Virus madness
Virus madness on Windows XP
Frustrating session, trying to remove virus and trojan software from a heavily infected notebook computer running Windows XP. I have a picture of my old IBM R30 thinkpad computer here. This problem was causing the owner some grief with a flood of outbound e-mail each time they connected to the Internet.
Thankfully Symantic was able to stop .. but only to a point. Check out the picture. This image is not a special effect or background picture but an overload of hundreds of warning messages that needed to be individually closed. The barrage of alert messages prevented any meaningful use of the computer by the owner. This was only part of the problem with other viruses and trojan software lurking on the laptop. You can see a portion on this r30-virus series of screenshots that I took.
I managed to clean up the laptop with Spybot and some other tools. Afterwards I replaced Internet Explorer with Firefox, deleted Outlook and installed Thunderbird and Open Office. Lastly I educated the laptop owner about not opening odd attachments or links on web popups. Next step was to install Xubuntu.
So far the advice and action seems to have worked.