WTF… New Virus?
 

Today I tried to look at a .wmv that was posted on a msg board, my media player wouldn’t open (it would start and close in less then a second and make a sound like something downloaded) so I assumed it was a bad link.

Later I tried to download some content from a site and when I clicked on the link, I got a search engine, so I thought it was her and told her to fix her links.

Then I decided to try that .wmz link again since my wife got it to work on her pc, and still it would not play, so I went to windows.com and tried to download windows media player 9, and when I click on the link, I got the search engine page again.

Any idea what this would be? A virus? Something corrupted?

I ran webshredder (said nothing found) and now instead of the search engine I get http:///

I ran spybot S&D and nothing.

HELP!

I can not even load the WMP9 from the start menu and my own movies will not work.

Try here Torn http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/ :)

I have tried spybot and adware but they dont get most of the stuff out. My buddy gave me a copy of spysweeper and man those that clean the computer of spyware. Good luck |peace|

Thanks to MML, I got rid of it, he said it was a CWS and it deleted my windows media player.

Man, If I ever meet someone who makes these things....|raygun|

I had just spent 4 hours on KatVixen's pc yesterday because she had a redirect on her broweser, so another 2 hours on my pc wasnt as bad as it could have been I gusse.

Thanks for the Time and Help MML! I'll be sure to buy you a drink or 2 |waves|

I am happy it worked out for ya Torn :)

I picked up this piece of crap http://searchpage.cc/ and there uninstall doesn't work I've spent the last hour trying to uninstall it. What a lovely way to end my day |angry| |pcsucks|

I don't know what is more scummy... the people that ptu these thigns on your system or the companies that buy traffic from these losers and reward them for being scum.

It is a dirty, ugly, silly, stupid, and almost criminal business at times.

Alex

About a week ago I spent over 24 hours ridding my computer of spyware. I had been running a few of the freeware spy sweeper programs but like Majorpaydave said, most of them don't catch a lot of the crap out there.

My husband got me a program from Office Depot called Spyware X-terminator by Stompsoft. Works beautifully!! I'm amazed my system even worked when I first ran this program and saw the hundreds and hundreds of spy ware traces on my system!|pissed|

I had the same thing, installed and ran :
Hijack this, adware 6.0, CWSshredder, spy sweeper and it got rid of the browser hijacking but now all redirects or broken pages go to http:///


|pissed|

All I did was update CWSshredder and choose fix, I downloaded it yesterday, and today there was an update, so if you havent tried that I would.

Good Luck