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[cem_devecioglu]

Interesting. I picked up that 2009 Anti-Virus malware last weekend.
I was doing a search for a driver and clicked on a link thrown up
by Windows 'Live Search.' I got a pop-up, similar to an AVG anti virus
screen, and it started to pretend to search my computer and tell me
that I had 59 virus/malware/trojan etc.. on my computer.

I pulled the internet connection from the cable modem as soon as
I saw it, but it continued doing the pretend search and exhorting me
to download it's anti-virus program.

My  genuine AVG program belatedly picked it up and popped it into
quarantine. I emptied the quarantine and deleted all temporary
internet files, where it had loaded itself.

I've not had any more problems, so far, but reading the informed
replies on this thread, it would seem that there is a possibility that
it may have 'transmogrified'   itself and be sitting somewhere else,
waiting to have another pop at me.

Would it be worth formatting drive C and reinstalling? I've done this
several times on computers before, so it doesn't hold any qualms
for me. I have the genuine discs/ drivers/ product keys/ program
discs/ recovery discs etc..

if its working OK , dont touch

[bighed]

I had antivirus 2009 hit me last week.   Luckily my mate has his own pc business. 2 days later he had fully wiped and rebooted or whatever you call it my pc. he did try and get rid of it first but as said it kept popping up as different things  

[Debs.]

Warning!: Off at a tangent post......

Singular: Virus....
Plural: Virii....

......but which is the plural possessive?

Virus`s, Virii`s.....or.....?

....grammarians, please step forward!

[Nickbat]

Warning!: Off at a tangent post......

Singular: Virus....
Plural: Virii....

......but which is the plural possessive?

Virus`s, Virii`s.....or.....?

....grammarians, please step forward!

Plural of virus is viruses  

[Debs.]

Warning!: Off at a tangent post......

Singular: Virus....
Plural: Virii....

......but which is the plural possessive?

Virus`s, Virii`s.....or.....?

....grammarians, please step forward!

Plural of virus is viruses  

Would that make the plural possessive; "Viruses`s" then? :-/

[Nickbat]

Debs, it would be viruses'.

So it would appear in the following sentence:

"The common cold and influenza are both caused by similar viruses. However, studying the viruses' behaviour, one can identify marked differences in their potency...."  

[TheBoy]

I have been collecting serials and disks ready for a rebuild, (new MB CPU HDDs keep DVD drive FDD case).

THis AV2000 or whatever I was attacked in the last week and AVG7 stopped it dead

remember, your oem xp is NOT transferrable (legally)

[Debs.]

Debs, it would be viruses'.

So it would appear in the following sentence:

"The common cold and influenza are both caused by similar viruses. However, studying the viruses' behaviour, one can identify marked differences in their potency...."  

  Thanks Nickbat; `funny old language isn`t it!

[Martin_1962]

I have been collecting serials and disks ready for a rebuild, (new MB CPU HDDs keep DVD drive FDD case).

THis AV2000 or whatever I was attacked in the last week and AVG7 stopped it dead

remember, your oem xp is NOT transferrable (legally)

I am NOT transferring - same case, DVD and FDD

[TheBoy]

I have been collecting serials and disks ready for a rebuild, (new MB CPU HDDs keep DVD drive FDD case).

THis AV2000 or whatever I was attacked in the last week and AVG7 stopped it dead

remember, your oem xp is NOT transferrable (legally)

I am NOT transferring - same case, DVD and FDD

Thats a transfer - its a significantly different system.

It may be 50:50 if it activates again, but the licence for OEMs is quite clear  

[Martin_1962]

I have been collecting serials and disks ready for a rebuild, (new MB CPU HDDs keep DVD drive FDD case).

THis AV2000 or whatever I was attacked in the last week and AVG7 stopped it dead

remember, your oem xp is NOT transferrable (legally)

I am NOT transferring - same case, DVD and FDD

Thats a transfer - its a significantly different system.

It may be 50:50 if it activates again, but the licence for OEMs is quite clear  

Well I have choices, reuse licence, sell me XP Pro, or Linux, rather not do the last one, I run some non Vistable software (CA-Clipper in VGA graphics mode)

[bob.dent]

I've had this tinker of malware and it is nasty. You can download a programme called Malwarebytes anti-malware for free and it does sort it out.

[TheBoy]

I have been collecting serials and disks ready for a rebuild, (new MB CPU HDDs keep DVD drive FDD case).

THis AV2000 or whatever I was attacked in the last week and AVG7 stopped it dead

remember, your oem xp is NOT transferrable (legally)

I am NOT transferring - same case, DVD and FDD

Thats a transfer - its a significantly different system.

It may be 50:50 if it activates again, but the licence for OEMs is quite clear  

Well I have choices, reuse licence, sell me XP Pro, or Linux, rather not do the last one, I run some non Vistable software (CA-Clipper in VGA graphics mode)

Legally, you cannot reuse.  I don't think its available in retail any more, I believe its still available in OEM chain.

I'm surprised that your software will run under Linux but not Windows  :-/.  Have you tried it under Vista compatibility mode?  There is very little app software I have come across that doesn't.

Vista will likely run better than XP on decent Core2 hardware.

[TheBoy]

I've had this tinker of malware and it is nasty. You can download a programme called Malwarebytes anti-malware for free and it does sort it out.

Their are hundreds of 'clean up' tools for this one. If you find one that works, all good.  I've yet to find one that is reliable and covers more than 1 of the hundreds of variants of this piece of nasty

[Martin_1962]

I have been collecting serials and disks ready for a rebuild, (new MB CPU HDDs keep DVD drive FDD case).

THis AV2000 or whatever I was attacked in the last week and AVG7 stopped it dead

remember, your oem xp is NOT transferrable (legally)

I am NOT transferring - same case, DVD and FDD

Thats a transfer - its a significantly different system.

It may be 50:50 if it activates again, but the licence for OEMs is quite clear  

Well I have choices, reuse licence, sell me XP Pro, or Linux, rather not do the last one, I run some non Vistable software (CA-Clipper in VGA graphics mode)

Legally, you cannot reuse.  I don't think its available in retail any more, I believe its still available in OEM chain.

I'm surprised that your software will run under Linux but not Windows  :-/.  Have you tried it under Vista compatibility mode?  There is very little app software I have come across that doesn't.

Vista will likely run better than XP on decent Core2 hardware.

If I can't run my software might as well have a free O/S