I've borrowed my nephew's laptop and managed to destroy it, Ooooop's, can you help?

debitcardmayhem

angelaloveschocolate wrote: »

Hey you guys, hope you hav'nt left me..

I'm running TDSSkiller and its asking me that for the app to run properly it is recommending to extract all files, should I do this or go straight to 'run'?

I would imagine they were stroking their egos , but I notice they have replied now :A

GunJack

debitcardmayhem wrote: »

I would imagine they were stroking their egos , but I notice they have replied now :A

better than stroking :cough: "other things" whilst sat in front of a computer :rotfl:

angelaloveschocolate

Ok, now doing the avg, tdss done and saved.

And I dont care what you're stroking 'cos this is workingh for me!!!

GunJack

stick with it angela

gotta go bed now 05:10 hrs start in the morning will check back to see how you've got on...

angelaloveschocolate

Managed to get almost everything done. Just the need to switch off/on the system restore, but that can wait until tomorrow. Too tired now!

Thank you all so much. After all your help there is only one picture missing and thats the one that was set as the desktop background. So I think you'll agree thats a major turnaround.

So delighted with your help. Thanks and goodnight:)

waddler_8

Bump the topic tomorrow if you have any more problems.

GunJack

angelaloveschocolate wrote: »

After all your help there is only one picture missing and thats the one that was set as the desktop background.

It's probably still there, exactly where it was saved on the pc before. All you'll need to do is find it and then right-click on it and Set it as wallpaper Hope you find it soon

angelaloveschocolate

Final update, just signed in and immediately found the lost wallpaper pic. System restore switched off and now back on again. So, a big sigh of relief, I'm giving this laptop back to my nephew tonight. And, you know what? I think its actually in better shape than when I got it. Thanks again everyone who helped.

Hey, Gunjack you changed that signature yet? LOL

Thanks all xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

waddler_8

Tell your nephew to scan at secunia and update any vulnerable software, removing the older versions. Exploiting insecure versions of software is how a lot of this kind of malware gets installed in the first place.

Adobe Reader & Flash, Java RE etc are common culprits, as well as windows itself.

http://blogs.technet.com/b/security/archive/2011/11/28/millions-of-java-exploit-attempts-the-importance-of-keeping-all-software-up-to-date.aspx

http://blogs.technet.com/b/mmpc/archive/2010/10/18/have-you-checked-the-java.aspx

http://secunia.com/vulnerability_scanning/online/

GunJack

ang, glad you're sorted finally, and more good advice from waddler there

and no, I ain't changing my sig, think my current one is serving me well and I ain't that big-headed