Recently my daughter confessed that she accepted and (choke) RAN an unknown attachment from an unknown user on MSN.
My first indication that something was amiss was that msconfig will run for about 5 seconds and then shut off. I tried taking a look in the AVG control centre and it also shut down. It also killed my Firefox preset Tabs.
In safe mode I ran Spybot S & D and it found FakeMsn8 and deleted it. I also ran Stinger and it found Qhosts and told me it repaired it. AVG turned up nothing in safe mode. Neither did Adaware.
However in normal mode I still can't run msconfig or the AVG control centre so I think it's still infected. I'm at work now so I can do any troubleshooting but I thought I'd post this message to see if I can get some advice in advance of going home to work on this.
Thanks for any help.
Gary
My first indication that something was amiss was that msconfig will run for about 5 seconds and then shut off. I tried taking a look in the AVG control centre and it also shut down. It also killed my Firefox preset Tabs.
In safe mode I ran Spybot S & D and it found FakeMsn8 and deleted it. I also ran Stinger and it found Qhosts and told me it repaired it. AVG turned up nothing in safe mode. Neither did Adaware.
However in normal mode I still can't run msconfig or the AVG control centre so I think it's still infected. I'm at work now so I can do any troubleshooting but I thought I'd post this message to see if I can get some advice in advance of going home to work on this.
Thanks for any help.
Gary
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