Topic: NEED HELP WITH VIRUS

[onslaught]

I just got a virus on my laptop and its not going away easily.
The laptop is using XP sp2 and it has no anti virus whatsoever and now
I'm stuck with a virus. I would just restore my laptop but the whole start menu has gone away.
Does anybody know a quick way that I can get rid of this virus?

[Samker]

Hi Onslaught & Welcome to SCF Portal.

This look very bad. Is there possibility to download these programs?

Please try to download, install, update & run full scan:

- AVG AntiVirus Free Edition: http://scforum.info/index.php/topic,108.0.html

- Spybot S&D: http://scforum.info/index.php/topic,1688.0.html


Regards,

S.

[midias]

If you are a college student most of the time schools offer a free virus protection that can be fairly decent I would check there.  Also I think there is a post in the anti virus section about a free trial of mcafee 8.7.  That may be enough to get you out of a jam.  Finally you may want to consider these programs

http://www.malwarebytes.org/
http://www.superantispyware.com/download.html
http://www.lavasoft.com/single/trialpay.php

[georgecloner]

If I'm not mistaken you're system is infected with the "MicroAntivirus" (it's a rogue virus).

To remove and learn more about:

http://www.xp-vista.com/spyware-removal/microantivirus-micro-antivirus-2009-removal-instructions

Hope this helps.