another freaking virus

[dr_manhattan]

ok i'm upset now....

i have a messenger popup virus on my system.... seems to be a trojen in the file csrss.exe in WINNT/System32

the first message tells me it's a good idea to go to www.blockthesepopups.com to solve the problem.....

well i'm stuck i dunno what to do, any ideas?

any help would be greatly appreciated...

cheers

andy

[Crispin]

Well, what antivirus are you running?

[dr_manhattan]

norton 2004...didn;t pick up anything....

i've followed the advice here:

http://www.stopmessengerspam.com/

for Win2000 and it seems to have helped.....

fingers crossed..... computer viruses and crap football refs are the only things on the planet which make me mad [/img]

[demon9k]

Is it an advert that pops up in a grey box? If so there is a really simple way to stop that, if it is what I think it is.

[chevkoch]

Norton tends to overlook a lot of viruses. Get the great AVG virusscan for free here:

http://www.grisoft.com/us/us_dwnl_free.php

There are free updates too. I've been using it for some time and it came to the rescue whenever I needed it. My friend's Norton didn't detect anything when he had PC woes, AVG helped him out too. I can recommend it highly.

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[MartyG]

If it's the old messenger message box thing it's not a virus, it's an exploit.

You have to turn the Messenger service off in services in control panel. Set the start up option to disabled, then you won't see them anymore.

IMO the best anti virus software by a mile is Sophos.

Regards
Marty

[wod]

yep thats the messenger exploit in windows, turn it off in services and you'll have no problems

[Crispin]

Sophos can cause problems. Such as freezing at the control panel and other such things. Mind you Norton is equally dumb. After downloading half a gig of Far Cry, the last thing I want it to do is to scan the whole file before the thing can be properly written to disk.

More nail-biting than the game itself. Will it cock up my system and hang? Won't it?

[dr_manhattan]

yep thats the messenger exploit in windows, turn it off in services and you'll have no problems

yeah cheers that's what i did...ta guys

regards

andy