Virus Virus

I have just looked at my sons laptop and found his AVG has not updated for
two months.
I ran Kapersky through the machine and found 15 viruses.
I think one of the viruses is a virus that stops the download of anti virus
so I am frigged.
How do I get an anti virus on the laptop so I can remove the viruses.

 

You will also need an anti spy ware program.
Run both

 

Do you have someone that can download an antivirus program for you to disk,
and then install it on your sons laptop?
Jim

 

You apparently did the online Kaspersky scan. If you download the 30 day
trial version of Kaspersky, it'll clean things up. And if the virus was
one that stops the downloading of antivirus, how did you do the online scan?

 

(Download Multi-AV, install it on your computer, update it, burn the
folder to a CD and then copy it to your son's computer and run it in
safe mode).

AVG is the least protective AV software I have experience with - switch
to one of the better versions.



Only download software you can validate as uncompromised - in the case
of non-vendor site you have no guarantee that the files are unmodified
or uncompromised. Anyone providing a link to a non-vendors site with a
direct download should not be trusted, the vendors sites are the safest
place to download their application.

No person of sound mind would download files from a hack site that
requires a password to access the unknown files when they are available
directly from the vendors.

Always remember - only download files from Trusted Sites.

The following links will take you to vendors sites for Spy Ware / Ad
ware removal tools and also for Antivirus tools. After you install any
of these applications and update them, run them in SAFE MODE to allow
them to properly clean your system.

First, make sure that your Java is updated to the latest version:
http://www.java.com/en/download/index.jsp

These sites are for downloading Anti-Malware and Anti-Spyware tools, in
order that I would use them myself:

Dave Lipman's tools:
Download MULTI_AV.EXE from the URL --
http://www.pctipp.ch/ds/28400/28470/Multi_AV.exe

AdAwareSE can be found here:
http://www.lavasoft.com/products/ad_aware_free.php

SpyBot Search and Destroy can be found here:
http://www.safer-networking.org/en/download/index.html

--
Leythos - (remove 999 to email me)

Fight exposing kids to porn, complain about sites like pcbutts1 that
create filth and put it on the web for any kid to see: Just take a look
at some of the FILTH he's created and put on his website:
http://forums.speedguide.net/archive/index.php/t-223485.html all exposed
to children (the link I've include does not directly display his filth).
You can find the same information by googling for 'PCBUTTS1' and
'exposed to kids'.

 

It allows a scan but will not clean

scan?

 

The 30 day trial period will.

 

Anti virus will slow your son's computer down. Just tell him not to ever use any
of that stuff. As long as his arse isn't capped like the suckers up in CanaDUH
then there's nothing to worry about you can't lose your house because he
downloads and uploads too many gigabytes a month.

 

If you are clueless enough to need antivirus programs, you probably don't
have shit worth saving anyway... just reformat, reinstall windows, and start
over. Eventually you may learn how to avoid problems, and not rely on
software to save you.
Or you could try an obscure OS like linux or OSX, etc. which pretty much no
one bothers to write viruses for.

 

It seems like the virus is blocking the downloading of all anti virus
programmes.
I can run online anti virus progs which identify the virus which appears to
be in the temp fill which I also cannot delete under delete all offline
content

 

If you know which files are causing a problem then boot into safe mode
& delete from there. If that doesn't work then boot into DOS & delete
from there.

 

Go back and read what Leythos wrote and follow his instructions. If you
can't do that, take the computer to a professional.

Oh, and don't top post. Makes it hard to follow the thread.