charlie74 Posted May 12, 2010 Share Posted May 12, 2010 hi folks, just needing some advice with vista,, have been hit with a virus off face book ,, it created a file in the general programs file and i need to take ownership of it to delete the main folder for it, the virus folder name is SGPSA, and it a fastsearch link and seems to overide IE, well it wanted too but couldnt, just tripped the alerts everytime you used IE , ive been able to disable the virus by deleting the main bit from its folder but there are other bits there i cant remove/delete,, says i dont have permission etc,, ive been able to assign permissions to me via propertys/security etc,, but its still not allowing me too remove the folder and contents, etc,, i can rename and move/copy but thats it not overly worried as i can keep an eye on it, but i hear they can rebuild themselves/redown load the missing files Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wwwd Posted May 12, 2010 Share Posted May 12, 2010 You have anti-virus software don't you? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eetaylog Posted May 13, 2010 Share Posted May 13, 2010 Try either: 1) Booting into safe mode and try deleting the files/folders from there. 2) Roll back your system settings to a date before you got the virus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charlie74 Posted May 13, 2010 Author Share Posted May 13, 2010 yeah i have anti virus software and firewalls etc,, hence the alerts that said it was there ) and cheers eetay ill try the safe mode thing, already tried a roll back but it steals the system build date as its last modified/created date, dunno if that affects rollbacks but it was still there, and i know i only just picked it up as it came off a facebook app last week cheers guys Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wwwd Posted May 13, 2010 Share Posted May 13, 2010 I'm confused, I don't understand how Facebook can give you a virus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duffa Posted May 13, 2010 Share Posted May 13, 2010 I'm confused, I don't understand how Facebook can give you a virus. by clicking stupid links like... " hey check out this funny video i found of you " or such , dont have any sympathy for anyone that falls for crap like that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wwwd Posted May 13, 2010 Share Posted May 13, 2010 I'm confused, I don't understand how Facebook can give you a virus. by clicking stupid links like... " hey check out this funny video i found of you " or such , dont have any sympathy for anyone that falls for crap like thatThat's what I mean, but surely you would have to be stupid enough to download something to your machine, then actually install it? You can't get a virus by just looking on websites. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScORTED Posted May 13, 2010 Share Posted May 13, 2010 download malwarebytes anti malware... from download.com that should sort you out. If your still having problem, head to pchelpforum.com nice friendly place for a bit of advice Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charlie74 Posted May 13, 2010 Author Share Posted May 13, 2010 cheers scorted,, and the virus came from a mafia wars invite link, been a spate of it as the links are genuine but someone has redistributed it with an extra file, like atm theres another one which only affects mafia wars where by it automatically sends suggested members to 85 random people, etc,, annoying but ultimatly harmless Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eetaylog Posted May 13, 2010 Share Posted May 13, 2010 did you try safe mode? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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