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Can A Virus Make Your Computer Function Differently?

Mitchell

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On Friday night, during my computer's weekly virus scan, the Norton Anti Virus program I have detected and removed two trojan horse viruses from the computer. While the computer seems to be functioning okay by itself, I have noticed that since the viruses were detected, I am not able to copy or send images in, or two, e-mails on my computer. Would the viruses detected, even though they were removed, cause this problem? Does anyone know anything about such an instance. Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks


Mitch
 
last summer my computer got a major virus..and although norton thought it had detected it..i had the same problem you have..i couldn't send or delete emails..and at times my computer acted all freaky...started flashing and doing strange things...finally my husband had to reformat the whole computer..basically start from scratch..reinstall norton and set up everything again..now i run my ad aware everyday..and norton twice a week if not more..and also i am very wary now about clicking on links...
 
Thanks, Izzy, sorry to hear you had that problem. I can send and delete emails. My problem is with pictures. I cant copy a picture into my picture files, or send a picture in an email. I hope I dont have to reformat this thing, because I am not computer savvy.
Anyhow, thanks for the reply. Take care.

Mitch
 
ad-aware

yes, ad-aware SE is the greatest software ever made. Thank you Lavasoft.
get that and run it everytime you surf the web and you will be fine

-mtlhd
 
I've seen a trojan integrate itself so that windows thought it was missing required files whenever it tried to run an exe. If Norton mis-IDed the virus, there's a chance it didn't get the whole thing, or didn't fix all the damage. Trojans are notoriously hard to detect, most virus scanners won't pick up a trojan at all when it's attached to a file, and they're hard to detect and remove even after they install.

Sometimes Norton will put out specified scan and removal tools for a virus or trojan, and they should have manual removal instructions. If you can't find anything on Norton, you can try punching the name of the trojans into Google.

Norton has probably disabled any payload associated with the viruses, so the rest should just be repair. You'll probably have to follow the manual removal/repair options and hope that fixes it. The process will probably have you editing the registry, so I'd recommend a full backup before proceeding with it. Good luck.

There's also a chance this wasn't caused by the viruses, and is just a corruption of windows that occurred some other way. If this is the case, I'm not sure how to repair it. I usually end up re-installing windows every year; the OS slowly gets corrupted both by my trial and error programming, editing of the registry, etc. and by general use.
 
Thanks for the advice. I'll have to look into all this.

Mitch
 
Actually, I think my computer is okay. The problem I had of copying the one picture, may have just been that one particular picture, as I have tried copying other pictures in the last day or so, and they have managed to copy. My computer seems to be functioning okay, so I guess I'll wait until my next virus scan, which occurs this Friday night, to see what the Norton comes up with, and see if the problem is gone, or not.
To all who posted in this thread, thanks for the advice and feedback.

Mitch
 
Adaware makes my comp restart everytime i use it i dont know why so i dont use it anymore :shock:
 
Thanks, Bel. I'll have to wait for my comp to do its virus scan this Friday at 8pm Eastern, to see where I'm at, and whether or not the virus is gone. Right now it seems to be functioning more slowly than usual, but I'll see where it goes from here.

Mitch
 
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