Hi,
I always had Norton. But then I noticed that it sucks And since I have avast (2 days^^) my system works better.
But! I tried to use the Boot-Scan. Everything worked, but then it found a virus. There are then several things which I could do by pressing a number on my keyboard, but my keyboard is not in use o_O I can’t use it in boot-scan!
Please help, what to do, because I’ve got a virus in my RAM^^
Sorry for Doublepost, but I need help as fast as hell^^
This damn virus slows down my system too much omg! I’ve got an AMD x2 4200+, 1024 MB DDR2 RAM and a GeForce 7900GT, but UT2004 doesn’t work, like Oblivion, Spellforce2, and all the other games I have
I could be wrong, but I think in order to enable the USB Keyboard you would have to be using a PS/2 Keyboard (ie a keyboard with a cable) since the USB Keyboard would not yet have the BIOS support needed to make the change.
So, if you’ve connected a PS/2 Keyboard you could just keep it simple and do the boot scan with that, then change back to USB when its done.
If you want to enable the USB Keyboard there are general instructions here
I already tried it with PS2, but it didn’t work… Or has the Keyboard be put in when I start the PC? Because I put it in when I had to choose an option^^
It is a common malware trick to place files in the system folders. There is no rush to delete anything from the chest, they can’t do any harm there.
Anything that you send to the chest you should leave there for a week or two. If after that time you have suffered no adverse effects from moving these to the chest, scan them again (inside the chest) and if they are still detected as viruses, delete them.
Whilst browsing or collecting email, etc. if you get infected then the malware by default inherits the same permissions that you have for your user account. So if the user account has administrator rights, the malware has administrator rights and can reap havoc. With limited rights the malware can’t put files in the system folders, create registry entries, etc. This greatly reduces the potential harm that can be done by an undetected or first day virus, etc.
Check out the link to DropMyRights (in my signature below) - Browsing the Web and Reading E-mail Safely as an Administrator. This obviously applies to those NT based OSes that have administrator settings, winNT, win2k, winXP.
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