I accidentally downloaded a virus onto my laptop, HELP!
All I wanted was to get those free smileys from the ad I saw watching anime, and now the text I write is randomly emboldened! The ad took me to a site called smilesfree4u.co. The whole webpage was full of those download buttons, all fitted together like a gallery wall. I wanted my smileys though, so I just hit one of them and the page redirected a few times. I caught one of the urls that flashed past me in the corner of my eye.
milfmania34.co.uk
I should have known my laptop was cooked...
During those redirects, a file downloaded to my desktop. Then the browser redirected back to what looked the og website, but had a slightly different url, smiles.4u.info. The download buttons were faded out like an ad vignette and there was big blue bolded impact font in size 120 pt font saying "Thank you for download".
At this point I was a little nervous, but I shook it off. I wanted those smileys, and I've already come so far.
I minimized my browser, Opera GX themed to look like Internet Explorer, and threw the newly downloaded zip file into a new folder. I figured it have be a bunch of image files that it pulls from when you sent a sticker online, so I put it away so it won't unzip all over my desktop. Now in the folder, I double-clicked smiles4u.zip, opening it in Win-RaR, and proceed to unzip it into the folder. There were only three files; smiley.vst, boldtext.exe and a readme. The first made sense, but what the hell is boldtext? I double-clicked the readme and read it.
oo_ \\\ //wW WwW W wWw oo_ wWw .-. ()_() wWw wWw .-. wWw wWw .--. / _)-((O) (O)(O)(O(O)(O) (O)_/ _)-< (O)_ c(O_O)c(O o) (O) (O)c(O_O)c (O) (O)(O)(O) \__ `. | \ / | (..) || / __\__ `. / __,'.---.`,|^_\ ( \ / ,'.---.`, / ) ( \| o / `. |||\\//|| || | \ / ( `. | / ( / /|_|_|\ |(_)) \ \/ / /|_|_|\ / / \ |`-/ _| ||| \/ || _||_ | `( _) _| | ( _)| \_____/ | / \o /| \_____/ | \____/ |_/ ,-' ||| ||(_/\_)(.-.__\ \_ ,-' | / / '. `---' .)|\\ _/ / '. `---' .'. `--' ._ (_..--'(_/ \_) `-' \__(_..--' )/ `-...-'(/ \) (_.' `-...-' `-..-'(_)
Thank you for downloaded our smileys!
In order to you to use them properly, please drag both files into the plugin folder of your browser of choice.
Both files are necessary to function. Keep them together.
After that, restart your browser.
--FunnyMan
I don't know enough about computers to dispute anything said here, so I trusted him.
Both files, into opera, fully restarted. Then my laptop started making airplane noises and almost died. I thought it was over for me, for my laptop. All my files could have been kill.
It took hours to revive my laptop and eventually it worked, but even before it booted up, I knew something was wrong.
All the text in the boot screen was randomly bolded. And when I went to log in, instead of my name, it said FunnyMan's pc. On my desktop, all the icons were replaced with fugly 3D smileys, and all the buttons and thumbnails from my browser were also replaced. The yellow demons stared back at me with gleeful malice.
My computer looked ridiculous, and with all the icons changed around, it was nearly unusable.
I was pissed. I remembered seeing a contact link on the first website, so I tried going back, but when I did. The domain was gone. I tried the other one and all that was left was this fucked up image.
Guys, how do I fix my laptop? Is it over for me??
