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[moc]

i was looking for a crack for a game the other day and downloaded a shitty virus... its on my harddrive in my windows/system32 folder and the file effected is the wininet.dll file
i've downloaded an uncorrupted version of the file but it wont let me replace the bad one...

anyone have any ideas?

 

[spiritualtramp]

Go back in time and install some spyware.

 

[Napalm]

i was looking for a crack for a game the other day and downloaded a shitty virus... its on my harddrive in my windows/system32 folder and the file effected is the wininet.dll file
i've downloaded an uncorrupted version of the file but it wont let me replace the bad one...

anyone have any ideas?

You got configsafe or such other prorgramme installed?

 

[guy of the tiger]

download the micrsoft anti-spyware thingy - thats sorts alotta shit out.
other than that you may have to do it manually which is a pain in the grass and involves mucking around in the registry and stopping processes in the taskmanager and disabling things in msconfig etc etc etc

i was looking for a crack for a game the other day and downloaded a shitty virus... its on my harddrive in my windows/system32 folder and the file effected is the wininet.dll file
i've downloaded an uncorrupted version of the file but it wont let me replace the bad one...

anyone have any ideas?

 

[It Will Never Last]

i was looking for a crack for a game the other day and downloaded a shitty virus... its on my harddrive in my windows/system32 folder and the file effected is the wininet.dll file
i've downloaded an uncorrupted version of the file but it wont let me replace the bad one...

anyone have any ideas?

Have you identified the virus? If not, google for wininet.dll/virus and see if you get lucky.

There was a thread on here a few weeks ago about spyware if I recall, there was a few links in it that might help.

 

[moc]

You got configsafe or such other prorgramme installed?

nope

 

[moc]

Have you identified the virus? If not, google for wininet.dll/virus and see if you get lucky.

my norton anti virus thing is calling it bloodhound.w32.ep but seemingly bloodhound is a name norton use for things they arent sure of... and it wont delete or fix it anyhow.
have run my spybot search & destroy and adaware se but no use

 

[snap-apple]

you could try stinger http://vil.nai.com/vil/stinger/
also try booting into safe mode and replacing the file (how to access safe mode)

 

[It Will Never Last]

OK, no idea if these will help, but google search for bloodhound.w32.ep returns:

http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/201143

http://forums.techguy.org/t266238.html

 

[moc]

think i got it sorted, thanks

 

[zebra heart attack]

just a passing point...

there's a big difference between antispyware software and antivirus software. you need both!

for free antivirus i find avg does the job..
http://free.grisoft.com

 

[penexpers]

Was the game worth it in the end?

 

[It Will Never Last]

think i got it sorted, thanks

Good to hear, I had to reinstall the OS on this laptop last week after I caught some nasty bastard that set up its own user account in XP, disabled Norton Internet Security, stopped me from updating NIS and Windows, and pissed me off with a feck load of pop-ups. Nasty business all round.

I now :heart: Firefox. IE sucks.

 

[moc]

Was the game worth it in the end?

i'll tell you when i get it running

have i learned any lessons? only time will tell.