Viruses Got Me – Remove Your Toolbars
December 14th, 2007 | 
Author: If you’re a regular follower of this blog — first, many thanks!, and second — you’ve probably wondered why no posts this week. I got hit by a virus — two in fact — badly. Long story short. I’m surfing, I go to a seemingly normal web page, wham, my anti-virus goes off. Eventually this trojan (BHO.CVX) locks out Window’s restore capabilities, then later disables my ability to log on the web for two days. Three days later and most of it cleared out and boom, a second “time bomb” virus (Packed.Morphine.d) planted by the first one goes off, and it’s harder to kill then the first was. How did it get in? Through Google’s toolbar. You see, browser toolbars leave coding holes that make it easy for viruses to attack you. That said, Google still touts theirs. I say, do not install any toolbar and if you have any installed: remove them! You’ve been warned.
That said, I make no promises but I will definitely try to make up for this week by posting a recipe or article each day for the next week to catch up. Thanks.
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Help – also got the virus and packed morphine how did you get rid of it??
Keith, I did the following:
- Used AVG which found it and told me the file name
- Used Hijack This which confirmed things.
- Used Kill Box to kill the file.
All the programs are free and can be found off of a search.
Oh and when you find the file, see if there isn’t another one with the same name and a .bak extension. If so, use KillBox on that too.
Good luck!
nothing to do with cooking but this is the help i have been looking for.
thanks to all for posting the problem and solution.
keep the fires buring. thx. mike
Appreciate the thanks, Mike! Glad to help.
Tell your cooking friends about this site, and I’m repaid.