a friend of mine dropped off her machine ... it had that pop-up box virus

after cleaning it 2x with mbam the machine still cannot connect to the internet. last time i helped someone with this there was some changes that the virus made to the proxy settings i believe, would anyone happen to know what it is im talking about?



also, as far as the sticky ... a few notes:

1-i was only able to regain control over my machine by booting into safe mode, the virus stopped all .exe including the msconfig. on the hp machine i was working on ... tapping f8 durning boot got me to the menu.

2-because of this i wasnt able to update mbam the traditional way, i had to find an update via an executable, it was a pretty painful process due to all the 404 errors (i think the mbam pubs would like to see some coin for their efforts, which i dont blame them).

thanks,
running