[capty99]

This is by far the strangest problem I have ever heard of.

I took a risk a few days ago and downloaded a program and installed it that i knew had a 99.9% chance of containg a virus. but i did it anyways.

so forgive my stupidness for a minute and explain this to me.

i'm now on a completely different system, my home computer (the lappy is the one i killed) trying to find the best free antivirus program.

i found one, downloaded it but have to register it, so i opened up gmail to go and grab the key from it, click the email and it shutsdown firefox. woah.
do it again. same thing. time and time again. eventually i did get it to open on my roommates pc.

today i wanted to do a google search for best free antivirus and as i searched in the ff google toolbar, no matter what i type in addition to it, anything containing the word antivirus shuts down firefox when i click go.

fucked. up.

why.

also, what is the best free antivirus nowadays.

[no2pencil]

I recommend Avast. Since about every computer that comes into my shop with a Virus on it has AVG, I would suggest you avoid that AntiVirus like the plague.

Just a question, if it's crashing firefox, who cares? Enter the code into the AntiVirus & get to work. Worry about Firefox crashing later. Or am I misunderstanding the situation?

[capty99]

the firefox is on a seperate system so its unrelated. just wonder why the fuck.

avast is what i've been running and so far i'm in a loop of it fixing them , rebooting and finding more. its in deep.

on this computer that crashes ff, it actually does ie too.

the word antivirus i guess... makes me wonder if i have something lurking on here i didn't know about.

[no2pencil]

That's one of the best things Avast hast to offer, in my opinion. Performing a pre-OS boot scan, where the Viruses can't hide, live, nor protect themselves.

Muhahaha. It's like napalm. I don't know wtf I'm talking about.

[ferrari12508]

just use something like Bart PE to make a live windows disk that will allow you to check the HD for viruses, that works quite well

[DeCompile]

Remove the offending hard drive and insert it into a computer with an up to date virus scanner with up to date virus definitions.

Then scan the hard drive, remove any offending malware and reinstall into the original system.

[KYA]

no2pencil, on 26 Aug, 2008 - 09:33 PM, said:

I recommend Avast. Since about every computer that comes into my shop with a Virus on it has AVG, I would suggest you avoid that AntiVirus like the plague.

Just a question, if it's crashing firefox, who cares? Enter the code into the AntiVirus & get to work. Worry about Firefox crashing later. Or am I misunderstanding the situation?

Would you recommend the home version as much as the pro?

[Milto]

I have to agree with no2pencil Avast is the way to go due to low resource requirement and boot-time scan. If you can't install anything go get an Avira recovery CD ISO and boot it from a CD/USB. You'll run a Linux distro (I believe) and scan the drive clean without having to boot Windows.

This post has been edited by Milto: 13 July 2011 - 07:42 PM

[jvdubn]

What I would do.
( I assume you cant install anything. ie. msse or malwarebytes)
1. Download this: http://www.microsoft...us/default.aspx
It is Microsoft's antivirus that you can put on a flash drive and run.
2. boot in safe mode ie. less services. and run the program.
3. Re-download or reset your browser. I have seen viruses mess with these setting and cause redirection troubles in the browser even after they are gone.
EDIT: just realized how old this was, Hope he got it fixed

This post has been edited by jvdubn: 15 July 2011 - 04:17 PM

[hlx]

Am I mistaken? Is this not resurrected from 2008?

[no2pencil]

a'yup.

[Milto]

Woah sorry guys didn't notice the date . Was just skimming through the posts.

This post has been edited by Milto: 16 July 2011 - 05:53 PM