Steve Ellenoff wrote: > It sounds similar to one I got a few weeks ago. I was surprised since > I was running Firefox, but after reading about it, it's a security > hole in Flash, so any browser is vulnerable, and you know how many > pages use flash, right? > > From a separate computer I googled how to get rid of it, and was > able to do without a re-install. > > In a nutshell, I had to reboot in safemode, clear out temp files, and > look in windows directories for any new files that looked suspicous. > I also had to delete some registry entries. > > Once the registry entries were gone, the virus did not seem to re-run > once I came into Windows normally. From there I could browse again > and run malwarebytes to find and remove any left over junk. > > Consequently, a friend of mine had to use a restore point to get rid > of it, but that might have been a different version of the virus. > > Good luck- > Steve
Thanks, Steve. I ran combobox the other night per suggestions here and that seemed to fix it. It hasn't recurred yet, so, so far so good. -- Mike Babcock, MCP MB Software Solutions, LLC President, Chief Software Architect http://mbsoftwaresolutions.com http://fabmate.com http://twitter.com/mbabcock16 _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
