*Twiddles thumbs* So how is everyone else doing?

Discussion in 'The Lounge' started by Lilyannis143, Jul 22, 2012.

  1. Lilyannis143

    Lilyannis143 Private E-2

    I'm a little scared to do anything on my comp at the moment, aside from sit here checking the forum, for fear of picking up more malware, because of Zeroaccess.

    Am I being overly cautious? Or just cautious enough?

    Skyrim is calling me, but it might be too slow atm. (Not to mention, I want to pick up a mod, that requires me going to the site that ZA was hiding on. :cry )
     
  2. Major Attitude

    Major Attitude Co-Owner MajorGeeks.Com Staff Member

    Tought call, some could be set off my a timer or by doing something wrong. If you have personal info on your computer like banking info, I certainly would not be doing that for example. You could boot into safe mode to surf by rebooting and tapping f8 and select safe mode with networking. That SHOULD disable most issues bit make gaming impossible since drivers don't load.
     
  3. Lilyannis143

    Lilyannis143 Private E-2

    Well, fortunately I don't have any personal information like that. Just pictures, music, games.. It's all recreational.

    I will note one thing though, after I had a nasty bout with MSE restarting my comp a million times, it -supposedly- removed some of the Sirefef and I'm not being redirected, but I know it isn't gone. I'm not that lucky.

    We'll see what the deal is eventually, I suppose.
     
  4. Major Attitude

    Major Attitude Co-Owner MajorGeeks.Com Staff Member

    My first stop currently would be Malwarebytes. If that does not remove it, your in for a battle.
     
  5. DavidGP

    DavidGP MajorGeeks Forum Administrator - Grand Pooh-Bah Staff Member

    Hi and Welcome to the forum, me I'm grand thanks, but them I am on two glorious weeks vacation from work :) and finally the sun comes out in blighty :)

    I see you have a thread in our malware area and Chaslang is helping you, YOU are in very good hands with Chas, so with a combination of what MA has said above on personal files, and I would add here to backup any pictures and music you wish to save in the event of the final last option of re-installing Windows. It should not come to that option but always best to be prepaired.

    Good luck with your malware issue, between MA and Chas you will be sorted.
     

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