'Brontok' waylays my pc
SPENT the whole day resurrecting my PC, no thanks to the Brontok computer worm.
Since last night after attending (and proxying for Doc Butch Borja, our city health officer, who's supposed to be one of the ninongs) the wedding of my cousin Jason, I noticed all my USB flash drive folders already replicating executables. Then my always-up-to-date AVG antivirus software was decimated. Checking the web for solutions, I discovered and ran this Brontok remover, but it was all for naught -- batutilan an hinayupak na virus!
When I brought the machine to EDP, we tried other approaches -- booting from a Windows 98 command prompt (could not read my infected hard drive), booting from my UBS flash drive (did not work), and using Bart PE (did not work either).
That left us no other choice but to implement the old fashioned solution: reformatting my hard drive to extinguish Brontok to oblivion. Fortunately, it was partioned so it involved only transferring my data files to my Drive D, reformating C, reinstalling a new OS, reinstalling most of my applications, and upgrading my antivirus to NOD32 Control Center.
As I write this, my PC is now faster and I think I'm back to 75% of its original functionality. And I hope that's the last encounter I will have with Brontok the batutilan.:)
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Kaya mag-Linux ka na, Kuya Willy!
Give me your mailing address and I'll send you an Ubuntu CD.
TO ALL
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We cannot afford to be indifferent now if we want meaningful change. Otherwise we only have ourselves to blame. BUT TOGETHER WE CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE.
Switch to the Mac, na Willy. And the Macs are stylish pa!
download the free antivir software at(http://www.avira.com/en/pages/index.php) and use this to clean this brontok virus. No need to reformat the hdd if you have this virus cleaner. AVG really is helpless with brontok as per our experience in the office. Try from time to time to use other virus cleaner (although it mean de-installing the previous virus cleaner)... de-install/install other virus cleaner takes less time than reformatting the hdd and installing all other softwares.
Brontok? That's an old one. Been battling the worms in my diskettes back in college. So its upgraded version defeats AVG, huh.
Willy, why not try AVAST anti-virus? Yan yung pumatay ng lahat ng mga virus sa laptop ko. Otherwise, Ms. Maryanne is right. Go for Mac! Always wanted to have one but I am still trying to put the budget in order. Hehehe Good luck!
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AVIRA works against brontok, willy. last september i thrice formatted my laptop because of brontok. i literally wept, after losing all the graphic softwares i had in my laptop. it made me reflect on switching to mac really. soon.
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