Is it me?

Supercow · 22 Oct 2006 at 19:53

I'm on a laptop, that has been very dodgey, since a previous house "guest" used it to surf ridicilously blatant porn sites and infested it with spyware etc.
Took me 6 different scans with different apps to get rid of all the rubbish. It used to redirect any link (through a google search etc) to some advertising directory.

Now I get this

when i try to get in the MM.
Is it my laptop, or hasn't Orifice paid his bills?

*edit* Ok rephrase: was* it my laptop ... seems fine now.

Reppyboyo · 22 Oct 2006 at 19:56

Its you, seems to be normal my end.

Kell_ee001 · 22 Oct 2006 at 19:57

Reppyboyo said:
Its you, seems to be normal my end.

Biohazard · 22 Oct 2006 at 19:58

Wierdo

Moredhel · 22 Oct 2006 at 19:59

Looks like you've not got rid of all that spyware yet...

Supercow · 22 Oct 2006 at 19:59

Gah, seems I need to reeinstall the OS, I can't get rid of all the rubbish

wannabedamned · 22 Oct 2006 at 20:03

sup3rc0w said:
Gah, seems I need to reeinstall the OS, I can't get rid of all the rubbish

What are you using?

Ad-aware, Spybot & Spyware blaster should get rid of pretty much everything. Update them, and run some sweeps.

spotted the edit

Supercow · 22 Oct 2006 at 20:09

wannabedamned said:
What are you using?

Ad-aware, Spybot & Spyware blaster should get rid of pretty much everything. Update them, and run some sweeps.

spotted the edit

All of the above was used, aswell as that new windows defender. Weird random things still happen, including MSN crashing randomly and Shockwave Firefox errors.. the works

Never ever again will I let anyone touch my stuff!

M0T · 22 Oct 2006 at 20:11

Use Hijack this and disable everything.

Seems to fix everything.

Trigger · 22 Oct 2006 at 20:16

Have a look in your HOSTS file at C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc. Open it in notepad- the only thing in it should be some comments from Microsoft and the line '127.0.0.1 localhost'

Nazbit · 22 Oct 2006 at 20:19

Looks like your mate has messed you up, clean your pc up and then have him delt with.

(I've got my keyboard if you need help)

GoldenGlory · 22 Oct 2006 at 20:19

Buy a Mac?

Supercow · 22 Oct 2006 at 20:20

Trigger said:
Have a look in your HOSTS file at C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc. Open it in notepad- the only thing in it should be some comments from Microsoft and the line '127.0.0.1 localhost'

A few things in there including 6 different "notepad docs" and in them, all sorts of servers ip's n stuff :confused:

# 102.54.94.97 rhino.acme.com # source server
# 38.25.63.10 x.acme.com # x client host

Pho · 22 Oct 2006 at 20:31

Restart windows in safemode with networking and try scanning again

Trigger · 22 Oct 2006 at 20:33

Yeah, anything with the # symbol before it is a comment and not active. Definatley no other entries except 127.0.0.1?

Supercow · 22 Oct 2006 at 20:41

Nazbit said:
Looks like your mate has messed you up, clean your pc up and then have him delt with.

(I've got my keyboard if you need help)

lol... worse thing is ... not even a mate, friend of a friend, I'll have your Keyboard over his head without any guilt.

Trigger said:
snip

yea i dont see anything else, maybe im just daft.
Think I'm finally gonna give the new vista release candidate a go

Fantom · 22 Oct 2006 at 20:46

try going into safe mode and running some scans to make sure their exes arent running