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My computer has this virus, please help me remove it...
How the hell did you get blaster? Do you not patch your machine?
[url] http://www.symantec.com/security_response/writeup.jsp?docid=2003-081119-5051-99 [/url]
And after you've removed it, run windows update and set it to update automatically if you canl't be bothered doing it yourself.
Ooh, Blaster, you can't kill that- it's an endangered species.
retro virus 🙂
Very good!
To get that you must have been running an entirely un-patched machine without any sort of anti-virus software in a DMC-12.
If you have no Anti virus software go to www.malwarebytes.org and download the free version - which you can also keep up to date free. I use this as well as Mcafee. I did have Norton which let in a virus that malware bytes got rid of.
Blaster?
In 2011?
[i]Really?[/i]
There are many Blaster removal tools. [url= http://www.sophos.com/support/disinfection/blastera.html ]Here[/url] is one. Sarcasm aside, the Blaster exploit was fixed several years ago, run Windows Update. A Blaster infection was inexcusable back in the mid-2000's.
CTHelper is part of the Creative Labs soundcard software. It's not a virus as far as I'm aware, I'd need more info as to why you think it is.
Anyone else think this is something else entirely? I mean, if I was a trojan I'd call myself something like "Microsoft Essential Thing" rather than Blaster but it could just be a misdirection.
well I anticipated it was one of those malware things that pretends you've got a virus so you pay them money but couldn't find any obvious reference to this.
Could well be. Heaven forbid that anyone should provide any actual information when they ask for IT help. I have this conversation on pretty much a daily basis:
"My computer came up with an error."
"Right, what does it say?"
"Oh I don't know, I closed it, I don't understand any of this computer shit."
"You don't have to understand it, that's what I'm here for. You just have to be able to read, but that's seemingly either beyond or beneath you. Congratulations on not just being utterly ignorant of a tool that you have to use as part of your job, but for actually being [i]proud [/i]of that fact. And thanks for referring to my career as 'shit,' that really gives me a warm fuzzy feeling about helping you." ... is what I'd like to be able to say.
I get that regularly from my dad/sister over the phone. They've both just got new laptops, I've made them buy the engineer-on-site warranty stuff so that they can pester Dell instead of me 😀