mimieb
2009-07-17, 18:26
I believe I have gotten some sort of virus on my machine I tried to view a video in windows media player and it came up with a window that said I needed the license so I did what most ppl do and I just clicked ok, and then it installed something called omegavid.exe on my machine. I was still unable to view the video in fact it disconnected me from my msn messenger and I was unable to use mozilla or any other browser afterwards as it redirects me to a page that says address not found. However it left me connected to skype for some reason.
I then went into my program files and noticed that this omegavid only had an uninstall file listed in it's folder so I used it and uninstalled this thing because I dont like to have programs I am unfamiliar with on my machine.
After numerous attempts I was and still am unable to run spybot, when I click on it, it shows the hourglass as if it's loading and then it dissapears and spybot does not come up however it is listed in my running processes. I am unable to go to any websites what so ever so I cannot download hijackthis or anything else for that matter. Rebooting did not help this at all. I was able to run avg in safe mode however it really didn't find anything.
I would really like to keep the reformatting of my machine as a last resort because I have a terrabyte drive and alot of stuff on it. Any help or suggestions I can get would be greatly appreciated.
I then went into my program files and noticed that this omegavid only had an uninstall file listed in it's folder so I used it and uninstalled this thing because I dont like to have programs I am unfamiliar with on my machine.
After numerous attempts I was and still am unable to run spybot, when I click on it, it shows the hourglass as if it's loading and then it dissapears and spybot does not come up however it is listed in my running processes. I am unable to go to any websites what so ever so I cannot download hijackthis or anything else for that matter. Rebooting did not help this at all. I was able to run avg in safe mode however it really didn't find anything.
I would really like to keep the reformatting of my machine as a last resort because I have a terrabyte drive and alot of stuff on it. Any help or suggestions I can get would be greatly appreciated.