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Got trojan, can't boot in safe mode

Well, everything is back in quite good shape. The only things still busted are the USB drivers (8 of them). I uninstalled all of them in the device manager, deleted all the usb*.dll drivers in windows/system32/drivers, and let device detection find them. It grabbed the drivers off the installation CD, but they still don't work. Every driver is flagged:

Windows cannot load the device driver for this hardware. The driver may be corrupted or missing. (Code 39)

I think this will require a call to Dell.

~~ Paul
 
What antivirus were you using which this thing got past?

Did you acquire the trojan by clicking "ok" or "yes" on a pop-up when you should not have? Were you visiting a dangerous website, or something?
 
I use Microsoft Security Essentials. The guy who helped me repair my system said that "Windows Repair" slips past many antivirus packages. I have pop-ups blocked in Firefox, so it wasn't that. I was tooling around to various obscure sites at the time, so one of them must have been the nasty.

~~ Paul
 
Paul C. Anagnostopoulos said:
I use Microsoft Security Essentials. The guy who helped me repair my system said that "Windows Repair" slips past many antivirus packages. I have pop-ups blocked in Firefox, so it wasn't that. I was tooling around to various obscure sites at the time, so one of them must have been the nasty.

~~ Paul
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As you're using Firefox, I suggest you also get the NoScript add-on.
 
Paul C. Anagnostopoulos said:
AdMan, do you think I should allow scripts from these sites:
  • Amazon
  • eBay
  • Facebook
  • PayPal

~~ Paul
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Yes, I do. For some of those sites you'll need to allow scripts to run in order to properly use them. Also your bank, brokerage, airline and hotel sites, etc.

NoScript takes a bit of time to learn which sites are safe (as by default it stops all scripts unless you specifically allow them), but once you use it for a while, it stops being very intrusive. And it does make surfing safer, IMO.
 
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