but viruses and technology are advancing faster than I can keep up with)... until yesterday, this is my 2nd virus, first one was back in 1996:) As I was browsing the Net I can only assume a website must have installed something without my consent and I got the system warning about Win32.Netsky.Q, same as the photo. I obviously didn't think and clicked protect... I can only assume this was the virus in disguise. Straight away SpyBot told me a new registry was trying to get added something to do with windpipe of course I clicked decline and AVG told me something about Netsky found and it cleaned it but a MSN popup box appeared asking me to log into MSN, kept cancelling and about 10 seconds later my system Shut Down, I got a warning from Word stating that I had to save my file which I didn't... and lost my work but never mind that. On Reboot I was warned by SpyBot that this program was trying to access my Registry, the culprit was in a folder called Google inside my Documents and Settings under Application Data, I've used Unlocker to delete the files as they were in use and though that's that since the Google folder was now gone... but nooo, upon Reboot I was asked again about a registry editing with windpipe so of course I declined and looked into the registry and deleted the record, also as soon as I connect to the NET I get the MSN login popup. The system decided to shut down... This seemed to me like the Google folder was never deleted, as I couldn't see it I decided to take the HDD out stick it into my other PC and have a look, did that and backed up some of the files in Application Data which I needed and deleted the folder, at this point I got an error about deleting it so instead I just renamed it TODELETE, I scanned the whole HDD using the Windows Defender, AVG... but nothing, all files looked OK. HDD back into old system boot up no more warnings so I decide to do a scan with SpyBot, got a warning about some registry stuff and not long after System Shutdown:(, I reboot and decide to Delete the TODELETE folder, error doing so and again I used Unlocker to delete it and it did (maybe I should have stopped using Unlocker). So now that folder is gone... even used the SpyBot shredder.Now you might ask me why I didn't go in SafeMode, well it seems I cannot, as soon as I get past the 2 YES questions, to load something.sys and another system file it hangs and never goes in SafeMode so that's out the question. So instead I use the Windows Minimal boot option, I assumed it was close to SafeMode, I start doing a scan with MBAM and all seems OK but System Shutdown again... so now every time I do a scan using any software the system will simply Shut Down, NOT Reboot, Shut Down. Time wise it seems to be random... or it could be as soon as the scanner gets to that specific file... it also happened by doing a registry search in less then 2 minutes after reboot, whilst scanning with MBAM it took about 20 minutes before it shut down... seems all random to me.
Maybe the virus is gone but something was left behind to trigger this shutdown?? anyone know where such a command would be found? can it be a rootkit hiding the program? is Netsky associated with shudowns or is this another virus?
Any help is much appreciated...
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