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I think I have a virus :(
blaman:
I think I have a virus. :(
If I do, I'm pretty sure I've found it and it's sitting right in front of me ready to be squashed. But I don't really know.
Why I think I have a virus?
Well, I started my laptop today and surfed the forums a bit. Then played some StarportGE. After about an hour, windows shut down because of a fatal error. I booted back up thinking nothing of it. After another 30 minutes it did the same. This time, thinking there may be something going on, I tried to boot up in safe mode. Of course windows failed so I booted to the last known good configuration and attempted to run SpyBot: S&D. It tried to start but soon after froze so I tried again, and again. To no avail. By this point I was getting annoyed so I ran RunAlyzer and checked all of the start up directories and stuff and found a group of files that caught my eye. They all started with "YUR" followed by a number and some have a letter, so I did a search on the one at the top of the list: "YUR9D.exe". According to multiple sites and "experts" it's almost always associated with malware and is considered a threat. So I'm kind of worried and I literally have my finger on the delete button on the top right corner of my keyboard. I just thought I'd post this here and get some opinions before I go trigger happy with the delete button.
What should I do? D:
Sabbin:
--- Quote from: blaman on September 03, 2009, 12:53:41 AM ---What should I do? D:
--- End quote ---
Stop Downloading research.
And that antivirus software might've helped.
AGlass0fMilk:
Delete that stuff?
I searched it and every one of my results had "Can't get rid of Virus" or "Virus blah blah blah"
Caution:
If Windows crashed multiple times, you probably have a virus. It's always nice to have more than one antivirus system because some will catch things others won't, maybe even if the infected file is in one of the scanners.
Delete the files if you Googled and got that from a trustworthy site.
Sabbin:
Is AVAST good by itself?