Does anyone out there have any information on how to get rid of the spyware Trojan.Win32.Agent.azsy that we downloaded onto our Vista laptop? Most websites either force you to pay for a solution or tell you to remove files--files which don't exist in the first place.
View 9 RepliesI am using vista home premium with a 64-bit operating system. I have Avast free antivirus installed. I started getting messages from Vista Defender that my computer was being attacked by viruses, spyware and trojan horses. When I clicked "remove all" they wanted me to buy something. I restarted my computer and I am no longer getting the vista defender warnings, but I can't access several programs like windows media player, yahoo messenger etc.
Also, the icons for these programs disappeared from my task bar. When I try to launch these programs from the start menu I get a message that says "Windows cannot access the specified device, path or file. You may not have the appropriate permissions to access the item". I'm the only one that uses this computer.
This trojan is identified by Windows LiveOne scan. It is not removed, however. This trojan is not seen by Norton360 full scan (N360 being too busy trying to eliminate the one lonely tracking cookie we need here to access our email). This trojan is not seen by Malwarebytes full scan, either. Does anyone have any info what is this trojan and should it be removed (and how)? It does not appear to be doing anything bad, but not Sure...not sure.
View 5 Replies View RelatedRecently I posted about attacks that involve exploits of the recently discovered vulnerability in Internet Explorer. Based on MMPC stats, since the vulnerability has gone public, roughly 0.2% of users worldwide may have been exposed to websites containing exploits of this latest vulnerability. That percentage may seem low, however it still means that a significant number of users have been affected. The trend for now is going upwards: MPC reports an increase of over 50% in the number of reports each day. The SANS Internet Storm Center, which tracks hacking trends, said that while the exploit does not appear to be widely in use at the moment, that situation is likely to change soon, since instructions showing criminals how to take advantage of this flaw have been posted online. According to knownsec, earlier this year a rumor emerged in the Chinese underground about an IE7 vulnerability and in October it began to be traded privately. In November it got into underground black market and was traded for about $15K. Later in December, it emerged and people sold the exploit second or third hand for about $650. Finally, someone purchased those second hand exploits to develop and deploy a Chinese gaming Trojan.
MMPC points to the Win32 Trojan as being the principle offender. However Secunia have a different take..........
Defender removed this trojan on 12thApril but I am left with an entry in All programs showing "Messenger Skinner2" and I cannot remove it.Does this mean that the trojan has not been removed completely and can anybody tell me what to do about it as I am still getting threat notices from a "Phoney Windows Security" site and full page adverts from all sorts of firms?
View 6 Replies View RelatedI turned on my computer the other day and an automatic download started to update my Verizon Internet Security Suiter (FIOS). I started a scan of my computer with the update. The new Security Suite update supposedly found 29,000+ infected files with a virus named Trojan-Downloader.Win32.VB.dck? The weird thing is - When I look for the files that are supposedly infected - or the folder that these files supposedly exist in I can't find it. The virus appears to have created a folder named " ' " on my hard drive - but when I look for this folder I can't find it. Even if I view hidden folders. My computer doesn't appear to be running strangly like it is infected. But the virus scan says it is.
View 4 Replies View RelatedWindows Defender has found a "Backdoor:Win32 Agent" but when I ask to have it removed I receive error '0x80501001', couldn't complete the action successfully. I have located the file on my external hard drive and have tried to delete it manually (using right click from the mouse). Apparently the file is successfully deleted but when I go back into the folder it has re-appeared.
View 8 Replies View Related"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 RelatedI bought an Laptop with Vista Home Premium 32bit. If I install a FULL version of Windows 7 on this Laptop, can I use the Vista Home Premium 32bit key from the laptop on one of my other desktops? If so, would I talk to Microsoft or the manufacturer to get a disk without all the manufacturer "Bonus" software?
View 9 Replies View RelatedI have recently purchased Vista 64bit via digital rivers "Ultimate Steal". I checked through Windows update advisor that it was possible to run this on my machine and it said that it would be (I am running XP pro x32 on an X58i motherboard with i7-920 processor and 6GB ram). As instructed I have downloaded the three files onto my computer (X14-63453.exe, bootwim, bootmgr.efi) and stored them into a "read and write" enabled folder on my desktop. When I run the file "X14-63453.exe" A new folder "Vista" is createdand several subfolders and files extracted but then I get and error message saying "" I believe the problem is that I am trying to install vista x64 from an XP pro x32 OS, and the vista setup files are not Win32 compatible....is this correct. If so what is the work around? In understand there is a trial version of XP x64 for download - Where is it?. Can I install this first and then download the Vista setup files onto my new desktop and proceed that way.
View 5 Replies View Relatedwhat might be the best spyware removal program for vista 64bit, preferably freeware If anyone.
View 5 Replies View RelatedNeed a good free anti spyware program that runs well with Vista Home Premium. I downloaded the bought version 8.0 and began having problems with the computer lagging, and generally slow all over, not thinking it was AVG, I checked every other possible issue that I thought may be causing it. Eventually it lead to AVG, as things had been good prior to installation. I completely removed AVG and everything returned to normal, great! But then I done a further download of the program again, and once again the problems began. Is there a good alternative Anti Spyware program that is recommended ?
View 9 Replies View RelatedJust for the record I downloaded SP1 and ran it on my Vista Home Premium machine. Went away and had a cuppa. Came back and it was all done and dusted. No problems, no issues, no disasters, no glitches, no crashes, no blue screens, no screaming or gnashing of teeth. What HAVE I done wrong?
View 9 Replies View RelatedWhy do you use Forte Agent for your newsreader? What's wrong with OE? Don't you have to pay for Forte Agent?
View 9 Replies View RelatedDoes anyone know how to fix a problem with the User Agent information for ie 8?
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2. Any version of Agent mail.ru. I checked everything the Agent mail.ru support suggested. The support does not know what to suggest any more.
Microsoft has a great tool that will change our IE7 User Agent to make it appear that you are visiting a website with IE6. This tool is designed to help users that need to visit a website that may be incompatible with the IE7 user agent.....
View 0 Replies View RelatedNot sure what is happening to my vista laptop. Recently i have noticed that i am unable to play my DVD's. More to the point I am unable to see the DVD player in my computer.
What i have done to remedy the situation is as follows.
1. Booted up and checked the BIOS made sure that the CD was booting first and HDD second.
2. Checked in My Computer properties there was no exclamation mark against any hardware and i was unable to see my DVD detailed there.
3. The DVD player is an internal player and i am unable to detatch and re-attach.
I have a wireless network and two laptops. one is packard bell and it is working fine and the other a toshiba. For both of them i use windows vista home premium x86 with SP1. for the packard bell is no problem in searching and installing windows updates. with the toshiba is a pain in the a.. . a few weeks ago I have noticed that there is un update regarding the WU agent that wont work. I tried but no luck. I managed to manually install WUA 3.0 but the result is even worst, as you can see in the picture. After a few weeks I decided to reinstall windows with the hope that everything will be allright. No luck. With a fresh windows vista, and only with the antivirus, eset nod32, i have the same problem. I do not know if this is related, but I can not access microsoft.com for those who are kinde enough to give me a hand I attached the windowsupdate log with all the errors inside it. is not a very big file, only 2 days of strugling.
View 9 Replies View RelatedTo enable you to workaround any remaining sites that block access to Internet Explorer 7, we developed the User Agent String Utility. The utility comes in the form of a small executable that opens an IE7 instance that sends the IE6 user agent string. It also provides a mechanism for you to report problem web sites to Microsoft so that we can follow up with the affected site owners. Please download the tool and give it a try....
View 0 Replies View RelatedI don't know why but for some reason within the last week or so my xbox360 has stopped connecting to my hp laptop (vista home premium 32bit). I have a 2wire 1800hg gateway, with both the laptop and xbox connected wirelessly (using Intel link 5100/official microsoft wireless connector respectively).
As I say before a few days ago I could access my shared media via my xbox dashboard, as well as via the media center extender. However now it's not working. The 2wire has it's own firewall but I have opened the laptops connections up completely today (although this wasn't an issue a week or two ago?). And I've opened up many ports in windows firewall too.
When I look at the full map in the network and sharing connections window it does indeed show the xbox and laptop connecting to the router, so it is seeing it. However no connection can be made in either direction (i.e. the xbox cannot find any pc's and the pc's media center can't find the mc extender). I've tried numerous things so far, opening ports etc.. but nothing has worked, so this is my last resort!
Get message " ------Is not a valid win32 application " Get this message from all my programs and applications.
View 6 Replies View RelatedWe have a new computer that came with Vista 64bit. We have Word 03 docs that we can't open and receive this error message: .doc is not a valid win32 application. What can we do to fix this so we can access our old documents? We have some of the same problems when trying to access files from the net that may be in Word format.
View 8 Replies View Relatedi started up my computer, then i noticed that some of my programs were messed... I got this for window live messanger: msnmsgr.exe is not a valid win32 application and it ALSO did the same this for firefox.. this never happend before...I am useing vista home.. and i just bought this computer..
View 4 Replies View RelatedI've been trying to download Itunes to my laptop and the end results are always the same that it's "not a valid Win32 application." Now I made sure when I downloaded it that it was for a pc not mac. And I also downloaded it 3 different times just in case something went wrong with the installing process.
View 5 Replies View Relatedthere must be many people who have moved all their mail from XP on one laptop to Vista mail on a new laptop. These two computers can see each other on the network. How can I easily move all history, contacts, folders etc from one to the other?
View 7 Replies View RelatedI continually receive a red, white, and grey alert window ---
Alert details: File - C:WINDOWSwml.exe
Threat: Abebot
"Possible Spyware infection has been detected on your computer by Security
System."
"To remove detected threat you need to update our PC-Antispyware protection."
"Click here to visit PC-Antispyware website"(link)
----- takes me to http://antispyware-reviews.biz/?wmid=4663&pwebmid=R3n1c2Bg8A
These boxes show up next, unshaded and "unclickable"
Clean, Rename, & Delete
Then another link
Update PC-Antispyware protection and remove detected threats
-----take me to same:
http://antispyware-reviews.biz/?wmid=4663&pwebmid=R3n1c2Bg8A
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Additionally, in the lower right hand corner I have a triangle icon states
which automatically populates a message: "Your computer is infected with
sypware! Windows has detected spyware infection on your PC. It is
recommended that you update your antispyware protection to prevent data loss.
Click here to download and
install the most up-to-date antispyware for you. Click here for more
information."
I have a Vista computer with the following Antivirus / spyware removal programs
- Eset NOD32 v2.7
- Spy bot search and destry
- SuperAntispyware
- Ad aware
- Windows defender
All the software is updated with the latest "definitions"
2 firewalls (1 windows firewall, 1.with the router)
Do I need more software like that to be safe?
I think this is too much software installed to just take care of virus and spyware threats. For it seems like virus is not soo big problem any more. Soo I am wondering isnt it possible to for Microsoft to make something "supersmart" to get rid of spy ware??
Can someone recommend a good spyware program for Vista 64? I've tried PCTOOLS Spy Doctor. It ran and found spyware and removed it, however when I turned the computer on next it had boot errors. I ended up having to work with HP(very good help) and reload Vista from scratch. I hadn't backed up yet, but there was nothing to lose as the computer was one day old, just lost time.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI just found out that one of the top anti spyware has support for 64 bit Vista !
Sunbelt Software is pleased to announce that CounterSpy 2.5 RC (build 1027) is now available for download:
Code: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/spyware/CounterSpy/CSC.2.5.1027.0.exe
System Requirements
Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 or higher IBM Compatible 400MHZ Computer with at least 128MB of RAM Windows 2000 Pro SP3 or greater, Windows XP (Pro, Home, Tablet, or Media), Windows 2003 Server (incl. SP1), Windows Vista 32-bit or 64-bit
200MB of available free space on your hard drive......
Recently I was infected with the dpevflbg Toolbar. I have Norton 360, Windows defender, and PC Tools Spyware Doctor. This malware got through and I am having trouble removing a couple of remaining issues. The toolbar itself is gone, however, along with the sluggish performance of my computer, I have a banner on almost every web page saying: "Warning possible spyware infection! Click here to scan your computer for spyware and adware" The target URL for the 'Click here' is protect.trustedantivirus.com...with some extra identifying back slashes: MTY4Nzc=/2/5993/ed=1/ex=1/h=10/zheltaya_hernya/ I have searched out removal methods and am unable to remove this extreemly annoying banner:mad:.
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