Virus attack

[Guest Beasel]

I downloaded an virus, apparently named JS/Phish! Now I am constantly hit

with sites that want to sell me virus software. One frequent pop-up is a

warning that I have "Trojan W32 Looksky" and download this software to fix.

They have taken over my IE home site. and have constant pop-ups. Ran AVG and

it found JS/Phish and healed it, it said, but no change. Ran MS oneCare and

it said that there was no problem after about four hours. Problems seems to

be getting better than yesterday or I am getting faster at deleting the

popups. Running MS2000 and IE 7.0. AVG has kept me viral free for over four

years. At wits end.

--

Old computer guy with new problems!

[Guest Steve Parry [MVP]]

Re: Virus attack

 

In news:390CCEB0-CB57-4050-ADD2-CB67948F7E0A@microsoft.com,

Beasel <Beasel@discussions.microsoft.com> wibbled

> I downloaded an virus, apparently named JS/Phish! Now I am

> constantly hit with sites that want to sell me virus software. One

> frequent pop-up is a warning that I have "Trojan W32 Looksky" and

> download this software to fix. They have taken over my IE home site.

> and have constant pop-ups. Ran AVG and it found JS/Phish and healed

> it, it said, but no change. Ran MS oneCare and it said that there

> was no problem after about four hours. Problems seems to be getting

> better than yesterday or I am getting faster at deleting the popups.

> Running MS2000 and IE 7.0. AVG has kept me viral free for over four

> years. At wits end.

 

Try Stinger

 

http://vil.nai.com/vil/stinger/default.aspx

 

to see if it's in the list of ones it removes

 

 

--

Steve Parry MCP MVP

http://www.gwynfryn.co.uk

[Guest Sid Elbow]

Re: Virus attack

 

Beasel wrote:

> I downloaded an virus, apparently named JS/Phish! Now I am constantly hit

> with sites that want to sell me virus software. One frequent pop-up is a

> warning that I have "Trojan W32 Looksky" and download this software to fix.

> They have taken over my IE home site. and have constant pop-ups. Ran AVG and

> it found JS/Phish and healed it, it said, but no change. Ran MS oneCare and

> it said that there was no problem after about four hours. Problems seems to

> be getting better than yesterday or I am getting faster at deleting the

> popups. Running MS2000 and IE 7.0. AVG has kept me viral free for over four

> years. At wits end.

 

Sounds more like a browser hijack than a virus per se. AVG (and others)

my not help much with that although you could try the "AVG Anti Spyware"

scanner. they have a free one on their website. Other programs such as

"Hijack This" may help.

 

Try a Google search.

[Guest Andrew Morton]

Re: Virus attack

 

Beasel wrote:

> I downloaded an virus, apparently named JS/Phish! Now I am

> constantly hit with sites that want to sell me virus software. One

> frequent pop-up is a warning that I have "Trojan W32 Looksky" and

> download this software to fix. They have taken over my IE home site.

> and have constant pop-ups.

 

Sounds like you want to install and run "Spybot Search & Destroy".

 

Andrew