General Discussion & Chat: GYPSIES REMEMBER BASIL part 4, 1 by Metrosideros

Metrosideros wrote:
Hows'it folks! Welina me ke aloha!

I've been messing with a virus for the past couple days which, shut my entire system down.
It originated as an attachment to an Avast anti-virus update. It stopped me from making an Internet connection, It prevented me from saving files, and it would not allow me to do anything but make an Avast update (which was bogus as I was not connected). I tried to remove the program, but the virus would only give me the option of making a "Change" from English language to Arabic.

I contacted Avast through my neighbor's PC and they sent the "HijackThis" program to download as a measure to stop the virus. I saved the program to a CD, brought it home and downloaded it, and here I am again.

In case anyone is having a similar problem, here is the HijackThis program from Avast to stop intruders from attaching a virus to their product.

http://public.avast.com/~zrubecky/hijackthis.exe

Makes me ill that anyone would spend their time to cause problems for other people. (The kind of person I'd smack!)
Hope nothing like that happens to you'se folks.

Here is some progress!