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Fan Area => The Hydlaa Plaza => Topic started by: Suno_Regin on September 16, 2005, 09:24:55 pm

Title: Backdoor, Graybird...
Post by: Suno_Regin on September 16, 2005, 09:24:55 pm

While cleaning my computer\'s files, uneeded items, etc. My Norton Anti-virus discovered a virus called \"Backdoor, Graybird\" and as I looked at the specs of this virus, it said that it coppied itself as a file in one of my computers, and upon deleting the file, I think thats how it got detected...

It appears that the damage it did to my computer was about a 45%, which is the cause of all these sudden technical problems...If anyone can give me a solution to getting rid of this virus, and protecting my computer from it coming again, I would appreciate it.

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Post by: Keyaz on September 16, 2005, 09:45:37 pm

to fix : re format the computer
to avoid : don\'t download the nuaghty files :|

or go to norton site and look up help there

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Post by: Suno_Regin on September 16, 2005, 09:52:41 pm

Well that explains how it got there ;P

So, feal like telling me how to reformat? (I\'m not good with these kind of things...) :/

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Post by: Suno_Regin on September 16, 2005, 10:11:25 pm

Nevermind, at the cost of about 79 dollars, I\'m going to get assistance from the Geek Squad about this, they said they\'re getting the same virus, so it must be recent...I think these papers I have printed out describing the Trojan Horse might help them find a way to delete it ;P

Backdoor Graybird... /me throws a poorly animated grenade at the file BG is copying

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Post by: Efflixi Aduro on September 17, 2005, 01:09:40 am

Could you explain what it does to me? My mcaffe subscribtion ended so i probably have it >_<

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Post by: Suno_Regin on September 17, 2005, 11:33:43 pm

Actually, I found out that this virus came from an update to SpySweeper, someone hacked into the website SpySweeper gets it\'s downloads from and caused everyone with it installed to get this virus...Geek Squad said I should be ok as long as my Norton is updated, and I have a good firewall

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Post by: Suno_Regin on September 17, 2005, 11:34:32 pm

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Originally posted by Demarthl
to fix : re format the computer
to avoid : don\'t download the nuaghty files :|

or go to norton site and look up help there

BTW, I\'m not taking advice from you again, Demarthl ;P

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Post by: MaidenIndigo on September 18, 2005, 01:04:09 am

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Originally posted by Suno_Regin
BTW, I\'m not taking advice from you again, Demarthl ;P

Should we take that to mean you\'ll continue downloading naughty files? ;)

~Indi

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Post by: Lordbug on September 18, 2005, 02:48:29 am

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Originally posted by MaidenIndigo

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Originally posted by Suno_Regin
BTW, I\'m not taking advice from you again, Demarthl ;P

Should we take that to mean you\'ll continue downloading naughty files? ;)

~Indi

lol xD
Hail for naughty files!

Easy way to get virus is: Open IE and go to any site and tada! you have your comp with loads of spyware and virus! :D
No need of naughty files :D

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Post by: Suno_Regin on September 18, 2005, 08:07:16 pm

Well at first I thought Demarthl was right, but after getting some REAL professional help, they said it was a SpySweeper update...

The virus started eating away at my computer, when I just turned it on it automatically scanned my disk drives and everything, so I know that its damaging my computer every second...I just have to wait it out, until SpySweeper updates a fix...:/