ok here's the problem..

a menu keeps popping up that says "Your system is probaly infected with the latest version of Spyware.Cyberlog-X" etc etc.
my desktop background has the "your systems screwed, click here" thing that changes everytime i restart/ turn my computer on.. i've tried running sweeps and i get no threats found.. any one have ANY idea how to get rid of this virus?

Do you have SpyBot-S&D installed or some anti-virus? I recommend AVG Free Edition. Another thing you could try is download the latest image of Knoppix (knoppix.com) and burn it to a CD, then load it on boot, use f-prot to scan your computer for viruses - there's also a Knoppix hack called Bluescreen Knoppix (http://www.l0t3k.org/linux/links/livecd/), but I haven't been able to find the image anywhere - it supposedly helps repair this kind of stuff more easily - these are live CDs so you'll need to boot from them. You know how to do that, right?

lol it sounds just like an annoying problem, its not making your system run slow is it? Or any other critical conditions? and what anti virus and/or spyware software do you have? I would say get a bootleg of spyware doctor, along with superantispyware free edition if you don't already have them. but if its not doing anything to bad to the system, im no expert but if you have windows, have a registry expert look at it, i bet he could find out whats wrong in the registry, regedit.exe will fix all the problems all you have to do is learn how to configure and see what has been placed inside of it or anything that looks suspicious, it can all be fixed there but you have to know how lol, so if you can't do any of that then if it really bothers you just reinstall

Try downloading Norton Antivirus. It deletes anything that even looks like a virus.

beagle wrote:Try downloading Norton Antivirus. It deletes anything that even looks like a virus.

VERY TRUE i have it don't forget to disable it while installing cain & Abel or it just wont let it install :p and while norton is on don't even look in the dir of cain or it'll delete the exe in a few seconds :p

Yeah.. Norton Antivirus can be very annoying...It has too much protection.

i've found that very little excapes between the fingers of mcaffe and S&D (naturally), and S&D has some advanced options pertaining to registry and cookies.......... may i also suggest keeping your registry and cookies deleted? CCleaner is a VERY useful program............. (also good for getting rid of the auto boots)

between the 3 of them i've only had a single adware, and i keep getting virtumonde (i use firefox, so no worries (i hope !)

Once Norton blocked itself:

A program identifying itself as Norton Industries has attempted to block your access to a program on your system. It has been quarantined.

beagle wrote:Once Norton blocked itself:
A program identifying itself as Norton Industries has attempted to block your access to a program on your system. It has been quarantined.

Due to heuristics.

Nuke the hard drive.
Get Linux.
Get another computer.
Get better anti-virus software.

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