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[elementalhero]

Sasuke has a virus.

I can't believe it.

I'm posting this from work.

I really can't be sure of what it is, but it's a program that got onto the laptop--I don't know HOW--and pretends to be a spyware-removal program.  I think it's a virus because it pops up in the windows sidebar like it's a windows security thing, but it has a whole bunch of grammatical errors that Microsoft would never commit and the little icon isn't the red shield with an X, it's a red dot with an X that wants to look like the Windows shield.

I feel sick to my stomach and I can't stop thinking about it.  If my laptop goes, I'm shit-fracked.  There is no possible way for me to continue this school year using the family desktop, which may have an unrelated virus of its own.

McAfee claims to have quarantined it, but I can't be sure.  I shut off the laptop's wireless adapter to try to contain the damage.  I don't know what the program/virus actually does.

If my parents find out, I'm completely dead.

Help?

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[star-x-faery.livejournal.com]

D:

*hugs and sends good thoughts Sasuke's way*

[bamboozle.livejournal.com]

But... but it isn't your fault if it got a virus :/ Sometimes they are just on sites that you visit and the like...

Uhm, try Malware Bytes Anti-Malware. You can download it for free and it is way, way better than McAfee. My roommate used it when he had some computer problems that sound similar to yours and it seems to have done the job nicely.

[keepdreamingxx.livejournal.com]

I agree with Malware Bytes. It's supposed to have gotten rid of many nasty viruses like that.

I got rid of a pseudo anti-spyware software using AVG, Spybot Search and Destroy, and Ad-Aware. You can download all of them for free.

Hope that helps. ♥ I get terrible viruses like that all the fucking time, so. XD;;

[abrof.livejournal.com]

I to use the AVG anti virus ( http://free.avg.com/ ) It's free and works as good if not better than McAfee or Norton. But I would also download Malware Bytes ( http://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam.php ) between the two of them Sasuke should be safe