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Que Laughter...
2007-02-09, 10:20 PM #1
Only one week after i install windows 2000 i get a virus.
Me being new to the whole virus's thing have come to the nerdiest place i know to ask for help.

So what should i do?
2007-02-09, 10:22 PM #2
if you don't have an anti virus program, get AVG free and run it regularly
Holy soap opera Batman. - FGR
DARWIN WILL PREVENT THE DOWNFALL OF OUR RACE. - Rob
Free Jin!
2007-02-09, 10:24 PM #3
Done.
And i have Spybot and Adaware too.
Anything else?
2007-02-09, 10:27 PM #4
Stop being you?
2007-02-09, 10:27 PM #5
Might help. But that's far beyond my capabilities.
2007-02-09, 10:46 PM #6
cue!
2007-02-09, 10:46 PM #7
Cue!
2007-02-09, 10:51 PM #8
Stop downloading so much porn.

I ran Windows 2000 for around 4 years. I never had to reinstall once, and I never got a virus. I didn't even have any anti-virus software.
>>untie shoes
2007-02-09, 11:00 PM #9
Queue!
"If you watch television news, you will know less about the world than if you just drink gin straight out of the bottle."
--Garrison Keillor
2007-02-09, 11:05 PM #10
what laughter?
Fincham: Where are you going?
Me: I have no idea
Fincham: I meant where are you sitting. This wasn't an existential question.
2007-02-09, 11:19 PM #11
Very nice, sugarless. :P
Pissed Off?
2007-02-10, 12:27 AM #12
Something tells me he pirated that "free" version of Windows 2000, thus getting a virus.
SnailIracing:n(500tpostshpereline)pants
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2007-02-10, 12:28 AM #13
I doubt he knows how to run bit torrent, otherwise he would have pirated XP.
2007-02-10, 12:29 AM #14
But I doubt XP will run on his craptacular computer.
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2007-02-10, 12:43 AM #15
No XP will never, ever, run on this computer.
Arr ye mateys thar be no pirating ahoy!
2007-02-10, 12:50 AM #16
Well, I just find it odd that, the second you try to install this "free" version of 2000, it not only fails but you post how this virus pops up right away. People all of a sudden don't just get computer viruses out of nowhere...

whatever *shrug*
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2007-02-10, 1:05 AM #17
Less CUE CUE more PEW PEW!
The cake is a lie... THE CAKE IS A LIE!!!!!
2007-02-10, 1:24 AM #18
Originally posted by Echoman:
But I doubt XP will run on his craptacular computer.


Obviously he doesn't need internets if all he can run is a crappy, outdated, vulnerable OS.
2007-02-10, 5:52 AM #19
How many Win2k service packs are there? 5?

I bet he's running a base install and he just got sasser or something.
2007-02-10, 6:39 AM #20
You probably got Blaster or Sasser or some variant. They'll infect you if you use an outdated version of 2000 or XP, with all the vulnerable services left running.
You should reformat, and install 2000 again and this time without your internet cable attached.
Then run this program (of course you'll have to download it beforehand and save it to a floppy-disk or something) from the command line* with the /all option. This disables all services that could be attacked, giving you time to connect to the internet and download all service packs and patches.

* go to start --> run, type in cmd and press enter.
From there you need to navigate to where you saved the svc2kxp.cmd file with the cd (change directory) command. cd.. goes a directory down. If you've saved it to a diskette you get there by typing a:
You run the program by typing
Code: 
svc2kxp.cmd /all
Sorry for the lousy German
2007-02-10, 7:10 AM #21
Originally posted by sugarless5:
what laughter?


:P
nope.
2007-02-10, 7:34 AM #22
Kew!
If you think the waiters are rude, you should see the manager.
2007-02-10, 7:41 AM #23
whoo! Whoo!
A computer's worst nightmare:
0010111010011110210011010001

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2007-02-10, 8:57 AM #24
Q!?
2007-02-10, 9:27 AM #25
Originally posted by Tiberium_Empire:
Me being new to the whole virus's thing have come to the nerdiest place i know to ask for help.


Am I the only one that thinks this is a complete crock? How long have you been running an outdated discontinued OS? You've gotten viruses before. Trust me. In fact, I'm sure there's still plenty of nasties running around that like to feast on Win98s vulnerabilities.
"In the beginning, the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move." - Douglas Adams
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Last Stand
2007-02-10, 9:46 AM #26
kew?
Holy soap opera Batman. - FGR
DARWIN WILL PREVENT THE DOWNFALL OF OUR RACE. - Rob
Free Jin!
2007-02-10, 9:48 AM #27
Kweh!
nope.
2007-02-10, 10:04 AM #28
Kupo!


Anybody who goes to #massassi has probably heard me complain about the goddamn mouth-breathing knuckle-dragging morons who run computers with insecure operating systems and let them get infected with viruses that redirect spam or commit DDOS attacks. Basically they ruin the entire internet for everybody and they should be buried alive with their computer.

Isn't it funny how things work out?
2007-02-10, 10:15 AM #29
Try leaving XP on the internet with no service packs. :eek:
2007-02-10, 10:18 AM #30
Originally posted by Obi_Kwiet:
Try leaving XP on the internet with no service packs. :eek:


I'm used a laptop with XP and no service packs installed for 4 and a half years. Only updated 3 weeks ago. Had no virus problems.

Just don't download questionable material and you are fine.
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2007-02-10, 11:55 AM #31
Que?
2007-02-10, 1:13 PM #32
Originally posted by Echoman:
I'm used a laptop with XP and no service packs installed for 4 and a half years. Only updated 3 weeks ago. Had no virus problems.

Just don't download questionable material and you are fine.

You were behind a router with a packet filter, right?
Sorry for the lousy German
2007-02-10, 2:26 PM #33
Yeah, seriously. I have a copy of XP with SP1a. Last time I reinstalled and jumped online to have it immediately update and download SP2, I got a virus WHILE it was updating. I wasn't surfing, I wasn't chatting, it was just sitting there, connected, and updating, and I got a virus.
"In the beginning, the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move." - Douglas Adams
Are you finding Ling-Ling's head?
Last Stand
2007-02-10, 3:18 PM #34
I'm using "windows xp service back 3 build 2."

Whatever the hell that is... a friend gave it to me.
>>untie shoes
2007-02-10, 3:21 PM #35
Theres only 2 SPs...
nope.
2007-02-10, 3:35 PM #36
I know... that's the strange thing about it.
>>untie shoes
2007-02-10, 3:45 PM #37
Originally posted by Jon`C:
Anybody who goes to #massassi has probably heard me complain about the goddamn mouth-breathing knuckle-dragging morons who run computers with insecure operating systems and let them get infected with viruses that redirect spam or commit DDOS attacks. Basically they ruin the entire internet for everybody and they should be buried alive with their computer.

But not the people who create these things in the first place, oh no :P
2007-02-10, 4:27 PM #38
Originally posted by Echoman:
Well, I just find it odd that, the second you try to install this "free" version of 2000, it not only fails but you post how this virus pops up right away. People all of a sudden don't just get computer viruses out of nowhere...

whatever *shrug*



Yeah, virus infection isn't usually instantaneous on a brand-new install.


Of course, if he downloaded a dirty warez version with a virus slip-streamed into the install, then that is a different story altogether...

Look at it like this: How many ways are there to get legit windows 2000 for free?
2007-02-10, 5:05 PM #39
I can only think of one, and it is legit. But that's not how TE got his.
I had a blog. It sucked.
2007-02-10, 5:41 PM #40
Originally posted by Echoman:
I'm used a laptop with XP and no service packs installed for 4 and a half years. Only updated 3 weeks ago. Had no virus problems.

Just don't download questionable material and you are fine.




You must be behind a router and stuff man. You don't have to even open the browser to get crap on XP with no service packs.
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