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xp problems

  • 05-02-2005 2:22am
    #1
    flogen
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 10,247 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    I'm pretty certain I have virus or something dodgy on my PC, but I don't know what exactly it is so I'm having difficulty getting information on it.

    Basically I formatted my PC recently (i run on windows xp home edition btw) and stupidly forgot to install my antivirus and firewall stuff before going back online. A few days later and my computer starts acting wierd. I noticed it first when my hard drive (60gb) was almost full despite the fact that I haven't installed much since the reboot and most of my files are still on the other partition.
    Anyway I deleted some of the crap I had downloaded on a p2p and about 2 minutes later the PC tells me the drive is full again. I reinstalled my virus software but "something" wont let me run it now and because it's old and in need of a update it probably wouldnt detect anything until I updated it. The spybot and ad-aware software I ran doesn't detect anything.

    Anyone know what the problem is and how I can deal with it?


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  • #2
    leeroybrown
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,563 ✭✭✭leeroybrown


    Stinger might be worth a shot. It's a relatively small download and will detect most of the major viruses currently spreading. I'd suggest running it in Safe Mode.

    And as a reminder to most people - installing a firewall on 2K/XP before connecting to the internet is vital. A quick look at firwall logs will quite often show attempted worm attacks multiple times per minute.


  • #3
    GuanYin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,552 ✭✭✭✭GuanYin


    Go to one of three places for a scan:

    http://pcpitstop.com

    http://www.pandasoftware.com/activescan/

    http://www.bitdefender.com/scan/licence.php

    I recommend PCpitstop first and then bitdefender.

    If it comes up with something then copy the log (from bitdefender) and post it.

    Also download and run hijackthis and post the log.


  • #4
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 92,385 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    An old antivirus is not much more use than no antivirus.

    Have a look on the stickies for other cleaners, and other antiviruses that you could use, eg: spyware blaster, the new microsoft one
    autoruns on the sysinternals site will also list some junk starting up - but don't touch anything you don't recognise as you could disable the windows interface !
    (must setup something on the BIKI for linkies to freeware apps )
    don't forget that spybot should be updated too.

    As for installing a firewall , one report reckoned an XP machine on broadband will be probed in about 16 minutes. , the firewall in XP SP2 will help stop stuff coming in , but will do nothing ito alert you if you are already compromised - zonealarm is recommended instead.

    I've also found spacemonger great for finding out what is taking up space on the drive and a full drive will cause many programs to keel over - if there isn't space on the drive then antivirus updates will fail.


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