It's around that time again
12 years ago
See ya, Space Cowboy...
Where I get a random viral issue that's so silly! XD
Okay so, from what we can gather... we've been watching two kids for a friend of ours, and already aside from being a slight pain in the ass, ONE of them in 13 and has a laptop. Okay, no biggy. HOWEVER, I managed to get a look at it after two of our local computers got infected and my god, Norton, issues all over the place, slow processing, yeah, that computer is fucked to all high hell. He also mentioned something about hosting a game server and port 80 access, kinda odd he knows about that, or so m father mentions, but we told him not to do anything. My father should not have let him on the network, just the internet guest account because... NOW two of the computers have a bot infestation. If we try to use our cleaning program, it works TOO well, and keep nuking this super replicating bot, which is deep rooted into many system files, and apparently when it's cleaning, it's almost deleting those files? Soooo I had a lovely time trying to fix my PC after that, which I did manage, but I'm sure this bot is already balls deep in my PC and taking all kinds of info and using me as a hub for crazy shit :/ So if you get anything strange from me, do let me know! Also check with me if you get anything anyway, it may not be safe!
I wish i was smarter to help fix this, but I have no clue what to do. :/ I think it's also messing with my booting in, the last time or two the shutdown worked, and updates went, but I still had to tell the computer to start up normally and such, so it acts like it shutdown wrong I guess? Anyway, just a note that I may not be as active or may be computerless soon if this keeps up. I could probly afford a new PC however that bot is probly rummaging in our router now, so until my father gets home (yeah, there's the kicker, this all happened RIGHT before he had to take off for an important out of state engagement for his military job) I cannot do much. I will definitely be changing all my password information once this DOES get fixed, but until then I'm gonna be stuck botted a while. It doesn't seem to do anything YET, I haven't taken any big processing hits or whatnot, but yeah, hmm. I'm sure my computer will self destruct eventually, knowing my luck with this. XD
I hate kids. :B
Okay so, from what we can gather... we've been watching two kids for a friend of ours, and already aside from being a slight pain in the ass, ONE of them in 13 and has a laptop. Okay, no biggy. HOWEVER, I managed to get a look at it after two of our local computers got infected and my god, Norton, issues all over the place, slow processing, yeah, that computer is fucked to all high hell. He also mentioned something about hosting a game server and port 80 access, kinda odd he knows about that, or so m father mentions, but we told him not to do anything. My father should not have let him on the network, just the internet guest account because... NOW two of the computers have a bot infestation. If we try to use our cleaning program, it works TOO well, and keep nuking this super replicating bot, which is deep rooted into many system files, and apparently when it's cleaning, it's almost deleting those files? Soooo I had a lovely time trying to fix my PC after that, which I did manage, but I'm sure this bot is already balls deep in my PC and taking all kinds of info and using me as a hub for crazy shit :/ So if you get anything strange from me, do let me know! Also check with me if you get anything anyway, it may not be safe!
I wish i was smarter to help fix this, but I have no clue what to do. :/ I think it's also messing with my booting in, the last time or two the shutdown worked, and updates went, but I still had to tell the computer to start up normally and such, so it acts like it shutdown wrong I guess? Anyway, just a note that I may not be as active or may be computerless soon if this keeps up. I could probly afford a new PC however that bot is probly rummaging in our router now, so until my father gets home (yeah, there's the kicker, this all happened RIGHT before he had to take off for an important out of state engagement for his military job) I cannot do much. I will definitely be changing all my password information once this DOES get fixed, but until then I'm gonna be stuck botted a while. It doesn't seem to do anything YET, I haven't taken any big processing hits or whatnot, but yeah, hmm. I'm sure my computer will self destruct eventually, knowing my luck with this. XD
I hate kids. :B

tannim
~tannim
best advice, download a live linux cd/dvd image from a clean PC, burn it to DVD/CD, boot from that, copy your date to a USB drive, reinstall windows.

Duez
~duez
OP
Maybe someday in the future. This computer has a lovely option of a built in factory reset, it's been VERY useful, i just can't do it until A. The kid is gone, B. My dad gets back home to C. Fix the router so the bot is gone. XD