Re: Virus blocking windows update??

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Hi,

I am one of those users who had a momentary lapse of brainpower. I opened
an ecard greeting and ended up with a virus. (My friend does actually send
these now and then!) Anyway, I think it's might be the same one Cyril has.
I also cannot get to any security/anti-virus websites. I would like to try
your suggestion regarding the 'security mode with network', however I don't
know what this is, nor how to do it. I will say I have since learned more
about computers than I thought I'd ever need!

Looking forward to your help, Marcus, Kelly

"Marcus Guerra" wrote:

Hi guys,

I had the same problem, and solved.

My advice to you is:

- Restart your computer in the security mode with network;
- and than download the anti-virus that you want. In my case, I used the
avast anti-virus, and it solved the problem without dificulties.


"Torgeir Bakken (MVP)" wrote:

Cyril wrote:

Hi
Thanks for the advice
I was unable to access your trend micro pages but I ran the online scan
instead: it didn't detect anything. On the other hand stinger detected Qhosts
apd trojan in 2 locations and repaired the infected files. Adaware just
deleted one cookie. AVG7 didn't detect anything too.

Bur it is still not working...
What to do next...?
Hi

For your browsing issues to different web sites:

Your hosts file could be compromised, edit the following
file with Notepad:

Win95/98/ME: %windir%\hosts
Windows NT/2000/XP: %windir%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts

Click Start >> Run >>
Type the follow command in the Open box.
"notepad %windir%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts" (w/o quotes)
Press Ok

If there is anything within the file, remove anything but the line

127.0.0.1 localhost

and the comment lines at the top.

Be sure to go to the end of the file, sometimes the bad
app have added a lot of blank lines before the host entries
added to the file.



--
torgeir, Microsoft MVP Scripting and WMI, Porsgrunn Norway
Administration scripting examples and an ONLINE version of
the 1328 page Scripting Guide:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/default.mspx

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