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    Help with G73s

    Discussion in 'ASUS Gaming Notebook Forum' started by monkey10120, May 30, 2012.

  1. monkey10120

    monkey10120 Notebook Enthusiast

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    I recently just just got a notification from microsoft security essentials saying I have a virus called Sirefef.w (and now .y), and no matter what I try to do i cant delete the dang thing. I dont trust the sites that tell you how to delete them because they look suspicious and dont tell to delete the same file between sites.

    I just use my G73s for gaming now and use the internet on my tablet, so I do not know where i got the virus from!
    Anyone have this problem I cant find a solution?
     
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  2. tijo

    tijo Sacred Blame

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    Download malwarebytes as well if you don't have it already, update both MSE and Malwarebytes. Reboot in safe mode, scan and try to remove anything you find then.
     
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    monkey10120 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Yeah I am trying that at the moment. I restored to about a week ago and it has not shown up in MSE yet and MSE and my firewall are back up. I was just hoping to hear a success story that it was removed without a clean install :p. We'll just have to wait till after MBAM is done scanning.
     
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    RMPG505 Notebook Consultant

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    Let us know how it goes. Do you have the is discs for reinstall? Worst case is the virus is in the ghosted Os and you need to low level reformat and reinstall from discs. I had this happen a couple years ago. Pain in the rear..best wishes.
     
    RMPG505, Jun 1, 2012
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