hello,
i suspect that my roommate downloaded an e-mail attachment yesterday while i was at work... he's not very computer savvy like me so, he probably didn't think the attachment was bad... well, now i have a rapidly spreading virus of some sort, ripping through my system... i guess i have a lot more to teach him about the internet... sigh, i thought he was smarter than that... anyways, here's a link to a description of the virus via symantec's website....
http://www.symantec.com/security_response/writeup.jsp?docid=2007-011917-1403-99the file name is "trojan.peacomm" and avast! does not recognize the virus... norton keeps telling me of this rapidly spreading threat... i do not have a "current" virus database for norton because my free subscription ran out months and months ago... and i am not willing to pay for this service when there are plenty of good "free" programs out there like avast!... however, norton is the only anti-virus program that recognizes this threat... but, norton refuses to remove it because my current protection has expired...
does anyone know of another way to remove this threat? or does anyone know of another "free" anti-virus program that could possibly remove this threat? i need all the help i can get because, avast! is not currently helping me... i am hoping that maybe in a few days, avast's virus databse will include this threat but right now, it isn't... and its forcing me to keep my CPU turned off so this virus cannot spread further into my system... so far, i don't think it's taken over but, it is in the system and it's supposedly "rapidly spreading"...
all help is appreciated... thanks...
EDIT: my CPU is running windows xp in case that info is important...