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(Message started by: Ree on Oct 5^th, 2004, 10:26am)

Title: ie.explore.exe virus...
Post by Ree on Oct 5^th, 2004, 10:26am

W32.Galil.C@mm any suggestions...
Ive done most of what the Norton site said to do...
Im getting to the point where Nortons isnt cutting it with me anymore... love to you happy day... ree

Modified to fit inside my screen... hopefully it worked... my computer is screwy today... ree

Title: Re: ie.explore.exe virus...
Post by ExplodingEyeBall on Oct 5^th, 2004, 10:42am

Ree.....

Check this link.

http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.galil.c@mm.html

If you're not a true computer geek, have a geek that you know help you out with this one.

It has removal instructions that include doing some tweaks in the registry. Not a safe place to play if your not very careful.

Let me know if you need more help with this.

Pat

Title: Re: ie.explore.exe virus...
Post by Mark C on Oct 5^th, 2004, 11:44am

.......aka.....w/32 Holar.....look here....http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/w32holari.html for removal instructions. Please back up your registry as instructed before removal. Looks easy enough.

;;D ;;D ;;D

Title: Re: ie.explore.exe virus...
Post by TomM on Oct 5^th, 2004, 11:58am

on 10/05/04 at 10:42:44, ExplodingEyeBall wrote:

Ree.....

If you're not a true computer geek, have a geek that you know help you out with this one.

It has removal instructions that include doing some tweaks in the registry. Not a safe place to play if your not very careful.

Take notice to this. Never mess with the registry unless you have a back up.
TomM

Title: Re: ie.explore.exe virus...
Post by Charlie on Oct 5^th, 2004, 6:11pm

Pay attention Ree:

My geek said that if I went near the registry, he'd beat me up.

Charlie

Title: Re: ie.explore.exe virus...
Post by Ree on Oct 5^th, 2004, 8:59pm

not fun and no help either... did all of that stuff and my warnings are still coming up... dunno what to do now... guess Ill just have to infect the world................... or throw the damn thingy out the window........ thanks anyway... love ree

ps i think everyone payed more attention when i used caps................

Title: Re: ie.explore.exe virus...
Post by Opus on Oct 5^th, 2004, 9:06pm

I can help Ree, but you may need to throw the windows out, not the computer. If you just want to browse the web we can send you something simple to use and for right now, no virus attacks.

Opus/Paul

Title: Re: ie.explore.exe virus...
Post by Sean_C on Oct 5^th, 2004, 9:28pm

Ree, I feel the same way, Norton isn't cuttin the mustard. I had issues recently too and gave my puter to a geek downtown to fix. My puter wouldn't even start Windows, it just froze. $90.00 later and its back 100% ;;D ;;D

Sean.....................

Title: Re: ie.explore.exe virus...
Post by Ree on Oct 6^th, 2004, 7:31am

I agree with you Sean and I keep up my membership every year to Norton... they can't even catch these virus... bummer............love ree

Title: Re: ie.explore.exe virus...
Post by ExplodingEyeBall on Oct 6^th, 2004, 9:00am

If you have a decent internet connection, you should keep your anti-virus software set to do aotumatic live update. This is how I keep my system at home configured. It's never been infected.

If you don't have a good connection speed, you should at least make sure to do an update every couple of days.

You should also keep 'File System Real Time Protection' turned on at all times.

Your anti-virus software is only as good as the last time you updated your virus definition files. If you updated yesterday and someone writes a new virus today, your system is vulnerable to it.

In addition to this, even with anti-virus software, you still need to be careful about where you go, what you click on and what you are doing.

Almost every system I have ever cleaned up for viruses was infected by the user opening an attachment in an email. A lot of these emails were from unkown senders.

Something else: Who uses Outlook Express??? If you use the preview panel in your email, you don't even have to open an attachment to get infected. Scripts can run in the preview panel. Disable it.

Title: Re: ie.explore.exe virus...
Post by Kirk on Oct 6^th, 2004, 11:20am

Maybe you should give this a try. It takes a week or so to get used to, but I think you will be happier for it.

http://knoppix.com

It just seems with all the problems you've had, that it is worth a test drive.

TTFN