Help, I have a TROJAN.

[sufikation]

I downloaded the file that reik linked me, went to burn it and it was gone. I cant find it anywhere...im giving up for the night I guess.

 

[reikoshea]

lol, make sure to hit save and not open

 

[sufikation]

Ahh...looks like I have another 2+ hour download ahead of me. Its a learning process, lol.

 

[Bobby17772]

not to thread jack or anything but if I wanted to put ubuntu on my laptop would I have to burn it to a disc or could I just save it to an external hard drive and open it from there and just boot the os from there

 

[reikoshea]

kinda hard to boot from a drive unless its flagged to be bootable.

short answer, no, burn it to a disk or get a thumb drive for 10 bucks and use that:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LiveUsbPendrivePersistent

 

[chestercheeto48]

That trojan really isn't that hard to deal with. When it gives you the security pop up instead of clicking try to controlaltdelete and it should let you see the task manager. you can kill it there. otherwise load malwarebytes onto a usb drive turn off your restore points and run a quick scan. Make sure you update the database though.

 

[sufikation]

My pops brought over malwarebytes on his flash drive and it fixxed my problem...about damn time. Thanks again for the help everyone.