at work. Can anyone offer any help, please, please? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hickey Posted December 14, 2009 Share Posted December 14, 2009 Download the freeware called Malware Bytes. Run it. Delete what it picks up. You should be all set. I don't know if that's really your A/V software telling you somethings wrong or that spyware that makes you think something's wrong. Either way, Malware Bytes will lick it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hickey Posted December 14, 2009 Share Posted December 14, 2009 Ooops. Links are good: http://www.malwarebytes.org/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest kissthesharks Posted December 14, 2009 Share Posted December 14, 2009 Hit the side of it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hickey Posted December 14, 2009 Share Posted December 14, 2009 Hit the side of it. This works too. So does yelling at it really loudly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest kissthesharks Posted December 14, 2009 Share Posted December 14, 2009 Hit the side of it. This works too. So does yelling at it really loudly. Pick up the mouse and yell VIRUS OFF into it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kirbypuckett Posted December 14, 2009 Share Posted December 14, 2009 Ooops. Links are good:http://www.malwarebytes.org/ Do this. Are you able to install software on your PC? If not, there's a portable version that you can run that doesn't install: http://4compi.blogspot.com/2008/12/portable-malwarebytes-anti-malware-131.html If it doesn't work let us know. Are you using IE? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rtw88 Posted December 14, 2009 Share Posted December 14, 2009 I haven't seen anything like that, but I would add that you should install Microsoft Security Essentials. It's worked great for me so far. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest eriathomas Posted December 15, 2009 Share Posted December 15, 2009 Run a spyware removal first, as it may just be a spyware pop-up and not a realy virus. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kgry Posted December 15, 2009 Share Posted December 15, 2009 I've seen it before. Mallwarebytes will remove it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
casey Posted December 15, 2009 Author Share Posted December 15, 2009 Thanks doodz. I can install software if I remove it immediately. The head of the IT dept. is the owner/President's son so I have to be super covert about anything having to do with the computers. I'll try the malwarebytes and let you guys know what happens. Thanks again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
casey Posted December 15, 2009 Author Share Posted December 15, 2009 Thanks doodz. I can install software if I remove it immediately. The head of the IT dept. is the owner/President's son so I have to be super covert about anything having to do with the computers. I'll try the malwarebytes and let you guys know what happens. Thanks again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
casey Posted December 15, 2009 Author Share Posted December 15, 2009 Neither the regular or portable are working. the rgular site brings up a "site not found" and the portable brings up a blog that takes me to a download page that says "request download ticket" and when I try to click that it doesn't do anything. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rtw88 Posted December 15, 2009 Share Posted December 15, 2009 Get the portable version on your home computer and put it on a jump drive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhulud Posted December 15, 2009 Share Posted December 15, 2009 Hey Casey...is it this lovely message on your screen? I got this right after going to and clicking on the VC board Saturday night. I couldn't get rid of it on my system. Pretty much fucked. Had to take it to a PC Professor place. Here's hoping it's fixable... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kirbypuckett Posted December 15, 2009 Share Posted December 15, 2009 Thanks doodz. I can install software if I remove it immediately. The head of the IT dept. is the owner/President's son so I have to be super covert about anything having to do with the computers. I'll try the malwarebytes and let you guys know what happens. Thanks again. If the IT guy is worth anything, he already knows what you're doing, haha. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
casey Posted December 15, 2009 Author Share Posted December 15, 2009 Hey Casey...is it this lovely message on your screen? I got this right after going to and clicking on the VC board Saturday night. I couldn't get rid of it on my system. Pretty much fucked. Had to take it to a PC Professor place. Here's hoping it's fixable... That's exactly the message I've got. Did you do a malware scan like mentioned above. I have one running on the machine right now. How much did the place charge you to fix it and how long did it take? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhulud Posted December 15, 2009 Share Posted December 15, 2009 I ran malware and also virus scan and spyware. Picked up a few "infections", cleared them... but then when I re-booted, it went back to this. And it kept kicking up the "Internet Security 2010" message nonsense. The place I took it to...well, my brother took it yesterday...charges $145. They usually take about a week or so if it's fixable. But with the holidays and all that, they set the expectation that maybe for next week. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
casey Posted December 15, 2009 Author Share Posted December 15, 2009 I ran malware and also virus scan and spyware. Picked up a few "infections", cleared them... but then when I re-booted, it went back to this. And it kept kicking up the "Internet Security 2010" message nonsense.The place I took it to...well, my brother took it yesterday...charges $145. They usually take about a week or so if it's fixable. But with the holidays and all that, they set the expectation that maybe for next week. Shit man, I just checked the machine and it's clean. All it took was the malwarebytes program. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kirbypuckett Posted December 15, 2009 Share Posted December 15, 2009 Yikes Juan! I could have helped, ask me / VC before you take your PC anywhere! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thousandjulys Posted December 15, 2009 Share Posted December 15, 2009 I ran malware and also virus scan and spyware. Picked up a few "infections", cleared them... but then when I re-booted, it went back to this. And it kept kicking up the "Internet Security 2010" message nonsense.The place I took it to...well, my brother took it yesterday...charges $145. They usually take about a week or so if it's fixable. But with the holidays and all that, they set the expectation that maybe for next week. Shit man, I just checked the machine and it's clean. All it took was the malwarebytes program. we use malwarebytes @ work. as long as it's up to date it usually works like a champ. there is also something called Computer Repair Utility Kit v2 that works very well too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhulud Posted December 18, 2009 Share Posted December 18, 2009 Now that I have my PC back...yeah...I didn't see your post Scott, thanks for the offer and hopefully will not have to take you up on it, know what I mean?...but, what is a solid security/anti-virus/anti-spyware/anti-everything that I can get? Free or otherwise. I am not taking another chance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kirbypuckett Posted December 18, 2009 Share Posted December 18, 2009 Now that I have my PC back...yeah...I didn't see your post Scott, thanks for the offer and hopefully will not have to take you up on it, know what I mean?...but, what is a solid security/anti-virus/anti-spyware/anti-everything that I can get? Free or otherwise.I am not taking another chance. Microsoft's new free one. http://www.microsoft.com/Security_Essentials/ It's free and it does the trick quite well from what I've heard. I've been suggesting it to a lot of people with no complaints. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rtw88 Posted December 18, 2009 Share Posted December 18, 2009 Yeah, MSE has been great so far. It's been working really well and doesn't hog resources too much. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest eriathomas Posted December 18, 2009 Share Posted December 18, 2009 I love MSE. I switched from AVG9 to it, since AVG became a huge resource hog, and MSE barely takes up any. I only run MSE, and Spybot, though I never actually run Spybot I have it just in case. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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