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ABSOLUTELY DESPERATE SPYWARE HELP NEEDED

YaYaYaYa Decent.Registered User regular
edited September 2009 in Social Entropy++
my main computer is infected with an extremely nasty piece of spyware called Total Security 2009

it masquerades as anti-spyware, stops you from opening any .exe's and after 20 hours systematically deletes your harddrive piece by fucking piece

and I have no idea how to stop it

I can't even open task manager to kill the process and buy some time

the computer's off right now and I can disconnect it from the internet if needed

but I need help, and I need it soon

YaYa on

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  • BroloBrolo Broseidon Lord of the BroceanRegistered User regular
    edited September 2009
    dodgy_spyware_ad.jpg

    Brolo on
    Hey Satan!
  • MorivethMoriveth BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWNRegistered User regular
    edited September 2009
    Uh

    Reformat? I dunno

    Moriveth on
  • redheadredhead Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    did you Click Here! to get rid of Spyware!, YaYa

    is that what you did

    redhead on
  • YaYaYaYa Decent. Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    I don't even know what the fuck happened

    I came home and it was on my computer

    the jokes aren't helping, people

    YaYa on
  • MorivethMoriveth BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWNRegistered User regular
    edited September 2009
    The worst virus I had was this weird one that would create copies of whatever EXE I ran and hide them in a system folder of the windows directory

    it would make a new copy every time I ran a program, so eventually I ran out of hard disk space

    Moriveth on
  • IskanderIskander Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    jesus christ how do people ever end up getting these things?

    Iskander on
  • Fort1tudeFort1tude Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    if you paypal me 20 bucks ill help you out but fuck doing this for free

    Fort1tude on
    Steam ID - Fort1tude
  • MorivethMoriveth BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWNRegistered User regular
    edited September 2009
    YaYa wrote: »
    I don't even know what the fuck happened

    I came home and it was on my computer

    the jokes aren't helping, people

    Seriously, I'd probably reformat unless there's something you absolutely have to keep on your hard drive

    nuke it from orbit

    Moriveth on
  • IskanderIskander Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    http://www.google.com/search?q=remove+Total+Security+2009

    Iskander on
  • scrivenerjonesscrivenerjones Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    Iskander wrote: »
    http://www.google.com/search?q=remove+Total+Security+2009

    don't click this link it is a virus!!

    scrivenerjones on
  • YaYaYaYa Decent. Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    Moriveth wrote: »
    YaYa wrote: »
    I don't even know what the fuck happened

    I came home and it was on my computer

    the jokes aren't helping, people

    Seriously, I'd probably reformat unless there's something you absolutely have to keep on your hard drive

    nuke it from orbit

    there's nothing horribly vital except for

    well

    my screenplay, which I just finished the first draft of

    it's backed up on PDF but I don't know if I can translate it back to the format I need without retyping everything

    also I've never reformatted before and have no idea how I'd go about doing such a thing

    YaYa on
  • Fort1tudeFort1tude Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    you guys are too nice

    how am i supposed to get my pc repair business off the ground?

    Fort1tude on
    Steam ID - Fort1tude
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