...Media-Codec..? HELP! (in Off-topic)

okay so i went on AIM and my friend, who i dont think really was the one I.M.'ing me, said

"hey i just made a myspace cube for you, check it out"
he then sent me a link and i clicked and downloaded it.

now my computer pops things up saying "Fatal Error!" and telling me stuff about this "Media Codec" thing.

anyone know how i cna resolve this problem???

Restore to an earlier date if you can then run your antivirus and and Spyware/Maleware Blockers that you can. I suggest when you do this that you unhook from the internet physically(unplug your Ethernet Cable from your Comp)

should have been "and any"

Never click links.

Do a virus scan.

something has replaced my desktop background
theres writing saying what i wont be able to do like "Not being able to listen to Audio Files" ect.

theres a big button that says "Update Now"
it says that it will help restore my computer?

should i trust it?

No don't trust it, do a restore if you can. A lot of trojans try to get you to click on ads and other files to download more trojans and pay for software that is fake.

Listen to Titan. It's system restore time. Greatest Windows invention ever.

Also, if you have an antivirus at all, do a scan and post the results.

seems as though Viruses are getting smarter these days.

-all previous restore points aren't available so i cant restore to an earlier time
-my scanner is scanning muchhhhh slower than it usually does, but i guess ill just have to be patient with that.
-disk defragmentation does not work anymore. It says "Disk Defragmenter could not start!"


if the scanner fails. i suppose ill have to take the dang thing to Fry's.

why must people create these annoying viruses....

You could always open in safe mode, which I would assume you're not in right now.

My recommendation would be to get avast, if you can, and run a scan.

how do you manually go into safe mode?

and ill try out that avast program :D

Press F8 and go to safe mode.

Yeah if you had avast before this happened it would have prevented the whole thing. Getting rid of viruses is a lot harder than preventing them. :( Hope you can fix it tho without a reformat.

The CB community proves to be sooo helpful.

thanks guys

superantispyware

Yeah, Avast has worked great for me.

Free good antivirus :
http://free.avg.com/download?prd=afe

The only codec pack you'll ever need:
http://www.cccp-project.net/download.php?type=cccp

K-Lite is what i use, and Avast is the Anti Virus I use, =)

But yea, this Codec thing sounds like a virus I received a while ago, WinAntiVirus Pro 2008. All it was was a virus that caused pop-up ads constantly until i reformatted my HDD. Was not able to System restore, so you're lucky, =)

This also means your friends pc is infected with a bot. Probably not a virus.

The virus he/she got was trojan that downloaded the bot. The bot now controls his msn/aim and sends out these messages.

Congrats! Your pc is now a member of a botnet :)

Download spybot search and destroy to start searching for bots, which most virus scanners miss. Don't ask me why but they do.

Download also hijackthis! to see which current programs/processes are running. Google every single proces you see to see what it is. then delete the bot :) simple no?

Henk: reason is that most spy-ware (as you call it spy-bots) work differently from viruses and are not recognised as viruses :)

THE BEST CHOICE:

use malwabytes , it removes virus trojan and any bad thing even the best programs CAN'T.

i had a bad infection it even turned off my AV , only it solved the problem its very quick and has only 2 mb.

And Try to use k-lite mega codec pack, its very complete solution for movies