Ive learnt my lesson

[chriscool9]

Ok guys, i was on a WAREZ site (yes ive learnt my lesson from the stupid websites) and within a half a second of the site loading i get the little window that you get when you select to download something, ie if you want to 'Save to Disk' or 'Open With'. Then about half a second later i see a message bottom right that tells me a virus has tried to get into my laptop (ive seen it before so it didint bother me)   but then Avast! goes mad and starts telling me what to do with it, it recomends that i move it to chest, which i do. So i instantly press the button on my laptop to disable the wireless card. Problem over? I hope so but i have a couple of questions.
The virus name was Win32: Dialer-521 [Trj], so i googled it and i went on a forum and it said that someone had caught it but Avast! didint pick it up, so this has got me worried. Ill do a scan, but what if it doesnt pick it up
Also im running on wireless, so even if i am infected will it even have any effect?
Thanks in advance


Chris

[unlovedwarrior]

use ewido spybot adaware windows defender

its a dailer spybot should get it

nice to see you here chris

unlovedwarrior

[chriscool9]

nice to see you here chris

Hehehe thanks.
I tried Edwido a while back and i had to uninstall it becuase it kept making false reports on things on my laptop. Anyway i went onto Avast! and selected 'Scheduale Boot Time Scan' so it told me to restart laptop where it did a scan. Everything came up clean, but one thing worried me. It said access to one file was denied. Here is the log below:

10/19/2006 18:39
Scan of all local drives
File C:\hiberfil.sys Error 0xC0000022 {Access Denied}

Number of searched folders: 6234
Number of tested files: 89998
Number of infected files: 0

So she says theres no viruses but like i said earlier i found a post on a forum that he did ahve the virus but no scanners piked it up
Thanks for help Unloved


Chris

[unlovedwarrior]

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=hiberfil.sys&btnG=Google+Search


LOOK AROUND HERE


did you try the other programs


aslo try stinger from the FAQ spyware/virus sticky

[Raptor]

Are you an Internet Explorer user?

 

[chriscool9]

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=hiberfil.sys&btnG=Google+Search


LOOK AROUND HERE


did you try the other programs


aslo try stinger from the FAQ spyware/virus sticky

Brillient thanks matey!!!
Also Raptor no i use Firefox, find it alot more user friendly, attractive and faster.


Chris

[patio]

I have no problems with Ewido...i don't use the live scanning process as well.

patio.  8-)

[chriscool9]

Well it was ok, untill that really irritating alarm started sounding alerting me that firefox was chockablock full of spyware. It then tried to tell me that numerous other programs where full of it, so i jsut uninstalled it.
Anyway Unlovedwarrior ive decided that its best off not deleating the hiberfil.sys seing as its used for hibernation and my laptop has a dodgey power connection which can often result in it going into hibernation. Thanks so much for the info anyway.
Also should i still be worried that the virus still might be active within my laptop eventhough it wasnt picked up, bearing in mind that there was another user that has it but Avast! didint pick it up.
Thanks again

Chris

[unlovedwarrior]

did you try stinger

[chriscool9]

Its scanning now...
Although when i looked at the List Viruses it didint ahve the one im worried about. Still no harm in running it. Ill edit this psot with the results once i get them.
Thanks


Chris

[unlovedwarrior]

u dled the new one right

[chriscool9]

The new one Stinger v2.6.0??


Chris

[unlovedwarrior]

k what about spybot??

[chriscool9]

Nothing with that.... So far so good!!!!
Btw thanks for all this!


Chris

[unlovedwarrior]

no problem this section is where i belong and enjoy being here.  try avg free, uninstall avast and install avg free patio just posted the newest one in this forum


and if your real freaked out about you can back up any important files and reformat thatll it rid of the buggger