Postby menopausi » Tue Apr 20, 2004 2:21 am
Trend Micro is the anti-virus installed on my computer. I followed your links and followed Trend's instructions to go to the registry and delete the entries there that the virus would leave. There weren't any. Trend has cleaned it every time it tried to infect it. Trend runs a complete check every morning at 8:00. I have the newest version of mIRC. I un and reinstalled about 2 weeks before this started. I had a problem getting logged on to irc when I first started. A friend talked with an op and he asked if I had my firewall on. I did. When I turned it off, I could log on with no problem. My computer started acting up and mIRC did too, so I did some troubleshooting and did some un and reinstalling of a few programs. mIRC was one of them. I had Trend on my computer at the time. About 2 weeks later, a week after this guy got mad at me, this trojan/virus starts showing up on my computer. It hasn't infected my computer yet, thank God and trend, but I'm going to try the firewall again and see what happens. I couldn't get it to work with it before, but I haven't tried it since I reinstalled it. Thanks! I feel better knowing its not in my registry, and that Trend is on top of things. I tried downloading the HydraIRC and got a window that said it was a corrupted copy being downloaded, so I stopped it. If I uninstall mIRC again, how do I make sur all traces of it are gone? I have the Registry Mechanic I can run. If I go into the registry much, it really will be messed up! LOL I can follow directions, but going in and trying to find it myself.....Any way to find out where its coming from? Thanks! menopausin
I don't suffer from insanity, I love every minute of it!
Every time I log onto mIRC, I get the virus in the subject line. It never fails. There was a guy got mad at me because I didn't react to his flirting except to ask him nicely to stop, then told him. I asked an op to see if he could do something, so he watched him and banned him. Now, I get a virus every time I log on. I was told by an op that he and his 'girlfriend' have 'hacking abilities'. I don't have a problem with it unless I log onto IRC and it didn't start until all that happened. In 27 days it was cleaned from my machine 45 times. A few days it was cleaned 3 and 4 times. Nobody else has had a problem with it. It seems its just me. I tried going from EFnet to DALnet to see if it did it there, and it did. Just not as many times as in EFnet. I guess what I'm asking, in a round about way, are there ways to target one individual with a virus and is there any way to find out who/where/how its coming from. I was told that the 'girlfriend' did, in fact, send a virus to another woman and has threatened to 'melt down' others' pc's. I'm just getting tired of it. If I don't get on mIRC, I don't get it. But I love mIRC and don't like the idea of not 'seeing' my friends and having fun. Any ideas? Anything would be greatly appreciated. Pardon the typos. I'm new at this and I'm still learning to operate my computer. There's GOT to be a way to find out where it's coming from. Thanks for ANY help. menopausin 
Wel, I've tried most everything suggested here and elsewhere, also, and even upgraded my hard drive. I've run scan after scan after scan and there's nothing in there. I did have a couple of the big ones get in when it crashed once and while I was changing out disks. And Norton was on when it hit the last time. But the IRC virus isn't in there. It only tries to infect me while I'm on mIRC. My anti virus catches and cleans it, but it gets aggravating seeing it pop up and I'm just there to have fun. I had re down;oaded my trend Micro anti virus and put my registration # in and two days later got an email that my reg # was pirated. I brought up the screen, and the number I put in there had been changed along with how I registered my name. I don't know what's going on, but something's fishy. I bought my anti virus online from the company, I didn't need a pirated reg #. There's several things that has happened that's fishy, but I won't keep on. I'll just go play trivia and let my anti virus catch and clean it like one of the techs said he did. And If anyone can help me unravel this mess, thanks in advance. menopausi
