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Not About Smoking~~About A Very Difficult Virus To Remove From Your Windows Computer

JonesCarpeDiem
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‎12-27-2012 08:54 AM

PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT

I got a virus Christmas Eve day that would have been impossible to remove without a second computer and 7 hours of research and work to remove it..

All of you with windows operating system.

See if you have Windows Defender  on your computer and update it. NOW (Windows Defender Is Free)

Also, get a usb flash drive (500mb should be enough) and download windows defender offline (this is a different program and runs from a usb drive) you cannot get to windows defender once the virus is in your pc. Install Windows Defender Offline on that usb drive OR BURN TO A BLANK CD and keep it for the future.

The virus was unable to be removed by Norton, Malwarebytes or Glary Utilities.

The virus was called the FBI Green Dot Moneypack Virus and when  the computer finishes loading the startup programs the virus takes over the entire screen so you can not get out of it. They want $300 to give you the unlock code. Listen, if you are doing something illegal, the FBI isn't going to take a payoff to excuse you. That's what tipped me off. So I got on my netbook and started googling.

You have to boot to safe mode with networking to even attempt removing it.

Another Option

If your computer has system restore and is running well, make a restore point. NOW

I am somewhat computer savvy and this is the worst thing I have ever seen.

Plan ahead like you plan a quit.

If you have any questions about this pm me.

dale

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Hello, My name is Dale. I was quit 18 months before joining this site and had participated on another site during that time. I learned a lot there and brought it with me. I joined this site the first week of August 2008. I didn't pressure myself to quit. HOW I QUIT I didn't count, I didn't deny myself to get started. When I considered quitting (at a friends request to influence his brother to quit), I simply told myself to wait a little longer. No denial, nothing painful. After 4 weeks I was down to 5 cigarettes from a pack a day. The strength came from proving to myself, I didn't need to smoke because I normally would have smoked. Simple yes? I bought the patch. I forgot to put one on on the 4th day. I needed it the next day but the following week I forgot two days in a row I put one in my wallet with a promise to myself that I would slap it on and wait an hour rather than smoke. It rode in my wallet my first year.There's nothing keeping any of you from doing this. It doesn't cost a dime. This is about unlearning something you've done for a long time. The nicotine isn't the hard part. Disconnecting from the psychological pull, the memories and connected emotions is. :-) Time is the healer.