ip warning. used tries to get data from you

[wreeder]

Hi Ron,

Try going to the Properties panel of the Recycle Bin and changing the settings to 0% of the drive to use. After you click OK that should remove all the contents. You're not really deleting the file as much as you're telling the OS that it can use the reserved space for other things now. You can run Defrag and it will most likely over write the file if you really want to get rid of it for good. Change the settings back later if you want the protection of the recycle bin again.

William

 

[misterchugg]

thanks willem

i'll keep that in mind for next time.
should it ever happen agan.
i finally got rid of nearly 2 gig of rubbish

thanks again everybody for helping
cheers
ron

 

[VinnyBarb]

Recycler is a nasty piece of virus, do a Google search for it to see how to remove it. There are certain programs that might fix this particular piece of $h*t but in general a reformat is the best.

This virus hides in your drive's and/or partition "System Volume Information" in one of the .ini files and it gets replicated by doing a hidden "System restore" or such. Best is for the time being to set your "System Restore" to none and delete all references of the RECYCLER folder in your drives and/or partitions by finding them in Windows Explorer. As well as ALL files in your "System Volume Information" to make this folder empty (0 bytes) or RECYCLER will replicate itself again.

I had this particular virus transferred to me via a USB memory stick I used on my brother's PC to get something I needed from it. It is still on one of my PC's but it can do no further harm (I think ) as I done the above things to it and so far so good, fingers crossed. In the near future I will reformat.

I also have Sygate Firewall Pro 5.6 running on my PC, this firewall tells me when something wants to go out (online) from my PC and where it wants to go when online. I just click no when asked if I do not know where it wants to get to as surprisingly a lot of legitimate programs do such and phone home. Unfortunately Sygate was bought out some years ago by another firewall mob and does not exist anymore but one can still find and d/load the last published copy of it on the internet.

Sygate firewall makes a good companion with most other firewalls as there are not many others (none that I know of) which will tell me what is trying to go OUT of my PC and where it wants to go when online. I use this firewall together with ZoneAlarm for several years already and am happy with its performance, despite Sygate Pro being some years old already.

Cheers

VinnyBarb