I had meant to do some more reviews today and get our “Halloween Review Series” started, but thanks to the “go.google” virus/ trojan thingee, I was off line all day today in a deathmatch wrestling with that particular menace.
It didn’t just redirect me and hijack my homepages…. oh no… nothing THAT simple. It also blocked access to any useful tech sites I might need to find removal info…. as well as blocking Spybot and AVG from updating. It also just about completely destroyed my entire Registry, the Windows Installer, totally unregistered ALL File Types in the system and brought this lil’ Catgirl to tears before I finally managed to stop it’s destructive rampage.
So now I’m sitting in the ruins of my data… with minimal internet access and most programming completely unusable. If I can… I’m going to be spending most of tomorrow repairing the carnage. Then we’ll see if I can finally get back to normal. So if I’m missing for a couple days, at least you few loyal readers will know why……
Why… why… poor lil’ me?
A virus that blocks antivirus websites usually do it by editing your hosts file. Open it up in a text editor (you can find it in \Windows\system32\drivers\etc\ in XP).
Leave the commented text but you can safely delete everything else in there. This should at least allow you to get on antivirus websites, though the virus may add stuff to it again on next boot if it hasn’t been cleaned yet.
Comment by Deeopey — October 28, 2008 @ 2:09 am