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kielee6166 · 06-28-2009, 06:41 PM

A friend of mine had a computer infected about three days ago, and I've been taking a look at it for a couple hours now. It seems pretty severe. Safe mode has been disabled, most programs (MBAM, IE, and pretty much everything else I've tried) do not work, there are multiple incidences of "conime.exe" running and keeping the CPU running at nearly 100%, and there are IE popups and "Bad Image" popups galore. I've been able to get online by using favorites links on windows explorer. However, DDS will not run - it gives that security warning, and when i click "run" it shows up in Task Manager but nothing actually happens. I will attempt GMER shortly after, but I wanted to get this out first since I'm not sure how much longer internet will work on this machine. Thanks in advance.

06-28-2009, 06:41 PM	#1 (permalink)
kielee6166 Registered User Join Date: Jun 2009 Posts: 16 OS: XP	Bad case of infection, disables most programs A friend of mine had a computer infected about three days ago, and I've been taking a look at it for a couple hours now. It seems pretty severe. Safe mode has been disabled, most programs (MBAM, IE, and pretty much everything else I've tried) do not work, there are multiple incidences of "conime.exe" running and keeping the CPU running at nearly 100%, and there are IE popups and "Bad Image" popups galore. I've been able to get online by using favorites links on windows explorer. However, DDS will not run - it gives that security warning, and when i click "run" it shows up in Task Manager but nothing actually happens. I will attempt GMER shortly after, but I wanted to get this out first since I'm not sure how much longer internet will work on this machine. Thanks in advance.