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    Really nasty virus not able to delete

    Discussion in 'Security and Anti-Virus Software' started by lakersgo, Jun 23, 2009.

  1. lakersgo

    lakersgo Notebook Evangelist

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    Well, lately I've been experiencing problems with my keyboard and mouse. I replaced them but the problem persists, and then the entire OS started acting up, I realized I got a virus somewhere on my laptop. So I ran Avira, spybot, f-secure, malewarebyte and it's still there. I even ran in safe mode to no avail. I think the problem is that even in safe mode it still boots the keyboard and mouse so it didn't really help. I believe it's running as a process and I need to kill the process for antivirus to detect it. Any help on my problem would be gratly appreciated.
     
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  2. qhn

    qhn Notebook User

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    What type of problems are you having? Can we have a bit more details?

    Try install a different antivirus like Avast and run it. Some antivirus app catches virus where others missed.

    cheers ...
     
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    You can try to rename mbam.exe in the Malwarebytes folder to abc.exe and then run it again or try another program like SUPERAntispyware.
    But you're better off posting a Hijackthis log on a forum like Majorgeeks or Techsupport where you can get step by step instructions on how to clean everything.
    Read their instructions carefully and expect to wait for answers because you probably need the 'big guns' to clean everything.

    As an alternative, you can also simply backup important stuff, read on how to use a free backup program like DriveXML or Paragon, do a fresh install and updates, make a backup image and be finished in less time than waiting for cleaning instructions.
     
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    lakersgo Notebook Evangelist

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    The inputs from keyboard and mouse are not consistently received. Right click doesn't always work and H key could miss a few press. IE8 doesn't save cookies and the Webpage displayed are sometimes read from cache instead of queuing from the Internet. Maybe it has somethibg to do with win7 but I havnt heard anyone experiencing the same problem.
     
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