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saloums7
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Reformatting... Back up your files on a hard drive and format that hard drive and then re-install windows. PM me if you need more help 
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lacrimosaangel
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As I said in the shout - this is Classic Pretty Park Virus. It attaches to a download (commonly a toolbar like sweetim etc or when patching programs/hacked programs/torrents etc) and infects your dll registry keys, removing one or more file type associations. if you follow this guide, it should restore this for you
http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/233243-default-file-type-associations-restore.html Download ONLY the zip file for the extension that is missing and let it work ALL the way through
Good luck ^_^ |
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lacrimosaangel
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Reformatting... Back up your files on a hard drive and format that hard drive and then re-install windows. PM me if you need more help
saloums7
That's a LITTLE extreme for removed file extention association O_o |
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bobdaul
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As I said in the shout - this is Classic Pretty Park Virus. It attaches to a download (commonly a toolbar like sweetim etc or when patching programs/hacked programs/torrents etc) and infects your dll registry keys, removing one or more file type associations.
lacrimosaangel
thank u soooooo much the funny thing the toolbar that gaveme this was frome another gpt site so it is proof that all are evil cept p2s thanks again |
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lacrimosaangel
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haha you shouldn't download without first checking to see if it's secure - if you have a good anti-virus, it should scan ALL downloads before they reach your machine.. Also - this is why we recommend sandboxie!! Just be cautious with your downloading and you'll be fine- I had the pretty park virus last year and luckily while being a Nasty piece of work, it's easily corrected, providing your virus scanner catches it before it infects ALL your dlls. The pretty park activates when your virus program removes it - so basically, it sits idle on your machine and runs itself when deleted - Nasty huh?! |
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saloums7
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thank u soooooo much the funny thing the toolbar that gaveme this was frome another gpt site so it is proof that all are evil cept p2s
thanks again bobdaul It's faster for me than trying to fix it xD and it's simpler since my hard drive is split in 2 partitions, when i have a problem I install the OS on the clean partition and just copy my files from old install scanning each file with my AV
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lacrimosaangel
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It's faster for me than trying to fix it xD and it's simpler since my hard drive is split in 2 partitions, when i have a problem I install the OS on the clean partition and just copy my files from old install scanning each file with my AV
saloums7
LOL! so you're saying it takes less than 5 minutes for you to reformat and reinstalling OS ?! I highly doubt that
and that doens't get rid of the problem entirely if the virus attacks both partitions.
With SOME viruses- if they attack the dll files (like the Pretty park) it can actually do more harm than good if you reload the OS as you're just re-deleting the core problem and not fixing it - why spend ages reinstalling it if you can just replace the dll file that was missing? |
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saloums7
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LOL! so you're saying it takes less than 5 minutes for you to reformat and reinstalling OS ?! I highly doubt thatand that doens't get rid of the problem entirely if the virus attacks both partitions.
With SOME viruses- if they attack the dll files (like the Pretty park) it can actually do more harm than good if you reload the OS as you're just re-deleting the core problem and not fixing it - why spend ages reinstalling it if you can just replace the dll file that was missing? lacrimosaangel ok you got a point there
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