I’m sorry to post a virus Q, but I have scanned my computer with everything I can throw at it. Adaware, SpybotSD, Panda scan and CounterSpy and I’ve still got this stupid virus that takes away letters on most internet pages with print. What can I use to detect this thing. Someone please help me with this, it’s really starting to get to me.
And here I thought it was going to be about /un|)0, which I have successfully defeated only yesterday. I did it with the help of the Geek Squad. If no one here can help, I suggest you escalate it there.
Do any of the scanners you have used detect the virus? If not how do you know it is a virus, and not just a bug/corruption of your browser? If you can detect, but not clean it what is it called? If not have you tried reinstalling your browser? I haven’t heard about a virus that removes letters(of course I haven’t been keeping up with virus/security stuff like I used to).
-Otanx
Well, to be honest, I *don't* know it is a virus. But the reason I believe it is, is because the letters selected to to not appear on my screen display or rather do not display in both FireFox & IE. For instance my Hotmail account reads " ot i ".
All capital “H’s” are gone, all capital “V’s” are gone. No “&” are visible. And things that use tabs such as Hotmail in regards “my account” “my email” “preferences” etc…they don’t even show up! It you cut and paste words that look incomplete into,say a search box then the words shows up in full. So you see something is causing this to make the user believe the information is missing.
No spyware would have done this, it’s got to be a virus of some kind in my theory just because the shoe fits. Malware, wouldn’t play games with my machine; it would destroy it and Trojans are best left undetected so it wouldn’t go about giving itself away like this. Viruses would deal out the kind mediocre harm that has befallen my computer. And to answer the $500,000 dollar Q… no, it’s not being detected. That is why I asked what I could use, since I’ve tried all the programs listed in my OP and have had no luck thus far. :smack:
You should post your operating system.
You should go to internet Options and disable executions of Java and Active X. Under Security change your default for internet access to high security.
Sounds like a corrupted font problem to me. (But then I’m a Mac user. Corrupted fonts is something we see sometimes)
I’m using Windows ME. 
Please follow these instructions and report back.
You can always try an online virus scan, as most of those programs you listed are for spyware and not viruses. Trend Micro has a free online virus scan ast www.antivirus.com. Reboot your system into safe mode with networking for the most complete and effective virus scan.
Thanks everyone for coming to my aid. Being that my computer went down the first time due to an ActiveX vunerability, I was really paranoid about restarting my machine. I was just about to follow the “corrupt font instructions” when my searching online brought me to some freeware called “ccleaner” short for crap cleaner, lol. I was really desperate so I selected everything (since the font was not showing up at all for me to read what I was checking off) and crossed my fingers, this program seems to dump all your cache files, temporary internet files, cookies etc… most anything related to caching of some kind. I also independently dumped whatever Java files accumulated for me under the java control in the control panel. Btw, there was a font selection in this program so alterego could still be right.
Later, I was still certain that I had something so I decided to start backing-up my MP3 files (since I have many GB of these) and I unfortunately queued up too many I guess, (my DVD-RW disc holds 4.7 GB) I had a little over 1GB queued-up when I got the blue screen of death and had to restart (which I had to wonder if it would even restart).
That said everything restarted fine and when I looked at my email account it was back to normal, well almost… apparently I played with the Javascript settings too and now Firefox won’t let me into my email without cookies (I didn’t know I messed with these, but maybe ccleaner did) I was able to “reset to default settings” in IE and see my mail account, but with FF, I’m still tinkering; the cookies options under the Tools main menu don’t seem to be what I need… anyway, I’m just happy it was only a false alarm. I guess I’ll just continue backing things up now… heh… thanks again all