• I think I might have a virus
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I was browsing and suddenly a download window came up for a file I didn't recognize, I clicked the "cancel" button and Firefox just closed. Then the Windows firewall popped up and said that it was blocking Explorer.exe. Now I can't open the System Restore program, and Firefox is auto-blocking a shitload of cookies. I don't want to turn my computer off because that's usually how I lose my computer to viruses.
[QUOTE=fear me;23938746]I was browsing and suddenly a download window came up for a file I didn't recognize, I clicked the "cancel" button and Firefox just closed. Then the Windows firewall popped up and said that it was blocking Explorer.exe. Now I can't open the System Restore program, and Firefox is auto-blocking a shitload of cookies. I don't want to turn my computer off because that's usually how I lose my computer to viruses.[/QUOTE] Run a virus scan?
If you do get rid of this, download Adblock plus and Noscript, its ussally malicious ads and scripts that will do this to you.
Already have both. False alarm, all it seems to have done is randomly rearranged my desktop icons and made it impossible for me to disallow cookies. So far, anyways. Seriously, did the creator just make this because he thought it would be good for a laugh?
You're lucky then, I miss the days when viruses where just for fun. Now its all about money. :sigh:
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