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URGENT - SOLVED READ NEW THREAD

by Steven Wagenheim
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SOLVED...ALL ON MY OWN TOO. LOL
#defender #remove #urgent
  • Profile picture of the author RedHat39
    Hey Steven if you're talking about that fake windows security trojan the best thing I've found is MalwareBytes @ malwarebytes.org. I've also had good success with SpyBots Search and Destroy @ safer-networking.org as well.
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  • Profile picture of the author Dennis Gaskill
    Steve, I don't know if you wanted someone to do it for you or help doing it yourself, but the instructions on this page: How to remove Advanced XP Defender (Removal Instructions) ...look fairly easy to follow.
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  • Profile picture of the author KimW
    Steven, read my post on how to get rid of a virus that Gordon Chandler had recently, My directions will work with your problem too I am willing to bet.
    Edit: Steven, if you want you can call me and I can walk you through it. Malwarebyte should run and it should fix it.
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    • Profile picture of the author Steven Wagenheim
      Originally Posted by KimW View Post

      Steven, read my post on how to get rid of a virus that Gordon Chandler had recently, My directions will work with your problem too I am willing to bet.
      Edit: Steven, if you want you can call me and I can walk you through it. Malwarebyte should run and it should fix it.
      Okay, my PC is essentially trashed. Fortunately, due to some smarts on
      my part, I can "manually" get things running.

      1. I tried to run the mbam.exe and it wouldn't run. So...

      2. I did a system restore to yesterday. I'd done one before and it worked
      fine so I figured that would solve the problem. It did. It got rid of the
      Maleware. But...

      3. I have a new problem. All my program associations are gone. For
      example, I go to my desktop and click on Word and it asks me what
      program I want to open this with. It asks me this for everything, including
      Firefox. I click on the program association and go to check off "Always
      Use This" but that box is grayed out and I can't select it. So every time
      I want to run something, I have to essentially find the file on my PC and
      click "Run"

      I can essentially keep things running and stay in business, but for all
      practical purposes, my PC is trashed. I can't do a reinstall now because
      I have too much to do. Plus, tax day is coming up soon.

      At the end of the month (usually around the 24th) I'll be all done with
      my work (I usually take all of the last week of the month off) and I'll do
      a complete reinstall. It was long overdue anyway.

      In the meantime, if anybody knows of a way I can get my program
      associations back to normal (I'll go do a search online when I get a chance)
      so I don't have to waste so much time, I'd be grateful. Even my system
      restore asks what program I want to run and I have no idea where to
      even look for that exe.

      Anyway, thanks for any help you can give me.

      If I ever catch the SOB who put me through all this, I will be put in jail
      for making his life a holy hell.
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  • Profile picture of the author KimW
    DO you have an OS installation disk? If so you can do an "repair" install .
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    • Profile picture of the author Steven Wagenheim
      Originally Posted by KimW View Post

      DO you have an OS installation disk? If so you can do an "repair" install .
      I had one. At least I'm sure I did, but I can't find it. I've found everything
      else but.

      Figures.

      Oh well, I've set up shortcuts so that all I have to do now is right click
      and choose "start" and the program will start. But if I want to use any of
      my system tools, I'm screwed.

      In the meantime, I'm not shutting down my PC this month until I do a
      reinstall.

      Been through this before and I'm sure I'll be through it again thanks to
      the *******s on the Internet who have nothing better to do than make
      other people's lives a holy hell.

      Like they say, payback is a bitch.
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