John from Riverside Posted April 17, 2008 Posted April 17, 2008 Yesterday somehow my computer was hit with a malware that was downloading all kinds of stuff onto my computer (including websites in my favorites and icons on my desktop NETBOOSTER I think it was called) I ran my antivirus and spybot search and destroy programs a few times and no longer have these on my computer. BUT for some unknown reason now I cannot get my internet radio stations to play. I can access the sites that have the link to them but when I click the link they only partially come up and just hang there not doing anything. Can anyone help?
kegtapr Posted April 17, 2008 Posted April 17, 2008 Head Californee way, you'll get to listen for 40 seconds a day. Do you have sound on your computer at all or is it just the internet radio? Have you tried clearing your cache?
Chilly Posted April 17, 2008 Posted April 17, 2008 What browser? What media player are these stations using?
thebug Posted April 17, 2008 Posted April 17, 2008 Yesterday somehow my computer was hit with a malware that was downloading all kinds of stuff onto my computer (including websites in my favorites and icons on my desktop NETBOOSTER I think it was called) I ran my antivirus and spybot search and destroy programs a few times and no longer have these on my computer. BUT for some unknown reason now I cannot get my internet radio stations to play. I can access the sites that have the link to them but when I click the link they only partially come up and just hang there not doing anything. Can anyone help? Try holding down thr CRTL key while you hit the link (to temp disable pop-up blockers)
Draft Maniac Posted April 17, 2008 Posted April 17, 2008 Head Californee way, you'll get to listen for 40 seconds a day. Do you have sound on your computer at all or is it just the internet radio? Have you tried clearing your cache? Nice! That south park was awesome!
In-A-Gadda-Levitre Posted April 17, 2008 Posted April 17, 2008 I'm assuming Windows Media Player still works, make sure. Reinstall it if it doesn't. If that doesn't do it, START/ACCESSORIES/SYSTEM TOOLS/SYSTEM RESTORE/ and check RESTORE MY COMPUTER TO AN EARLIER TIME
ricojes Posted April 17, 2008 Posted April 17, 2008 If that doesn't do it, START/ACCESSORIES/SYSTEM TOOLS/SYSTEM RESTORE/ and check RESTORE MY COMPUTER TO AN EARLIER TIME Um...Wouldn't that restore it to when the NETBOOSTER malware was on the machine?
kegtapr Posted April 17, 2008 Posted April 17, 2008 Um...Wouldn't that restore it to when the NETBOOSTER malware was on the machine? Not if he picked the day before.
In-A-Gadda-Levitre Posted April 17, 2008 Posted April 17, 2008 Not if he picked the day before. yeah, you choose a restore point from before the time that the malware was loaded on your computer.
John from Riverside Posted April 17, 2008 Author Posted April 17, 2008 Problem.....it wont allow me to pick any day except for yesterday and today It tells me I have to pick a bolded date.......but there are none in April and it wont let me go back to March. By the way.....other media's seem to work like U tube, buffalo bills.com, etc. It seems to be just the on line internet
John from Riverside Posted April 17, 2008 Author Posted April 17, 2008 sometimes free porn sucks. yes sometimes it does....but not in this case as it was my work computer.
In-A-Gadda-Levitre Posted April 18, 2008 Posted April 18, 2008 ok, I'd rebuild Internet Explorer and clean up any obvious corruption by running the System File Checker, assuming that's your browser. You might need the Windows CD to replace some files. Click Start, click Run, then type sfc /scannow, and then press ENTER. Restart the computer when System File Checker is finished Then reinstall the latest version of Windows Media Player here If this doesn't work, you have some other corruption in Windows that won't be quite so easy to resolve
In-A-Gadda-Levitre Posted April 18, 2008 Posted April 18, 2008 ok, I'd rebuild Internet Explorer and clean up any obvious corruption by running the System File Checker, assuming that's your browser. I forgot to mention that if you're running Internet Explorer V7, you need to reinstall that as well here the order would be: 1) run sfc 2) reinstall IE 7 3) reinstall WMP
John from Riverside Posted April 18, 2008 Author Posted April 18, 2008 Hey faking, I think I still have some kind of spyware/malware runing on my computer....I ran Spybot and my virus program several times in safe mode yesterday but I am noticing that while I am not gettin all kinds of pop ups.....my browser is periodically being hijacked and sent to a webpage other then the one I inteneded to go to. Also....on some of the sites I have a yellow strip across the top of the pag telling me that I might have spyware on my computer. I think I am still infected. Not sure what to do.
In-A-Gadda-Levitre Posted April 18, 2008 Posted April 18, 2008 yeah, I thought maybe that was the case, but since you were pretty confident that it was removed, I took the corrupted windows path... there's two choices, one easier with more risk that it might not work and a more difficult, but higher confidence solution that requires that you edit the Registry. the easier one is to download SmitfraudFix and save it to your desktop. Start in Safe Mode and run it, Selecting Option #2 and answering Y to Do you want to clean the registry. You might have to run it more than once. the more complex choice would be performing the manual removal instructions a good precaution is to create a Restore Point in System Restore (START/ACCESSORIES/SYSTEM TOOLS/SYSTEM RESTORE) before messing with the Registry If you get stuck, IM me
John from Riverside Posted April 18, 2008 Author Posted April 18, 2008 yeah, I thought maybe that was the case, but since you were pretty confident that it was removed, I took the corrupted windows path... there's two choices, one easier with more risk that it might not work and a more difficult, but higher confidence solution that requires that you edit the Registry. the easier one is to download SmitfraudFix and save it to your desktop. Start in Safe Mode and run it, Selecting Option #2 and answering Y to Do you want to clean the registry. You might have to run it more than once. the more complex choice would be performing the manual removal instructions a good precaution is to create a Restore Point in System Restore (START/ACCESSORIES/SYSTEM TOOLS/SYSTEM RESTORE) before messing with the Registry If you get stuck, IM me Faking, Thanks for the info I will run this....question. Do you think this my be the reason why my internet radio does not work?
In-A-Gadda-Levitre Posted April 18, 2008 Posted April 18, 2008 Faking, Thanks for the info I will run this....question. Do you think this my be the reason why my internet radio does not work? yes, based on the limited info I have. here's a possible explanation...the virus is trying to redirect or hijack your computer in order to navigate to websites of its own choosing. Since you crippled it with Spybot and others, it cannot complete the hijacking and hangs in the process By the way, a lot of what the Netbooster virus does is to issue fake malware messages in order to get you to download its fake antispy programs, so how much actual junk you have isn't known until you clean out the virus. You have to remove all traces of it in the windows registry in order to stop the malware warnings and hijacking.
John from Riverside Posted April 18, 2008 Author Posted April 18, 2008 I went into safe mode and ran the smithfraud program several times. Now I am not getting any messages....but my internet radio still does not work. The icon for it opens up but it just hangs and does not complete. Also another question. My job gave me spysweeper to run on my computer and I ran it....is that a good program?
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