Yay, I've got a virus.
Or some goddamn thing that has essentially taken over my computer.
I just turned it on this morning, did what I normally do (check mail, look here) et cetera and then a bunch of crazy stuff started happening with things popping up all over (popups, warnings, little black windows with ...system32/cmd.exe) and I've never seen this before. It worked just fine last night.
So I run the spybot thing and it finds a bunch of nasties and gets rid of them. Then it Spybot starts spitting out warniings, dozens of them, about "registry changes" and I have to approve or deny. I don't like the sound of the word "change" so I figured the safest bet would to deny and this goes on for a while. Can't do anything else while this goes on and you can't ignore it.
So yeah, spybot has done it's thing and now appears to be continuing to do it. I also run a Norton virus scan and nothing. But it's absolutely clear that something is going on because the whole thing has slowed to a crawl (it won't even keep up with my typing) and CPU usage fluctuates wildly between 30 and 100% when I'm doing nothing. And I can just hear it "computing" while it would normally be quiet. It's doing something, but I don't know what it is.
Any suggestions? Would Telus (my ISP) be able to help?
Oh yeah, and you can probably tell my description and vocabulary that I"m not exactly a "computer guy".
On a related note, the nimrods and crooks behind this kind of thing desevrve to die a painful death.
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