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I scanned (and scanned, and scanned again) and finally got my computer working after getting infected with a virus that wanted me to immediately register for Vista Security 2012. I knew that was a scam, but it had me locked out from doing anything else. Finally I got onto another computer, downloaded Rkill and a new version of Malwarebytes, and copied them onto my main computer while in safe mode. I got the computer to work.
But now in the scan results, it's showing some of the files as "allowed" and I can't remove them. Does anyone know why and what this means? The scan says I am ok, but then shows bad files "allowed."
from a clean machine. It makes a bootable CD. Start the infected computer from that CD and let it scan. Some times the only way to get rid of something is to remove it while Windows isn't running.
Dealing with this virus on my wife's laptop, and it's a huge PITA. Got the virus itself removed, but it somehow blocked the security center service from working at all. Spent 3 hours last night working on it, and will probably go another 3 tonight to get it sorted.
Btw, MSE and Malwarebytes were both running when the laptop got infected, with the latest updates on both, so those of you that haven't gotten it, watch yourselves. Not sure if it's a new version or what, but it stealthed it's way in and royally screwed up the registry.
Dealing with this virus on my wife's laptop, and it's a huge PITA. Got the virus itself removed, but it somehow blocked the security center service from working at all. Spent 3 hours last night working on it, and will probably go another 3 tonight to get it sorted.
Btw, MSE and Malwarebytes were both running when the laptop got infected, with the latest updates on both, so those of you that haven't gotten it, watch yourselves. Not sure if it's a new version or what, but it stealthed it's way in and royally screwed up the registry.
That's not at all out of the ordinary, almost all the infected PC's I get in my shop are running current AV apps when the infection occurs. Today's antivirus is mediocre at best.
A couple articles that explain why, the articles are about 2 years apart, but the problem is the same, which shows that no progress has been made in 2 years as far as detection.
As far as the security center issue, it looks like you're using Windows 7 which doesn't have security center (it has the Action Center, is that what you meant?), what exactly isn't working? Also check that Windows update hasn't been disabled as well.
That's not at all out of the ordinary, almost all the infected PC's I get in my shop are running current AV apps when the infection occurs. Today's antivirus is mediocre at best.
A couple articles that explain why, the articles are about 2 years apart, but the problem is the same, which shows that no progress has been made in 2 years as far as detection.
As far as the security center issue, it looks like you're using Windows 7 which doesn't have security center (it has the Action Center, is that what you meant?), what exactly isn't working? Also check that Windows update hasn't been disabled as well.
Actually, running Vista on the laptop. I've got the security center back, but still tracking down an issue that keeps me from turning on networking. When I try to turn network discovery on, I get the "service is not an installed service" message (not the exact wording, but I figured you'd know what I mean). I'll beat it eventually, just got to dig through the registry and find the bad keys.
Already did a scan of the repository, no issues found.
Tried the MS Fixit programs, no help.
Tried Oldtimer's OLS, helped a bit, but still some issues.
If it were my desktop, I'd have already done a format and reinstall, but I'm a lot more diligent about backing up than the wife is, and she's got around 7 gig of data (music, pictures, and video) on a laptop that has a burnt-out dvd-writer. Without the ability to network, I'm kind of stuck with getting it back in working order - at least long enough to transfer files to my desktop so I can wipe and redo her lappie.
Do you have an actual Vista DVD? If so stick in in, run command promt as administrator, and type
sfc /scannow
This will scan for and replace missing/corrupt system files, I've found it usually takes care of the networking issue after cleaning this type of infection.
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