So the story is, I have loads of ad-ware and viruses and its starting to p*** me off. I have been using SpyBot Search& Destroy, but now for some reason it won't open anymore, neither will Norton AntiVirus. I have tried the Kaspersky online scanner but that didn't seem to work either. Can somebody recommend me a program to use that will work?
View 7 Replies"If your system is a Microsoft product and you have your 20 digit registration number, you can go to the Microsoft web site, and they will do a free scan and most likely remove any known virus such as Trojan win32.murlo." Is this true, and where would I find my 20 digit registration and what is the web site?
View 9 Replies View Related1) It is not slowing down my computer or anythinbg. But whenever i plug USB stick into my computer and then remove it. There are 2 files created/ mIRC.exe i think.
View 7 Replies View Relatedim aisha and im worried that my pc got lots of virus.. sometimes antivirus never detect some. one of the best ways to do is by using the command prompt.. i used to do it with flashdrives but i cant make it now.
View 5 Replies View RelatedI have vista ultimate 32 bit. Recently, everytime I start up vista, my antivirus software BitDefender Internet Security 2009, blocks a virus ... goasi.cn/ex/a.php Does anyone know what this is??, and how can I remove it
View 7 Replies View RelatedHey friends,I do understand that this is not the category in which I'am supposed to post such threads,but since this section/community is very active and consists of many professionals I thought of posting it here.I posted a thread in the other section meant for virus but unfortunately did not receive any kind of help or reply.
I downloaded a video through utorrents,when I tried to play it through 'Windows Media Player' it was'nt able to play it and a dialogue box appeared asking me to download a codec which was necessary to play that video.Since the dialogue box appeared through 'Windows Media Player' and due to my ignorance,I thought it was authorized and downloaded the codec..........
I got a virus called trojan.fakeinit virus and I tried to remove this virus and I think I got it removed. And the side effects of this virus were that I couldn't manage to get into my task manger, than my favorites disappeared (well it is on my favorites file but I can't use the favorites on the exploer. I might have erased some registries by accidently .....) So I still have some viruses called
1. adware.component.unrelated,
2. trojan.generic,
3. application.trakingcookie.
I want to remove these anyone know free softwares that can remove these? I want to recover my favorites and task manager. And i get similar to this (c;windowssystem32confifdestop not accessible) when i try to download a file or even I tried to attach some file into this thread... DO I just have to formet my computer?
Norton found a Trojan.Brisv.A!inf virus that affects two files that I needed to manually remove. One of the files I deleted with no problem, but I cannot delete the other file (both MP3 Files) no matter WHAT I try! can delete this file! I have searched posts, and nothing I try will allow me to delete this MP3 File.
View 7 Replies View RelatedI am working on an A300-1J1 (French Keyboard & Vista 32). The machine is owned by a member of my family, and when I got it it was totally down due to virus contamination. I started out getting the system virus free and by using Bit Defender, Avira Rescue and Trinity Rescue Disk, I managed to get it to the point where I was not finding any malware, but still couldn't boot due to files being trashed by the various malware that had been picked up. The machine was so hard down that it would BSOD almost contiously on a boot or would hang in the welcome screen.
I removed the hard drive and put it in a USB Sata external unit and then did a Avira check and it told me that the unit was clean, I then did a chkdsk /f /r and had 5 files that had been damaged and were repaired. I then did a defrag and re installed the drive and it boots fine, but i cannot seem to use any of my USb flash drives or my USB sata eternal units on it. It keeps trying to install USB Controllers and Intel USB Devices, but it tells me that when I plug in a USB flash drive or a Sata drive that it doesn't recognize the peripheral...
I read an article last week that the number one thing to do to protect your computer from malware is to run it in a "user" account. Equal to that is simply good behavior or sites on internet. Also to keep everything updated. I have always done these things. I run the latest Avast for my antivirus protection. I also have windows defender protection on and PC Tools Firewall Plus for firewall. Tonight I looked at drudge report and clicked on a link to a British newspaper. The article wasn't what I thought it was and it looked like a tabloid (Sun? closed so quick don't remember) and tabloid is not news so I quickly closed that window and went on to next links. My computer went slow after that. Just did not seem right. Restarted in safe mode and ran cCleaner computer clean and registry clean in both user and admin. Restarted and all my appearance settings are different. Runs slow or different. I remembered Windows Defender updated yesterday and the update always does a restore point. Tried to run System restore to restore to yesterday settings. After giving admin permission I saw the wait circle just disappear. It was like vista just ignored or canceled the start up of system restore. Every time I retried System restore it did the same thing or crashed my computer.
This smells like a virus. I go to main stream web sites only, run computer with (default limited) user account (use admin only when I need to make certain changes which is rare), Avast updates automatically multiple times a day. With these settings and behavior I thought I was bulletproof. I even read that $10,000 hacking prize winner Dino Dai Zovi and Rich Mogull both said Vista more secure than Apple Mac. I am currently scanning whole computer with a-squared Free. I will then scan with Avast, Malwarebytes Anti-Malware, SUPERAntiSpyware, Windows Defender, and again with Microsoft Malicious Software Removal Tool, in that order. What do I do if all these scans find nothing?
What do I do now? I never had a virus or malware before. Is it like the mumps, you want to get it as a child and not an adult? Does antivirus or antimalware remove bad stuff or does it just tell me I am infected and I need to reformat and rebuild system
A Trojan that Counter Spy has found, I have done 3 full scans and each time this miserable little blighter keeps coming back, and I don't know how else to get shot of it. here is a screenshot of what Counter Spy found, please ignore the Cookies one as I have told it to remove and it was successful, its just the Trojan that keeps coming back on each scan I do. As a sidenote, how do I post a screen of something that shows straight away instead of an attachment that you must click on?
View 6 Replies View RelatedI have Norton internet security in my PC but i still receiving message from th PC that i have virus.What can be the problem or how can i do to remove
View 4 Replies View RelatedI'm getting a pop-up during some (but not all) boot ups in the morning. It gives me the option of allowing it or cancelling it - cancelling means I don't know what the program is and don't want it to load. What the heck is going on? Is this mal-ware? Is it already on my computer? My mal-ware scans with Ad-Aware don't mention it. Nor do scans by Windows Defender. But it's spooky....
View 6 Replies View RelatedI have uninstalled MacAfee and Windows Mail now works fine. Do I need to install something else instead? My internet provider, British Telecom, claim to filter my mail for virus and I have the Mailwasher spam
programme.
Ive been searching everywhere for answers i have vista home premium with windows live care anti virus in perfect condition and it detected something trying to connect to the internet. This monster devil thing icon beside it told me right away...trouble and also the random numbers...By looking in the settings of my anti virus i found that i blocked 4 of them so far ive scanned with my anti virus 2 times and 3 times with spybot search and destroy AND ran a ccleaner.It's still there...I just want to get rid of this once and for all but what in God's name is it!
View 6 Replies View RelatedI have experienced two instances were Add/Remove in Vista does not remove all the software, so that comprehensive installation of similar software is not possible. The first concerned a Scanner, where Add/Remove would not remove all the software, so that installation of the new Scanner is not possible, until a procedure recommended by the Scanner's makers involving modifications to the Registry is carried out, which I could not possibly do myself, so it means hiring a Professional to do the job!
The second concerns Spellex. Here again the old version has not been removed, so that installation of the latest version is not fully carried out, making the software useless. How can Microsoft produce Windows where such problems occur? What is the experience of others in case this is a fault with my computer?
I am being badly haunted by a Bagle virus that randomly shuts my PC down.
I have installed and run every type of virus scanning/removal tool (Windows included) in the world and although I removed other items, this virus will be dormant for days on end and then just shut down.
I ran Spyware Doctor and this is the infection location:
HKEY_USERSS-1-5-21-506413866-1318214124-3902625216-1001SoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionRun, german.exe
Windows claims it is an email virus but no matter how hard I try, I cannot remove it. I have gone to the location of the virus manually through RegEdit but it doesn't show in the folder it indicates it is located (above).
Kaspersky, Norton, McAfee, you name it will shut them down when installing them. I quit. Any help is always appreciated.
I get a small alert window pop into the middle of the screen called "ENTER NETWORK PASSWORD" then text saying "type your username and password" Then there is three boxes with the details of my username etc and my password ****'d out. I can click "OK" or "CANCEL" or "CLOSE" but the box comes back. I am running Symantec virus protector and it finds nothing and Spybot and it shows there is a couple of items it can't correct unless I have admin profile.
Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1
Code: Scan saved at 17:17:35, on 09/06/2008
Platform: Unknown Windows (WinNT 6.00.1904)
MSIE: Internet Explorer v7.00 (7.00.6000.16643)
Running processes:
C:Windowssystem32 askeng.exe
C:Windowssystem32Dwm.exe
C:windowsSMINSTscheduler.exe
C:Program FilesWindows DefenderMSASCui.exe
C:Program FilesPDF Completepdfsty.exe
C:Program FilesBrotherBrmfcmonBrMfcWnd.exe
C:Program FilesWinZip E-Mail Companionloadwzco.exe
C:windowsSystem32igfxtray.exe
C:windowsSystem32hkcmd.exe
C:windowsSystem32igfxpers.exe
C:Program FilesCommon FilesSymantec SharedccApp.exe
C:Windowssystem32igfxsrvc.exe
C:Program FilesSymantec AntiVirusVPTray.exe
C:Program FilesJavajre1.6.0_05injusched.exe...................
I have an HP dv5-1000us running Vista Home Premium 64, and I've had it for several months. Recently it has developed a tendancy to randomly freeze solid (no control alt delete, no coming back from being frozen, must hard restart). It got much worse when I tried to install the new Zune update (3.1); now it will freeze like clockwork about 3 minutes after I open Zune. If I don't open Zune, it's much more random but it still happens. Another symptom is that I started getting a message that my sound driver software had to close due to a "problem". Sound still works, I just get the annoying message. Nothing I do seems to fix it, including Bios flashing, driver/device install/reinstall, etc.
I was really surprised when I looked at the system monitor. I have 4 gigs of RAM installed, and it runs at a steady 1.7gb usage with no programs open. I have disabled the animation stuff, too. When I open Zune it shoots up to around 2gb. The processor varies between 4 to 20% with no programs open, and is at 95-99% when Zune is open. As I'm typing this, I have flock, skype, and outlook open, the processor is running at about 30% and the RAM usage holds at a steady 1.76gb. Question: Is this normal? Or is it time (already) to bust out the restore disks?
I looked up all the info about the Virtumonde virus/trojan and everywhere I read said it's a virus that's more of a popup.. it's an ad crapper.. sends you hundreds of ad's and stuff of that sort. and that it can attach to IE and record your keystrokes and all that. but my brother doesn't have this problem.
My brothers problem with this Virtumonde virus. It's starting WITH Windows and completely locks him out of the system. During Boot, it's all fine, enters password. and see's background picture. then it covers the screen saying Virus detected and says what it is. and can't do ANYTHING. nothing works from there. I've tried cntl, alt, del. I've started in Safe Mode. only for it to stop with safe mode written in all 4 corners and do nothing.
I'm not the smartest person on virus's and stuff of this sort. I'm a gamer, and a builder, and Overclocker. not a Tech that can fix viruses. if I have to I'll just reinstall windows on his system. (XP) He doesn't have anything really he'd miss on that hard drive. just a few programs, Ventrillo and such.
Windows Defender or Avast stalls whenever I try to run them. Then, the only way to make the PC work again is to perform a hard restart. I try to have an on-line scan from the Symantec site, to no avail. The PC stalls again. Now, when Avast always seems to stall on either of the following files: system32/ntmarta.dll or System32/ntoskrnl.exe
Is ntmarta.dll a "straight" file or is it a virus ? Just for a try I tried to rename it, but could not do it. An errror message indicated that I do not have the rights to do so.
Everytime I log in and check my Windows Security center. my virus protection is off! How do I get it on and why is it doing this?
View 6 Replies View RelatedFor instance if I went to Best Buy and bought a computer game and installed and played it on a computer with TONS of viruses, THEN I got a brand new computer and downloaded and installed that SAME game on my new computer- could I get the same viruses on the new one?
View 8 Replies View RelatedI'm having a problem with the Iron man CD. Sega knows that there is a problem with the cd and the game.
View 4 Replies View RelatedCan an antivirus software be infected with virus? Why do I often get frequent virus alerts when my antivirus scanners report my system is clean?
View 9 Replies View RelatedI'm nearing the end of my subscription with Norton and I don't want to re-new it as i am not a fan of the software no more.
I am planning on using Windows Defender to scan my PC etc and using Windows Firewall.
Can anyone recommend free anti virus/spyware software for my laptop which is running Windows Vista Premium.
I want to download the Free anti virus for my Vista, but im wondering which is the best?
View 6 Replies View RelatedTurned off UAC in Vista x64 Ultimate, Received an e-mail that appeared to be my CNN alerts. It was Antivirus XP 2008 virus. Avast Pro 4.8 has been finding viruses in both Safe Mode and regular. Search and Destroy can't seem to deal with them. Backing up my data right now. Ready to reinstall everything. S&D reports clear. IE7 does not always work. I reset and internet connection gets blocked.
Antivirus XP 2008
Exchanger Trojan
Other Trojan horses
When I clear all viruses and activate UAC the Trojan horses are still present........
i have been getting the blue scren virus a lot.....i had tried running spyware adn virsu checks (AVG Free) but it never finishes. I have also tried instaling service pack one but that also never finishes. I have my computer doing weekly defrages so i do not think that is the problem. I am at the stage when i think i need to completly re-install everything. can i have some advice, if i do have to re-install everything how do i do that? - i still have all needed disks.
View 5 Replies View RelatedI was browsing online (no naughty sites, I promise) I opened a window that appeared to have one of those classic fake antivirus programs.. you know the kind, "Your computer may be infected get a free scan now!!" The green progress bar at the bottom of my IE window started to move across as if something was downloading so I didn't stick around. I tried to close the window by right clicking on the task bar, that didn't work, so I shut down my internet connection. To close the window I shut down my computer. I restarted, and all seemed to be well. I have the Norton fraud monitoring active on IE and it didn't show any errors, but just to be safe, I scanned with both Defender and my Norton (both up to date). Nothing came up.
I checked my software explorer with Defender, no new startup programs, no unfamiliar processes. The computer is acting normal. No pop ups, no unusual CPU activity. The one thing that worries me is that when I went looking into the reports and activities section of my Norton software, under 'firewall activities' starting yesterday at around the time this all happened, I saw this message showing up
About a week ago I had the "Vista Antivirus 2010" virus on my computer. I was able to get rid of it pretty quickly with AVG, but since then I have been having an annoying (but not debilitating) problem. The Vista Antivirus 2010 appears on your computer pretending to be a new program downloaded through vista updates, and lets you know that you have viruses on your computer. Its main purpose is a financial scam: to remove the viruses you need to pay for the "full version" of the program. To stop you from being able to remove it easily, it makes it so that whenever you open an .exe program on your computer it will open instead, and then determins whether the program is a threat or not. For example, I was able to run Firefox, but I had to trick it to let me run AVG.
However, now that it is gone, I am still having trouble running .exe files. When I attempt to run one, it prompts me to select the program that I want to use to open the file, which is not possible since that is the program that should open it (does that make sense?). I have had to redo all of my shortcuts, and still need to "run as administrator" and then give the program permission to run each time. I know that this is a long explanation