well. i have this problem.
started as a little annoyance, computer started to get slow. then everytime i tried to download something thru firefox, but the computer restarted. was like that for a couple days. then just starting firefox would restart the computer. the computer was slow and the hard drive was making sounds like i was copying tens of Gb simultaneously. all resources were used up.
could not connect to any antivirus website. could not download anything .exe.
scanned my pc with my antivirus (per antivirus, a local one), mytob worm was found, erased. rebooted on safe mode no lan, eliminated everything.
went back to the internet, still could not get to download anything. downloaded zonealarm firewall from emule, avg antivirus and adaware.
installed them run them. avg did not detect anything. ad aware neither.
thru zonealarm i clossed connection to lsass.exe, services.exe, svhost.exe and the usual system exes viruses target.
next reboot. my harddrive was scratching like crazy, and the pc was slow again.run avg again, nothing, ad aware, nothing. per antivirus detected and erased the viruses.
downloaded symantec mytob (mydoom) removal tool, but it found nothing.
i have a hardware firewall, plus the xp firewall, plus zonealarm allowing connection to only a handful of programs i know for sure are safe. (
yet on every reboot, my pc seems to get infected again. even after erasing everything with the lan cable disconnected.
i found the source of the browser hijack (even for firefox) with hijackthis and fix it up. but my pc still gets slow, scratches the hard drive like crazy, and seems to gets infected after a few hours of being cleansed. all xp sp2 patches are up to date.
what else can i do?
started as a little annoyance, computer started to get slow. then everytime i tried to download something thru firefox, but the computer restarted. was like that for a couple days. then just starting firefox would restart the computer. the computer was slow and the hard drive was making sounds like i was copying tens of Gb simultaneously. all resources were used up.
could not connect to any antivirus website. could not download anything .exe.
scanned my pc with my antivirus (per antivirus, a local one), mytob worm was found, erased. rebooted on safe mode no lan, eliminated everything.
went back to the internet, still could not get to download anything. downloaded zonealarm firewall from emule, avg antivirus and adaware.
installed them run them. avg did not detect anything. ad aware neither.
thru zonealarm i clossed connection to lsass.exe, services.exe, svhost.exe and the usual system exes viruses target.
next reboot. my harddrive was scratching like crazy, and the pc was slow again.run avg again, nothing, ad aware, nothing. per antivirus detected and erased the viruses.
downloaded symantec mytob (mydoom) removal tool, but it found nothing.
i have a hardware firewall, plus the xp firewall, plus zonealarm allowing connection to only a handful of programs i know for sure are safe. (
yet on every reboot, my pc seems to get infected again. even after erasing everything with the lan cable disconnected.
i found the source of the browser hijack (even for firefox) with hijackthis and fix it up. but my pc still gets slow, scratches the hard drive like crazy, and seems to gets infected after a few hours of being cleansed. all xp sp2 patches are up to date.
what else can i do?