Thread: Help! Virus!
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Old 10-02-2003, 11:46 AM   #1
DJG
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Join Date: March 16, 2001
Location: Manchester, England
Age: 36
Posts: 1,109
I think I've got a virus and it's causing a LOT of problems!

It won't let me start very many programs, but my dialler and IE are two that seem to work. I found ominous files suddenly appearing on my firewall, I managed to delete them. There were .tmp files all over my computer that wouldn't delete, but now I've deleted a file that appeared in my Windows Directory called rics.exe I can delete them.

My virus scanner is running overtime trying to find a virus and scanning my entire hard drive for a virus. I've terminated all the none-essential processes running on my computer using Task Manager, I actually terminated a system essential process and caused a restart due to RPC.

My firewall isn't working at all since it won't start so I'm on an unsecure connection here! I've also just noticed a folder I haven't had before called "WUTemp" on my hard drive. Does anyone else have it?

Things are now a lot worse, I can't open display settings because it can't find rundll32.exe

I've ran a complete virus scan and nothing has been found. Nothing works. I'm not even sure how I can get IE and Outlook Express to work. It's obviously a virus because I can open up the folder with the program in it and it says it can't find the path, despite the fact I've opened it AT it's location!

If anyone has any advice I'd really appreciate it!
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