ok so my aptop crached, it felt like a virus, im on it now its restarted but my background didnt load etc, in the start menu there are no options at all, yet things on my desktop are working, its allowed me to come on here. but several messages are popping up

also this thing called file recovery has opened, its done a mega scan sayin 7 problems and when i click to fix it takes me to a page where i have to put details and pay ... not trusting this at all!!!

any ideas please people.

thats the virus mate, need to run a whole scan on your computer and it should get rid of it

Check your installed programes from the control panel see if any there are unknown to you first Lee as some do a silent install.

Good reputable free spyware/adware detection programes to try if you have same problem after main AV scan.

Malwarebytes
http://www.malwarebytes.org/

Spybot Search & Destroy
http://www.safer-networking.org/

Edited at 02:41 Fri 07/09/12 (BST)

thanks, i went through google and found a guy with a how to do it guide it had an activation caod, ran the program and tis ok, just seen a min ago my files are also back, however it hasnt reloaded my desktop background, lol.

Maybe just run they 2 programes above mate as it could be now that it looks like its ok infact it has got the programe doing more devious stuff

oooooo sounds horrible!!!

Can be lol...Just incase its a keylogger ...couldn't have your FB, email etc getting hacked now can we

WAS it any of these m8 ?

http://www.im-infected.com/rogue/data-recovery-virus.html

http://trojan-killer.net/remove-file-recovery-virus/

yea both of them were showing up on the scan that i ran, not sure if the scan worked properly though, but things went into quarantine

also my home page was a browser and it was a bad one so its stopped me using that, searchnu or summin

its wreckin my head now, i feel like sumone is in my compute looking through my stuff!!! uurrrggghhh

horrible, why the hell me!!!

What Anti Virus did you do your initial scan with ?

Def run malwarebytes & spybot mate see if they turn anything up.

If no success then it will have to be a manual removal

Dont just leave it after the activation code section as the virus is still on your machine mate..Follow ALL the steps.

Follow the Manual Removal procedure on how to remove on this link

http://malwaretips.com/blogs/file-recovery-virus/

Edited at 04:06 Fri 07/09/12 (BST)

Tell us how you got on mate please

i had this last year it is a virus and was a pain in the **** but i evetually got rid of it it.. its quite a well known virus..

rogue virus i believe its called nasty virus.

too much porn that i got it from downloading a porn video..haha wont be doing that again..

I watched a live stream of Amir Khan's last fight and now I have that searchnu as my homepage...

yea its a pain,that searchnu is a rogue page like. well i need to get rid of it i know., just seems like hard work


i never download it at all and i dont have any anti spy software at all haha

how this has lasted me 7 years ill never know like.

will check the link about complete removal and try again, hate these things

ive now completed all tthe steps, stole a whole night off me but i feel safer, happy days!!

ATTEMPTED FRAUD OF 500 DOLLARS ON MY CARD THIS MORNING..... HAS TO BE LINKED!!!