I Have A Virus!

[h1]

Click on the word "Security" in my sig and download AVG and NOD32. I also recommend that you download Spybot-S&D and XCleaner.

[Xero Grid]

Sigh...

Virus removal....
nsane has the NOD32 stand-alone scanner.
McAfee AVERT Stinger may help, too.

Antivirus....
NOD32 is excellent
AVG is excellent, even the free version.

Spyware Removal....
HijackThis! and CWShredder can take care of the more harmful spyware.
SpySweeper is excellent, but is shareware.
Ad-aware
Spybot Search and Destroy

Personally, I don't care about admin status, but to be safe, you should have a limited account to sign into more often. It's easier to switch in XP.

How else can you prevent crap like this? You'd be surprised how easy it can be....
Can it get any easier than this?

Do you know how many times people have posted something like this?

-- Xero Grid --

[ilw]

Originally posted by DWk+9 April 2004 - 04:48--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (DWk @ 9 April 2004 - 04:48)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-muchspl2@8 April 2004 - 21:05
no
if you didn&#39;t catch this virus while you were admin, if wouldn&#39;t have ever done near the damage you are trying to fix
what I&#39;m suggesting is don&#39;t log on as admin
it prevent any system wide problems like what you have
if you fix it or rather when you give up and reformat
don&#39;t make the same mistake twice

I think that he means he has admin priveleges, not logged as admin. Most people think that if they have one user on the machine, they are admins. Get it right, you have ADMIN PRIVELEGES. You have to log on as ADMINISTRATOR to be THE admin [/b][/quote]
What difference is there between the admin account and an account with admin privileges ?Surely there is no difference, as xp doesn&#39;t stop you from doing anything (no matter how stupid) when you have admin privileges.
I think muchspl was suggesting logging in as a limited user, which is a really good idea, but pisses me off too much for words.

[aoyv73]

limited user is a joke suh as you cant install a game from cd but you can download and install from the web and you can still do lots of damage

[shn]

In theory there is no difference. However, if you ever have to use the recovery console for repair options, etc. you will need to be the offical Administrator.

Why the hell would anybody use a limited account. The default limited account that windows has are really not that limited. You can still do something stupid as a limited user and it can mess up some windows functions globally.

Unless you literally manually configure group policy and tell windows what limited users can and can not do then you might as well log in as admin everytime because it does&#39;nt really matter.

[delphin460]

ok to clear this up read on

ok if you click on start and read what it says next to log off

it will say something like log off ( your name )

this means that you are logged in and in most cases you have admin privilages

it does not mean you are logged in as the administrator

the administrator account is a default account set by windows, usualy you wont even see it, the only way to get to it is to log off and log in as the administrator ( if you know the password ect )

if you start in safe mode you can choose to log in as your account or the administraion account

so yes never log in to the administrator account and surf thats correct, but you wouldnt do this anyway

[ck-uk]

I do to,it only attacks files named female.Pussy virus

[ilw]

Originally posted by delphin460@9 April 2004 - 12:17
so yes never log in to the administrator account and surf thats correct, but you wouldnt do this anyway

the point is that it makes no difference (at least to any virii/trojans) if you log in as admin or if you log in as someone with admin privileges as xp really only has 2 security levels built in.

[delphin460]

there is one thing that can happen , a virus or spyware/adware can hide in the docs and settings for administrator, and things like spybot ect only check the users doc and settings , there for it could cause a problem

[shn]

Originally posted by delphin460@9 April 2004 - 06:17
ok to clear this up read on

ok if you click on start and read what it says next to log off

it will say something like log off ( your name )

this means that you are logged in and in most cases you have admin privilages

it does not mean you are logged in as the administrator

the administrator account is a default account set by windows, usualy you wont even see it, the only way to get to it is to log off and log in as the administrator ( if you know the password ect )

if you start in safe mode you can choose to log in as your account or the administraion account

so yes never log in to the administrator account and surf thats correct, but you wouldnt do this anyway

@delpin460

Somewhat. You are speaking of default installs of XP. Typically XP Home. Xp pro does it as well but there is a fix you can get that will actually have the Welcome Screen diplay the Administrator account. From dougknox.com
XP_AddAdministrator.zip

Eg. XP Home, usually will boot up after install and present the Welcome Screen. If you take for example, any windows machine can be configured to display the login prompt where you can enter username and password. It is part of the group policy setting/settings that can be configured with gpedit.MSC. You can also find it under Administrative tools. It is typically for Nt or System Administrators for group policy on a Windows Domain but it resides on client machines as well. "That way even a home user can set up their box up like a PRO." (cheezy catch phrase)


Ok delpin460, anything below the line is not directed towards you. I just want to add it in my post.
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Since XP Home can not be configured to join a domain it is really crap. XP Pro is fully loaded (almost too loaded) and the fact that anyone would have anything other between thoose 2 would be one of either 2 things:

1. You Fucked Up&#33; You bought a crappy computer with bloated bundled software and an edition of XP Pro came with it.. Although you may have been thinking they were the same, or that you did not need the features or what not................ you still got screwed.

2. You are one of thoose people that thinks you know what you are talking about in reference to the claims that home users do not need XP Pro.

Bottom Line...............Xp Pro has more features, and if you are going to buy a crappy computer or get stuck with one the least you can do is get your lazy arse up and get a DECENT copy of XP since it is crap anyway.

I personally prefer WIndows 2000 PRO on an Alienware or some other nice machine (don&#39;t hate). However, don&#39;t quote me on that because I preferably use *nix.