radomirthegreat
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STC Virus
I recently got some software called "Second Thought" or something. I'm not sure because I deleted everything. I went to Regedit and removed all of the stuff. Basically, my antivirus program, PC-Cillin, identified it as STC, a virus. Then, it quarantined it and I removed it. However, my PC is now acting weird. PC-Cillin's web trap thing keeps popping up and I am still told I have the virus. It's been a bit less than an hour. I did nothing to cause this. How do I get rid of this thing?
Thank you,
Radomir Jordanovic
Thank you,
Radomir Jordanovic
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shivsa
u try running adware/spyware.
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I have Ad Aware, and PC-Cillin has identified 6 viruses. They're all pretty much that horrible STC thing. By the way, I deleted STClient from the registry. Is that all right?
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Also double check for viruses using one preferrably two of those online scanners I listed.
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Thank you. I'll see what I can do. Isn't, however, the threat over? The files have been quarantined and removed? The PC is back to normal. I even put it on "lockdown" (PC-Cillin feature) during the scan. I think it should be all right now. I take extra precautions not to run any weird programs on my PC, like Kazaa Media Desktop and such. I don't think I'd ever allow anything to happen to my great PC. I'll soon get DiskKeeper 8.0 to keep up this great speed. Could you warn me about any problems I'll soon face?
By the way, thanks for the extremely fast responses!
By the way, thanks for the extremely fast responses!
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I never download anything from sites. I ran that eTrust Online program and I came up with two Temporary Internet files. All of my temporary files are now gone! I'll keep running the programs and see what happens.
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I no longer have STC. My PC is back up and running as usual. Thank you all very much.