-- Posted by x FENRIS x at 7:01 am on Mar. 31, 2008 Who'd have thought? You go to certain...*ahem* sites and download missing files to run movies (titles whatever.exe) and you get a whole bunch of malware...what is the world coming to? That's kind of the story of my day though... So I was hoping to get some help from any tech-heads that might lend me a hand. This dotexe file went to my received files like everything else (automatically) does. I double-clicked on the icon in "my received files" and it dissapeared from there, creating several icons on my desktop including: Virusheat4.3 (or something), online security troubleshooting, and online security guide. It also created/changed several registry entries, most of which I think I've fixed with spybot S&D. There were several new programs that I found when in control panel, and there's some kind of new process in the bottom left that gives me a "fake" (spybot, 2008) spyware warning. I've run Norton but it hasn't found anything. On top of that, (and perhaps most worrying) I can't do a system restore. I've tried several dates and still can't get it to work. So I'm hoping that some kind of anti-virus Rembrandt will save the day for me on this one. Any ideas and solutions are welcome. As for posting pictures of Llamas laughing at me and such, I'd say that that's fair enough, but your post will probably be deleted -- Posted by berrycuda at 7:05 am on Mar. 31, 2008 Damn thats scarey dude let me look inot that one. -- Posted by ViLE at 7:06 am on Mar. 31, 2008 i surpose you were looking at porn? well now you know never to download those stupid spam shit. Notron helps but you have to buy it. Limewire could help but you probably would download a virus again Try http://rosiewolf.com/1A-27Z/ind-noubizns.htm -- Posted by espresso8097 at 12:17 pm on Mar. 31, 2008 Quote: from Alexia at 9:06 am on Mar. 31, 2008 i surpose you were looking at porn? well now you know never to download those stupid spam shit. Notron helps but you have to buy it. Limewire could help but you probably would download a virus again Try http://rosiewolf.com/1A-27Z/ind-noubizns.htm Why do people even bother with Norton?  Missed 20+ files when I had it and Avast free found them. To the OP, get either AVG free or Avast free and scan with those.  Scanning in safe mode sometimes works and finds things better. If you have the dough to fork over NOD32 and Kaspersky could take care of it.  But I have heard Kaspersky can be a little overprotective.   -- Posted by climber783 at 10:28 pm on April 1, 2008 I agree with the above post, just install Avast or AVG, they do very thorough scans, and should take care of all your problems.  I don't have experience with AVG, but Avast has a boot-time scan that can scan and fix files before windows even boots up, preventing further damage to your OS by these viruses.  www.avast.com if you want that one.