a newbie here

hello, i am newbie here; i heard about major geek site word of recommendation. i gave myself this screen name because i like computers, computers like me, i broke my computer by accident of course several times and fixed computer my own self. lol.

 

Welcome to Major Geeks

That is a very cool name too Hope to see you around the forums!


G

 

hi there!

Stick around and you will learn a whole lot. Welcome

 

:wave and welcome to MG's..

 

Hi all,

I am a newbie here as well. I am not familiar yet with the forum and I need big help. I have a problem with my computer. One time my anti virus was expired. Then this virus invaded while my computer did not have any anti-virus. I got it from USB drive.

In my USB drive that was infected, there is a file called autorun.inf, and there is file folder that you cannot delete, no matter how many times you try to do that. Then I download trial version of CA Anti-Virus. And without doing any preventing action, because I did not think I need to, I did the scanning. Yes CA found quite many viruses called "win32/dodaykil.b" and the action is to delete them.

But then most of the system files (in drive C become hidden, only "Documents & Settings" that is left visible. And since I scanned some USB drives and some external hard drives too, their files also became hidden. I have tried many many times to "show the hidden files" using Folder Option from the Tools menu on Windows Explorer, but it never works. Those files are kept hidden.

Has anyone had similar problem? And does anyone know how to do with this virus "win32/dodaykil.b"? How can I get all my files visible?

Thank you.

 

:wave and welcome to MG's. first read this.
http://forums.majorgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=35407
then start a NEW thread in the malware forum
http://forums.majorgeeks.com/forumdisplay.php?f=35
and post the results of your scan in there. good luck.

 

I need to learn. Thanks a lot.

 

your welcome juvo. the malware team here are the best around they will help fix you up.